Metodo Teatrico® proposes interventions capable of involving all the actors that make up the prison reality:
Executives, Penitentiary Police, Educators, Healthcare Personnel, Inmates.

Metodo Teatrico® offers a common training course, which has as its central points:

• strengthen the dynamics that lead to effective communication and conscious relationship;
• always carve out on the individual needs of the recipients;
• be structured in distinct paths in line with the objectives and characteristics of each subject/category involved.

With its characteristics of flexibility and adaptability to contexts, Metodo Teatrico® is a facilitator of relational processes in the prison environment by encouraging cooperation, collaboration, interaction, and reduction of conflict between all components.

The training projects are often the result of a co-planning between the professionals of the Penitentiary Institute and the experts of the Eleusis Group. The goal is to build targeted interventions that have immediate results, also aimed at planning integrated projects between prison, cultural, and professional realities.

The Eleusis Association has ongoing collaborations with: 

• ​Provveditorato alle carceri di Lazio, Abruzzo e Molise.
  

• Casa Circondariale di Roma - Regina Coeli;
• Casa Circondariale e reclusione di Larino (CB);
• Casa Circondariale di Rieti;
• Casa di reclusione di Paliano (FR);
• Casa Circondariale di Lanciano (CH);
• III Casa Circondariale di Rebibbia;
• Istituto Penale Minorile di Casal del Marmo;
• Casa Circondariale femminile di Rebibbia.

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Related articles:
"Millesettecento motivi per non sentirci poi tanto migliori"
Article by M. Bellizi in the April 11, 2020 edition of "L'Osservatore Romano"

Training courses for Commanders and Directors of the Penitentiary Institutes of Lazio, Abruzzo, and Molise
(a project of the Ministry of Justice - Provveditorato Lazio, Abruzzo and Molise)

Intervention that proposes the knowledge and experimentation of Metodo Teatrico® as an effective practice for the enhancement of transversal skills such as: self-awareness, empathic communication, expressive coherence, flexibility, assertiveness, conflict management, problem-solving, team working.
Fundamental skills for building the professional community and the relational atmosphere.

Courses for inmates:
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Standard Laboratories 
- develop knowledge, comparison, experimentation, sharing of emotions and feelings;
- encourage the gradual creation of the group;
- improve personal expressiveness and verbal, non-verbal, and para-verbal languages;
- teach the conscious use of communicative and relational approaches based on attention to oneself and the other;
- favor listening and self-listening, welcoming and putting into play, non-judgment, overcoming the limit;
- encourage collaboration, the pursuit, and the achievement of common goals.

Special Laboratories
(for second-level prisoners - risk, high surveillance, surveillance on sight)
- encourage the creation of a space for listening and welcoming;
- favor collaboration and sharing;
- enhance the person by encouraging the development of attention to oneself and the other;
- promote communication and expressiveness while respecting the peculiarities of each one (potential and limits).

 
Emotional literacy workshops for underage inmates
- pursue the discovery, understanding, and management of individual emotional baggage;
- experience sharing and comparison;
- enhance the expressive and communicative skills of young people on an intrapersonal and interpersonal level;
- favor the prosocial relationship and cooperative learning.
 
Distance meetings
During the period of the Covid-19 Emergency, remote training methods were also used through an IT platform managed by internal staff used by inmates from the Second, Third and Fourth sections of the Regina Coeli prison.