PLAY AND CREATIVITY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSAL AND INCLUSIVE LEARNING
● Sound stimulation project
METHODOLOGY
After twelve years of work, development and research, we have created an innovative inclusive methodology whose main focus is the development of Play and Creativity as central axes for the development of an integral, universal and inclusive learning. We call our methodology the Sound Stimulation Project, and its objective is to provide a wide range of strategies and concrete tools to improve the quality of life of all people regardless of their age, physical, sensory and/or cognitive condition.
As a result of systematic work in different territories and communities in Chile and other countries, together with research, measurements carried out to date and the positive results observed, we have managed to clearly establish the three fundamental axes that define our methodology, which are: BODY, SOUND and LINK: These are the pillars that articulate, sustain and shape our methodological matrix, which allows us to create our innovative educational programes.
We use techniques from sound and somatic practices to replace spoken language, as far as possible and necessary. The aim of this is to generate new codes of understanding that allow students to reduce the anxiety and frustration that verbal language often generates, in order to be able to communicate through intuition, listening, interaction and play.
BODY
The word soma comes from the Greek and means live body. Somatic practices gather methods oriented to the conscious-body from the perspective of the personal experience. Somatic education is the consciousness of the body in movement.
Moshé Feldenkrais
Bodywork is approached from a somatic vision, which means, the body is the subject perceived in first person. This perspective supports the acceptance of integration through being in movement, strengthening with this view the experiences as a phenomenon of sensibilization and consciousness of ourselves as a body.
The practices we propose are based on an activation of the body as a subject, being conscious of it, through touching, making contact. This tactile practice brings us to the present in connection with a subject-body, without the dichotomy of mind and body.
SOUND & LISTENING
Deep listening is a way of listening incorporating all possible ways, listening no matter what you are doing. It explores the nature of involuntary listening, and voluntary and selective listening, cultivating in this way, a greater consciousness of the sound surroundings, inside and outside, promoting experimentation, improvisation, collaboration, play development and other social and creative skills, vitals for personal growth and community life.
Pauline Oliveros
Sound as a bridge of connection with the other and the environment, vibration as a common element and communication thread between bodies that feel and resound, it is being involved completely in deep listening and the effect that the sound has on us.
It is the senses that allow us to connect with the world and with the other, from this, we work with listening and with the experience of being touched by sound. The activation of listening as a determining sensor of discrimination, present, attention and focus, added to the sound touch, allow us to enhance the effect that our sessions have.
BOND
You will find out that the most interesting people are the ones that don’t fit in the average box; However, they will do what they need to do: their own ones.
Dra. Temple Grandin.
We put special emphasis in accompanying our participants from the acceptance and the profound respect for what they are. Accepting this way the integrity of each person in a reliable relationship. The purpose is to create unique spaces of trust, where we observe and share from the inside of each person involved. In this way, we create strong bonds of confidence, self-cognition, contention and mutual acceptance building an awaited space very well treasured by each participant.