In this article we report an excerpt of the radio interview in which Valeria Furnari, a psychomotricist working in our association, participated. The whole interview revolves around the theme of Psychomotricity in education and prevention, explaining what it is and reporting on various concrete experiences in which it has been applied. At the end of this short article you can find the link to listen to the whole interview, in which Valeria recounts several interesting aspects of this rich and surprising world.
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G: What is psychomotricity?
V: I'll immediately answer you by quoting one of my university professors, Professor Nicolodi, who at the time of our training in educational and preventive psychomotricity, answered the question "what is psychomotricity?": "Life is discovered by living, love is discovered by loving, and psychomotricity is discovered by playing". So you understand well how psychomotricity, more than to be defined, is to be experienced, to be played. It is certainly easier actually to say what psychomotricity is not. Psychomotricity, and specifically the educational psychomotricity I deal with, is not therapy (because therapy is the responsibility of health professionals, the neuropsychomotricists), it is not gymnastics, it is not physical education, it is not exercise, it is not the space of the playroom. What is it? It is a spontaneous play activity through which children have the opportunity to use the tool they master better than anyone else, i.e. the game itself, and they use it to experiment, to experiment, to communicate with adults, with peers, to relate, to express their needs, desires, fears, and struggles. We could say that psychomotricity is a sort of emotional gymnasium where, through play, the child experiences himself, experiences space and others, and has the opportunity to process and metabolise the experiences that are part of his growth path, and the experiences that need to be processed are not always positive, they are not always simple, and the child can do this within a playful dimension that accompanies him, supports him and gives him security.
The interview goes on to talk about how the psychomotor approach varies according to the age of the participants, recounting the experience of using psychomotricity in a parent training course and answering other interesting questions.
You can listen to the full interview at this link!
https://bit.ly/INTERVISTA_valeria