Vol. 3 No. 1 (2021): January - June 2021
Research hypotheses

Practice of Kindness: Integrated Gestaltic Intervention on the Phenomenon of Bullying

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  • Milena Mazzara,
  • Lorena Perrone,
  • Sebastiana Cipponeri,
  • Letizia Cacciabaudo,
  • Angela Ciulla,
  • Salvatore Renda
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32069/pj.2021.1.101

Published 2021-03-11

Keywords

  • bullying,
  • gestalt,
  • intervention

How to Cite

Mazzara, M., Perrone, L., Cipponeri, S., Cacciabaudo, L., Ciulla, A., & Renda, S. (2021). Practice of Kindness: Integrated Gestaltic Intervention on the Phenomenon of Bullying. Phenomena Journal - International Journal of Psychopathology, Neuroscience and Psychotherapy, 3(1), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.32069/pj.2021.1.101
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Abstract

Bullying involves many preteens, engraving, sometimes to a considerable extent, on their personal serenity and balance on their relationship. It is a phenomenon that cannot be reduced to the overbearing behavior of a single boy, but has a multidimensional configuration, that involves the whole group in which it occurs, characterized mainly by prevarication dynamics. There are several anti-bullying programs put into action, but none of them uses the integrated Gestalt approach, which I believe may be a significant orientation both for reading the phenomenon and for the intervention of the intra-group dynamics. The postulate is to create a methodological group device that affects the phenomenon, through several specific steps, with the transversal objective of enhancing in all partecipants awareness, responsibility, empathy and self-efficacy. The different steps of intervention are conducted within the relational field, at the border - contact I-you, in which the individual experiences a totality of coexisting phenomena that interact and influence each other: the experiences. Mind-body experience is the knowledge foundation and passes through the different levels of experience. The contact cycle will mark the process's explication times, both inside the specific meeting (intra-cycle), and in the entire path (inter-cycle), in a continuous sequence of backgrounds and figures.

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