Music and Empathy in Jakarta, workshop 2

Workshop n. 2

Wednesday, December 2nd, 10-12 am

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE EMPATHETIC?

Participants:

11 Kids from Kdm

Trainers:

Sara and Sotar, Roy, Mette, Mia, Mara

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Main message:

An empathetic person is someone who can share another person's feelings. 

Objectives:

- to understand other person's feelings

- to work on Empathetic behaviours

 Tools that we will need:

- an A3 sheet and a pen

- guitar

- projector (Roy)

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Activities:

- Song: The little green frog (two voices)

(Team building activity)

(5 min)

- de- briefing on what we did the previous day

(5 min)

- Ask the kids to name as many emotions as they can, and write it down.

Then name those emotions and ask the children to make the face expression and body language to show it.

(To collect their knowledge)

(5 min)

- Roy activities on how to understand other person's feelings.

(Tentative:

How the emotional brain works and mirror neurons (slides)

Have the kids been taught about Self Awareness? i.e. Are able to recognise their own feelings and thoughts , and importantly, understand how thoughts determine feelings and actions?   It is good if they understand this because its the basis to understand how others feel and think.

One idea that comes to mind is to show pictures of faces with different expressions and have the kids try to see what emotions the person in the picture is feeling.

We could also have them make faces of different feelings and then others have to guess what feeling they are expressing.

For conflict resolution I have some slides for kids to explain about how sometimes our emotions (such as anger) are a FALSE alarm, based on thought that doesn't reflect reality.  (e.g.  She bumped into me on purpose)

(30 min)

- Octopus game

(Releasing energies  game)

One child is in the middle of the room and is the octopus.

The other children are "fishes", at one side of the room.

At the start, the fishes try to reach the other side of the room without being touched by the octopus.

Who will be touched become an octopus and will help him for the second round, sitting down where they have being tagged, and moving the arms.

The last fish will be the octopus for the next time.

(10 min)

    - break -

- Mirror game 

(To improve empathic observation)

With faster music, in pairs, move, one in front of the other, like in a mirror.

Then, exchange roles.

Exchange the feelings.

(20 min)

- Rhythmic circle (led by them)

(To have fun, foster self esteem and improve concentration)

(10 min)

-Listen carefully to Sara playing (Tartini's Abandoned Dido)

What story do you imagine?

Which feelings are inside the music?

Sara tells the original story.

What would you have done or said to her, if Dido had been your friend?

Play the music again

(20 min)

- Musica musica song

(Final song)

(2 min)

Jakarta post, today

Music and Empathy in Jakarta, workshop 1

Workshop n.1

Tuesday, December 1st, 2-4 pm

A NEW WORD: EMPATHY

Participants:

11 Kids of Kdm.

Trainers:

Sara and Sotar, Mette, Mia, Mara, Roy

Goal:

To improve the understanding of empathy and foster authenticity 

Main message:

Empathy is the capacity to place oneself in another's position, the ability to feel and share another person’s emotions.

Objectives:

- Improve and develop vocabulary on emotions

- to learn what empathy is

 Tools that we will need:

- a bunny/bear easy to hold and soft to throw (Sotar)

- a guitar (Sotar )

- seven sheets, each with the name of an emotion on it (happy, sad, angry, calm, anxious, worried, enthusiastic) (Mara)

- banner of emotions (to be hanged at the end of the session) (Sotar)

- banner of golden rules. (To be hanged at the beginning) (Sotar)

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Activities:

- Song: The little green frog

(Team building activity)

(5 min)

- Greetings, introduction of Trainers and workshops

(10 min)

- Dance: 

(To enhance authenticity)

Dance freely on the different music that Sara will play (panjang umurnya, adagio from Vivaldi's winter, jakarta fantasy, tarantella).

Ask which music they prefered to dance, and what emotion they felt while dancing.

(10 min)

- How do you feel today game

(To share how each participant feels)

Show on the bunny/bear how do you feel now. The others have to guess.

5 min

- Rhythmic circle (led by Sara only)

(To have fun and improve concentration)

(5 min)

- Active listening game

(To improve empathy)

Make pairs, one in front of the other, one talks about something that is important for her/hem, and the other has to listen very carefully.

Then exchange the roles.

Share their feelings in the group.

Sotar asks if they felt empathy. 

(Empathy is the capacity to place oneself in another's position, the ability to feel and share another person’s emotions.)

(30 min).

     - break - (15-20 min)

- Mirror game 

(To improve empathic observation)

With violin soft music, in pairs, move, one in front of the other, like in a mirror.

Then, exchange roles.

Exchange the feelings.

(20 min)

- sit in a circle and discuss about empathy: Sotar will ask if they know this word and collect what they know about it.

Then they will talk about the lyrics of The little green frog: is it empathetic to become all upset when one person is behaving naughty?

what do the frogs do later on?

What do you do when the mood around is tense and difficult?

(On empathy)

(20 min)

- game: sara plays a music and each of the kids and trainers run to the emotion they feel

(To develop authenticity and self awareness, and check their mood)

(5 min)

- Musica musica song

(Final song)

(2 min)

Music for a change, in Alessandria, 29th November, 2015, 5 pm

Recital by Sara Michieletto (violin) and Giorgio Schiavon (saxophone)

Music and emotions to tackle the climate change.

Music and the climate change: let's take action! Jakarta, December 5th, 2015

The humanity of Idomeneo

Idomeneo is a thunderstorm of emotions.

Mozart describes with all the colors of the human feelings how the honest king is anguished and stormy against the gods.

Listen to the aria "Fuor del mar" to get an idea on how he depicts the inner emotions with sofisticated psychology.

In this aria Idomeneo, after the shipwreck, sings: "outside the sea, I have a sea inside of me. And the second is more threatening than the first."

In the music we can hear the waves of both the seas and the anguish and anger of the king.

Awesome melodies, amazing harmonies, surprising chromatisms, sudden changes of tonalities bring the player and the listener to the archetips world, with magnificient beauty.

And Mozart could not end his "opera seria" with the implicit optimism glowing on all his operas: Neptune says "Love won. Innocence is rewarded ".

Optimism in the Magic Flute

The Magic Flute, by W.A. Mozart

Teatro la Fenice, October 2015

" ...in the Magic Flute the difficulties of Pamina and Tamino to reach the love dream are the image of the moving optimism of Mozart, even if in a deep misery.

They are his irrational and sublime word of trust on the goodness of the human kind and on the positivity of life."

Massimo Mila