This initiative is a tripartite collaboration between Studio Atelierista (ParamitaLab Italy), Association Méditation dans l'Enseignement (AMLE, France) and Erasmus+ as co-funder. AMLE, serving as the host organisation, brings expertise in mindfulness-based methodologies and social-emotional learning, co-designing workshops, methodological resources and network access to advance intersectional and inclusive TL practice. Erasmus+ provides co-funding for mobility activities, enabling educators and adult learners affiliated with Studio Atelierista to engage in job shadowing, training assignments, and structured courses within the institutional context of AMLE in France.
This synergistic partnership aligns Studio Atelierista's creative residency program mission to promote social transformation through critical pedagogy, embodied pedagogical paradigms, and social art; AMLE's expertise in mindfulness-based methodologies and social-emotional learning, and Erasmus+'s institutional mandate to support transnational pedagogical innovation. Together, the collaboration creates a robust platform for sharing evidence-based strategies in transformative learning (TL), while operationalising shared commitments to equity, participatory design, and systemic change in European adult education. The structure of the partnership emphasises the integration of mindfulness practices with critical consciousness-raising pedagogies, thereby bridging the theoretical and applied dimensions of TL to respond to contemporary socio-educational challenges. Through Erasmus+ structural support, the project also ensures scalability and accessibility, prioritising underrepresented demographics in its blended mobility activities and advocacy initiatives. On the other hand, new projects will be submitted as a follow-up to this initiative in the second round of Erasmus+ in October this year.
*Erasmus+ Project nr. 2021-1-IT02-KA122-ADU-000017979 is co-funded with the support of the European Commission.
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Paris team
Candice E. Marro -Paris host
is a qualified psychotherapist, craniosacral therapist, certified mindfulness teacher, and author. She has impacted contemplative education for children and teenagers aged 5-18 by co-developing the P.E.A.C.E.® program, a 10-week mindfulness intervention to enhance prosocial skills. Additionally, she promotes regenerative education in higher education, integrating mindfulness and eco-therapy. Marro is the founder of “Méditation Laïque pour l'Éducation” and directs Mindful Education France and Quebec.
https://meditation-enseignement.com/
Arawana Hayashi
Arawana’s work as a choreographer, performer, and educator is deeply sourced in awareness-based collaborative creative process. She is a co-founder and senior faculty of the Presencing Institute where she heads the creation of Social Presencing Theater. She brings her background in performance artmaking and meditation to this embodied presence practice that cultivates healthy and compassionate relationships in organizations, schools, and communities.
Since 1980 Arawana has taught meditation and creative process. She is the author of Social Presencing Theater: The Art of Making a True Move published by PI Press.
https://arawanahayashi.com/ - https://www.u-school.org/spt
Ricardo Dutra
is a social designer, researcher and educator working and collaborating in diverse global contexts. He holds a MFA in Transdisciplinary Design from Parsons School of Design, New York, and a PhD in Design for Transformative Education from Monash University, Melbourne. Ricardo is currently a Lecturer at the Department of Art & Media, Aalto University, Finland.
https://www.ricardo-dutra.com
Agathe Peltereau-Villeneuve
facilitates collective change work through social and embodied arts in the corporate, community and educational sectors. She is a Social Presencing teacher and practitioner, and a Visual Presencing practitioner. Trained in Theory U, she offers creative sensing experiences and journeys that open spaces of resonance, nurture deep dialogues and create conditions for change in groups and systems.
Anne-Sophie Dubanton
enables positive change through connecting networks and holding transformative spaces and programs. She builds on her experience of being an entrepreneur, a mindfulness teacher and Theory U facilitator and trainer.
Marina Seghetti
works at the intersection of capacity building, social art, and outreach. She designs creative spaces that foster collaboration and positive change. As a consultant, trainer, and coach, she guides individuals and organizations in realizing their transformative potential.
https://paramitalab.org/
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