The Art of Care
Media & Documents
An archive to share: my certificates, my curriculum, the press coverage, the pages of the book “ALOHA Breath of Life! Not just cancer” and the radio interviews. Material gathered over the years and recovered, so that the testimony stays alive.
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My certificates
Courses, Seminars and Conferences
To share: all the material relating to the AIOM and FAVO conferences, the seminars with Dr. Patch Adams and Dr. Brian Weiss, the course and literary festival Women's Fiction Festival in Matera, and much more.
- 01 3rd Conference “Clinical practice and relationship in oncology patient care” Open
- 02 Women's Fiction Festival — Matera Letteratura Open
- 03 Conference “Clinical practice and relationship in oncology patient care” Open
- 04 11th National Congress of Medical Oncology — Milan, October 2009 Open
- 05 Letter of attendance — CAN DO IT, London Open
- 06 “My story, your story as testimony” — degree thesis by Désirée Poletti Open
- 07 Conference “The Art of Caring” Open
- 08 Cultural Therapy Open
- 09 Writing-on-art course — “The art of words, the words of art” Open
- 10 Seminar with Dr. Patch Adams — “Healing with joy” Open
- 11 Clowning course certificate Open
- 12 “The Voices of the Body” — tools to feel better with yourself and others Open
- 13 2011 Scholarship — Women & Health Open
- 14 Sharing and Communicating Open
- 15 Seminar with Dr. Brian Weiss — Past Life Regression Therapy Open
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Curriculum
With Love & Energy, the impossible becomes… POSSIBLE!Barbara Mariani
Barbara Mariani went through the experience of cancer in 2000, 2005 and 2008: thanks to her enthusiasm, she never stopped dreaming.
I don't pre-occupy myself — I take care of myself.
Featured in the press
- Corriere della Sera
- Anteprima Corriere della Sera
- Anna
- Starbene
- La Provincia di Varese
- La Prealpina
Online press
- PANORAMA.IT — “My life after cancer” (2012)
- IL GIORNALE.IT — blog by Gioia Locati (2012)
- 2RIGHE.COM
- VARESENEWS
- LaProvinciadiVarese.it
Association magazines
- Attivecomeprima Onlus
- Ailar — Merate branch
- Lega dei Tumori (Cancer League)
Conferences and testimonies
- Testimonial for the 2010 calendar of “La Lampada di Aladino” Onlus
- Pio X clinic — relationship in oncology patient care (2008 and 2009)
- Oncology Patient Day — FAVO, Italian Federation of Oncology Volunteer Associations (2007, 2008, 2009)
- Women's Fiction Festival — Matera Letteratura (September 2008)
- AIOM, Italian Association of Medical Oncology (2009) — “Theatre as care for the Soul”
- ESMO, European Society for Medical Oncology (2010)
- “I CAN DO IT” conference, London — Louise Hay (September 2010)
- “The power of emotions” — press conference, CAOS Onlus, Varese (2011)
- “Cultural Therapy” conference — CAOS and Kiwanis, Varese (2011)
- “Women & Health” — CAOS Onlus, Varese (2011)
- Featured in the psychology thesis “The representation of the bodily self”, Dr. Désirée Poletti (2011)
- CIRCOLOQUADRO writing-on-art course, supported by Scuola Holden — “The art of words, the words of art” (2011)
- Seminar with Dr. Patch Adams — “Healing with joy” (2011)
- Clown-therapy course (2011)
- DVD project “Atelier”, with the radiotherapy team of the Milan Cancer Institute (2011)
- Training course, IRCCS Milan Foundation — “The Voices of the Body” (2011)
- CAOS — “Let's have tea”, annual meeting of the Castellanza Breast Unit and Multimedica
- Autobiography “ALOHA Breath of Life! Not just cancer” on oncologicronici.it (Narrative Medicine) and aiiao.it (Italian Association of Oncology Nurses)
- Seminar with Dr. Eric Pearl — “The Essence of Healing, Reconnective Healing, The Reconnection” (2014)
On television and radio
- LA7 — “L'infedele” (2006)
- RAIUNO — “Festa Italiana” (May 2007, March and May 2008)
- Telelombardia — “TG Sera” (March 2009)
- CANALE5 — “Mattino 5” with Barbara D'Urso, testimonial “Look Good Feel Better” (May 2009)
- RAI radio — “L'uomo della notte” by Maurizio Costanzo (December 2008)
- La7Gold — “Aria Pulita” (2011)
- Rete55 Varese — news feature on Cultural Therapy (2011)
- RAI3 — “TelecamereSalute”, DVD project “Atelier” (2011)
- Radio24 — Il Sole 24 Ore, testimonial “Look Good Feel Better” (2012)
- PRIMOPIANO ITALIA TV — EXPOVILLAGE Varese “Voci di Donne”, testimonial CAOS Onlus (2014)
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What they say about me
Press, institutions and friends
Barbara represents women, all women, and yet never loses her own identity: she has a face, a name that sticks in your mind at once, loves and friends who recognize her and feel her uniqueness. Barbara is me as I write, she is the woman now reading and whom I may never meet. Barbara lived through a terrible experience and knew how to speak of it; she shaped it and, without mystifying it or taking the pain and uncertainty from the memories, turned it into encouragement, sharing and example. An example of how one can discover that life is wonderfully precious, of how one can sense that the soul exists. Whether we call it energy, soul or God, it exists and comes out when, in spite of everything, we choose to smile.
I have two names and two identities: MariaGiovanna Luini is a writer, Giovanna Gatti is a breast surgeon and science communicator at the IEO in Milan. MariaGiovanna and Giovanna came to know Barbara by rereading her story many times, seeing her through the eyes of those who love her, of those who have met her a few times and of those who are part of her daily life.
Barbara's story will travel far, it will touch conscience and imagination, it will deliver a message we all so badly need. Barbara lives, she shows us much of her life and teaches us without heaviness, but with the most crystalline reality. And we watch, reflect, read. We take home a meaning, a gesture, a memory that will come with us. Among other things, I will carry this with me: “life is a mirror — if you smile, it smiles back”.
MariaGiovanna Luini — from the book “ALOHA Breath of Life! Not just cancer”
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From the book “ALOHA”
Science, Art, Communication and Solidarity · Think, Say, Do
Barbara's book is therapeutic. It is so for everyone. Not only for those who are “ill”, but for each of us, because it answers the deep need to rediscover, in ourselves and in our lives, the authenticity of the ideas of health, well-being and living.
Barbara leads us with simplicity and, at the same time, depth and enthusiasm on a journey that passes through a collective fear, utterly human and useless. Useless, yes. The fear of illness and of death are perhaps the mind's latest deception, to protect us from a far greater and unconsciously unacceptable fear: the fear of living.
To reclaim illness, to take it into one's own life, to explore its deep meaning, to embrace it and go on living has a fundamental value for the human being. It means rediscovering the deep meaning of one's existence, finding one's own place in the world, living in a new harmony made of awareness, responsibility and joy.
The most precious message Barbara conveys in this book is to learn to face not only cancer but life: ordinary, everyday life — the one in which, believing that being “healthy” is enough to be happy, we experience each day a weariness of living that sometimes it is the onset of illness itself that “heals”.
“Here and now is my life!”
Excerpts from the prologue by Elisa Cerruti, founder of LatteRhum&Miele and of Reiki in Culla
The dedicationThis sixth reprint was made possible “thanks to the Contribution” of my father and of the friends who support me.
The story of the anthropologist and the African children
Ubuntu
One day, an anthropologist proposed a game to some children of a tribe. He placed a basket full of fruit near a tree and told them that whoever got there first would win all the fruit.
When he gave the signal, all the children took one another by the hand and ran together, then sat in a circle to enjoy the promised prize. Surprised, the anthropologist asked why they had avoided competing, and the children answered together: “UBUNTU… how can one of us be happy if all the others are sad?”.
UBUNTU, in sub-Saharan African culture, is an ethic, an ideology:
“I am because We are”
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Radio Interviews
With great pleasure I share my emotions with you through these recordings, hoping they reach your Heart and give you so much Energy. MAHALO.
RadioBlaBla — Milan, 3 November 2015
Presentation of the book “ALOHA Breath of Life! Not just cancer” on Radio BlaBla, with Francesca Scherini.