Komunikativa
Hubadova 8, SI-1000 Ljubljana
Managed byZavod G.G.A.V.
Alenka Vidrih, Programme Director
Phone386 (0) 70 502 007
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Mission
Their main goal is to use the potential of creativity through theatre experience and their motto is "Life is art and art is life." They seek to the healthy development and functioning of society which is enabled by unimpeded, genuine, authentic communication of the individual. The Komunikativa is supporting and training the educators to give other people support or to lead, to inspire and motivate them for working and living. They as well work with those who work with children and adults with special needs such as people with serious health problems or developmental mental disorders or physical disabilities. Their practice is exercised in the field of prevention with an improvement of skills of integral expression and communication, and is important both for individuals and their working environment.
Education
Komunikativa believes that the performing creativity of the individual or group supports in the development and psychosocial health. Therefore they use theatre-therapy, or in particular the Performative method AV (Ars Vitae) where a group of individuals through the drama process deals with current life or professional situations. The AV Method was developed by Alenka Vidrih and is a holistic way of gaining new knowledge where experiences are gained spontaneously and cognisance remains deep and for a very long time. The method can be used as an applicative method for working with people, by balancing and creating the creative atmosphere, by the professionalisation of relations and as an empirical method of treatment of educational and life contents.
Komunikativa runs several educational programs: acting school, creative neutralisation of stress, theatre groups, personal public presentation, team tuning, AV coaching, rhetoric etc. The team tuning training in indirect manner balances and neutralises relationships within a specific group. It is specially useful for people who work together.
Komunikativa organises workshops for all generations like Teen Theatre Lab in Šentjur Youth Centre and creative theatre workshops for seniors Images of my World that were held in Slovene Ethnographic Museum in 2011.
Cooperation
The institute G.G.A.V. - Komunikativa Group cooperates with the public, government, corporate and private organisational structures and organises activities all over Slovenia and abroad. It creates and supports cooperation with other European institutions to share experience about art therapy. It cooperated with Association Theatrales (France), Middlesbrough Council, Department of Social Care (Great Britain), The Home of Social Services, Bratislava (Slovakia) and many others. The organisation wants to share the AV Method with other similar organisations working on the common problem but in different environments and countries. It seeks partnerships as opportunities to offer, meet and share different experiences and approaches.
International projects
Komunikativa Group is a partner of ISIO, a network of counselling centres that offer free information and advice about education for adults. They participated in the CMEPIUS's project Grundtvig in the years of 2004–2007: Train in the Trainer! and 2007–2010: Lets Act! The latter consisted of a festival with the participation of various groups with special needs in Ljubljana and workshops and round table discussions on the methodology of theatre-therapy in Pordenone (Italy) and Bratislava (Slovakia).
