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Here it is the " Bibliography & web ". I have a huge personal & simbolic debt with the words that other individuals have found to pass their knowledge, to try to express something about their experiences. As others m i ght be interested in finding the ir precious knowledge, I include a bibliography to this paper. Where possible, in the bibliography a direct link is given from the titles to their downloadable version; no fees or registrations are required.

Here it is the chapter 25 " Conclusions & principles ". E ven if I did it using the history of physics as a metaphor, actually t here is no real need to prove with numbers & facts what reality is dramatically displaying in front of everyone since the time of our ancestors: the reciprocal connections between the essential quality of life of a person; the individual structure; the balance between body, soul, mind & inner world; the context & the physical place one lives in, the responsibility of the context on achieving general results.

Here it is the chapter 24 " Net positions ". Focusing on the net results involves the consideration of the way to reach them. A general misconception identifies the result with the sole goals, tending to reach them by any means necessary. In care-work, means are part of the goal themselves, just as we are part of the context.

Here is the chapter 23 " The socks philosophy ". During my work with both individuals & groups, I try my best to always follow the suggestions I learnt from my Latin professor : each single word has its own peculiar mean & translation. My challenge is to transfer & adapt the grammar of care-work to different contexts in order to foster new horizons, new points of view, to originate new projects & open new roads.

Here is the chapter 22 " Charming interpretations from the land of poets ". Terms like de-institutionalisation, right-based approach, ethics, rights-first & direct participation, leads to a simple, straight, big issue: the degree of reciprocity in handling responsibility between individuals-in-need, institutions, and third sector. 

Here is the chapter 21 " Innovative back in the 90s " When the fostered “bright-new” looks amazingly retro, one might search for real innovation at a deeper level. In the inner world. New reflections might sound useful. If not innovative in some degrees. To find something innovative, sometimes it is worth looking backward in history.

As promised, a new page with new materials is now available on the blog. T here is always an “AoB” as the last point in every serious agenda. It contains those topics that were not included in the previous items, which are highlighted , inspired & generated in the course of work. There are many things that attract me for their beauty: between others, the fruit in a basket, the spice markets, the sweets hidden in the darkness of a shop, the shells on a beach, a field of flowers, & many more... The AoB page is intended to offer evidence to various materials which I find impressive, & which I consider worth sharing with a wider audience. The AoB page offers: thesis, essays, reports which I received &/or find on my way pictures & comments on group-work sessions collateral projects photo-galleries & videos

Here it is the chapter 20 " The other in me drinks thee, or the grammar of desire ". In every profession of care, t he offer is to handle the way the inner law of the individual works. While the symptoms speak on behalf of their aesthetical representation, so to speak.   It is fundamental to dis-learn the over-structured cultural categories, labels, prejudices.

Here it is the chapter 19 " Crisis, whatever it means ". It happens to hear that we are passing a time of economical crisis, which causes social emergency. These assertions are not completely true, to be very generous. It is amazing what one can find when exploring the official data from the "counter-part", the economical institutions.

Here it is the chapter 18 " The later, the louder ".   In this brief ride across the history of physics, some useful elements for the debate around the care-giving approaches already came through : w hat our ancestors knew on circularity ; the principle of ine rtia & the cause-effect ratio from Spinoza enlightening the concpet of chronicity; Newton theories about the interrelation between bodie s.

Here it is the chapter 17 " May your chains sit lightly upon you ". The various declinations of the de-institutionalisation principles, (concept of flexicurity; right based approach...) gain open new perspectives by fixing the prerequisites for a cultural change to start from within the inner world. In his book "I fought the law", Dan Kieran wrote that «… the whole point of rights is that they are ours to begin with…»

Here it is the chapter 16 " Avoiding the trap: when more is not necessarily the better ". The evolution of physics kept on with quantum & particle theories, which gifted us with other vivid examples. One of those regards the concept of energy. When energy is applied to the electrons, they speed up.

Here it is the chapter 15 " What one can really say about reality ". According to Einstein's theory of relativity, simultaneity is not an absolute property between events : what is simultaneous in one frame of reference will not necessarily be simultaneous in another.   The terms in which we figure it out, makes reality real.

Here it is the chapter 14 " A cultural position ". Without a cultural assumption concerning the process of awareness & the effort toward an inner consciousness, all words risk to sound quite empty.  The E=mc2 approach suggests that the context & the person are closely related. Their way is reciprocal, & their mutual influence is exponential. The context is everywhere. The world is not only an hoister, it is also a never ending setting...

Here it is the chapter 13 " E=mc2 ". Einstein's formula is quite known: E = m c 2 . In the formula, 'E' is the energy, 'm' is the mass, & 'c' is the speed of light. It is dimensionally consistent, & does not depend on any specific system of measurement.   In physics, the formula is known as the concept of mass/energy . As this formula applies to the universe, it might as well be applied to care work.

Here it is chapter 12 " Nothing is absolute, but certain ".   In 1905 Einstein redefined the concept of contemporaneity of events on the base of what is really measurable, & n othing wa s absolute anymore.   What it is interesting in the theory of general relativity is that once a rule is given, it has to be valid no matter the system one lives in.

Here is the chapter 11 " On reciprocity ". The reciprocity is one of those magical terms which are self-meaning, but also which are mostly misconceived.   As I am interested to explore the magic of the relational dynamics, any magical word is surely welcomed. 

H ere is the chapter 10 " Illusion of neutrality ". When two persons follow a common relation of care, such as one asking for help & the other is supposed with some supplying, the relation will have a common ground but it is due to have different interpretations. These interpretations are true for themselves, but not necessary for them both. They might be parallel, not correlated. Each observant has different perceptions regarding the same relation, while the form of the perceptions remains inside of a changing-while-mutually-common-agreed linguistic codes. To make a “neutral” relation, their perceptions should become explicit simultaneously . This doesn't imply what each will do out of it, in anyway. And it is fairly impossible to happen. The illusion of neutrality. So naif...

Here is the chapter 9 " The impact of silent rank onto people positions ". The impact of the silent & unconscious rank is evident when two persons settle two distinct positions (one asking for help & care, while the other is supposed having help-care to offer) concerning the same object (a request of care), which is supposed to have its own entity.

Here is the chapter 8 " Ideas without substance ". It is very different to know something as an act of knowledge, or as a result of direct experience. For this reason, I use to tell to my trainees that mostly they do not have any direct idea of what it means what they are talking about.

here is the chapter 7 " invariable absolutes: ether, economy, efficiency ". Newton defined the correlation between corps under a rigorous causal & deterministic point of view. The invariable absolute was the ether, something intangible but able to define all the relationships. If we substitute the word “ether” with “economy”, we can probably have a complete sentence as well.

Here is chapter 5 " Re-visions ". The subject is one, & by working on it, any individual can develop general movements which apply to all other situations. Centuries af ter Coep ernicus & Tolomeus , Wittgenstein wrote these exact words which I of te n quote : « …again & again the individual case turns out to be unimportant, but the possibility of each individual case discloses something about the essence of the world… » . From one to one.

Here is chapter 6 " Individuality, identity, innovation, chronicity. A short story ". The individuality as a dimension of physical time were not present in Galileo: it was introduced by Newton. To focus on it, & on the dimension of identity & innovation, toward a definition of chronicity, we will use the story that one of my tutors told me during my apprenticeship .

here it is the chapter 4: Nothing is just a case : from Plato to Aristotle, from Master Oogway to Jedi knight. For Plato, the ge neral order of things & cycles didn't come out of case. “Nothing is just a case ” is also the kind of sentence that Master Oogway used to teach to Shifu & Po during the "kung-fu pand a" training sessions .