Trascending words
Tue, Nov 04
|Theatre of Milan-Opera Prison
final performance of "Corso di Alta Formazione sulla Comunicazione non violente. Le parole possono essere muri oppure finestre" with detainees of the Milan-Opera Prison
Time & Location
Nov 04, 2025, 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Theatre of Milan-Opera Prison, Via Camporgnago, 40, 20141 Milano MI, Italia
About the event
Reservations required by 19th October: send an email to valentina.cerutti@unicatt.it or click here
The performance, held under the academic and scientific direction of Professor Elisabetta Matelli, represents a moment of deepl reflection and growth on the ever-relevant theme of nonviolent communication. It emerges from the reworking of personal experiences shared by the detainees who took part in the project.
The Course exlored rhetorical question with ethical, relational, psychological and legal implications. Partecipants were guided in recreating scenes through role-playing exercises aimed at representing and undertanding those moments that either fuel or defuse violent form of communication. Through shared reflection and pratical experimentation, they investigated how words give shape to thoughts, how thoughts can in turn be transformed by certain words, and how our actions may themselves become unspoken words.
Scientific direction
Elisabetta Matelli - Full Professor of Rhetoric and Forms of Persuasion
Speakers
Mara Gorli - Full Professor of Psychology of Relationships
Maria Teresa Galli - Researcher in Rhetoric and Forms of Persuasion
Lorenzo Volpi Lutteri - Actor and theatre trainer
Auretta Sterrantino - Research fellow, playwright and actress
Lisa Zanzottera - Author and actress