The Sican Network
Buzzword “synergy”
Project partners
meet and take stock
Coach Luana Landolina:
“The goal is to learn to walk alone
by creating connections between the realities of the area.”
Sicani Villages partners meet to take stock of what has been done so far and to make plans for the future. Two coaching meetings have been held in recent days: the first in Filaga, the only hamlet of Prizzi, at the Terra@terra hostel and the second in Giuliana, in the hall of the former municipal house. Meetings that will continue until October and that from the mountains to the sea, will touch the different Sicilian localities involved in the network.
“It is necessary,” says Luana Landolina, coach of Sicani Villages, “to understand what we want to do in the immediate future, that is, when, from next October, the phase of the project financed by the European community will end. In short, what do we want to do when we grow up? This is the question we will ask ourselves in the team buildings that will also be organized in Santo Stefano Quisquina, Burgio, Montallegro, Porto Empedocle…”
Luana Landolina who is also vice-president of the Confcommercio Giovani of Agrigento, studied in Siena where she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Linguistic Mediation; then, a passion for Neuro-Linguistic Programming, studies with Claudio Belotti and Roberto Cerè, pioneers of Coaching in Italy. These days, the third reprint of his book “Being Happy is a Word! Managing Thoughts, Behaviors and Emotions through Language,” which when it was first published in the “If You Want You Can” series directed by Roberto Cerè, was an Amazon best seller.
“Now,” Landolina says, “it is important for the different project partners to meet to decide how to continue the experience of the network and how to do it as protagonists. It is interesting that you do not expect someone to propose an initiative, but you need to create the initiative, to be part of it. Now the network has to learn to walk on its own.”
The key word in this phase is synergy.
“If we ask ourselves,” Landolina says, “how can the network continue to work even without economic support from the European community, it is crucial to focus on those synergistic activities that can bring together different actors, perhaps daring and creating connections between seemingly irreconcilable worlds. For example, can we imagine the tourist from a five-star hotel, stopping to stay in a spartan hostel? At first, it might seem like an absurdity, a balky idea, but if you focus on human capital, on the special encounters that can be made in certain contexts, possibly having the opportunity to taste the traditional recipes of the genuine cuisine of the past, with zero-kilometer ingredients harvested the same morning directly from the garden, well then it becomes an experience, maybe even unique and unforgettable.”
Text by Editors
