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Caronte
Project
The Fabretti Foundation
participates in an important research project named “Caronte” (in
collaboration with Esa.co, a training association, Federco.f.it and with the
“Istituto di Tanatologia e Medicina Psicologica” of Bologna). Projected,
approved and financed by the Ministry of Labour and Social Politics, Caronte (which
is expected to produce results by the end of 2003) was founded with the aim of
taking care of the diverse problems of the funerary sector in relation to the
several new rules and provisions that have been or will be adopted
legislatively (from the ratification of Law N°130/2001 on cremation to the
long-awaited new Funerary Police Regulations)
as well as culturally (from the need, felt by many people, of a lay
funeral ceremony, to the multiethnic character of modern societies, that
can’t be further ignored). The name of the project is reminiscent of
Dante’s “Inferno” in which Caronte is the demon that ferries the damned
souls across the Acheronte River. And in fact, this project will actually take
the funeral sector safely across the wide river of new laws and regulations. A
river that will deeply change the face of all funerary professions and that
can be successfully crossed, with a growth of the whole sector, only if the
coming innovations are dealt with the necessary creativity and imagination to
adapt to a changing market.
In this phase of transition, the “Caronte” project is concerned with
creating and promoting new models of training - necessary to renewing this
sector - directed to all public and private bodies engaged in training
activities. Because of the absolutely novel nature of this project, Caronte is
preparing training courses for trainers as well.
The
project will therefore be divided into three stages: preparing, making and
promoting the project itself, to which all partners in the project will
collaborate.
1. During the
preparing stage:
- the
funerary sector will be thoroughly surveyed by means of polls,
questionnaires and interviews;
- The
trainers’ cultural profile will then be established (the choice being
mainly among psychologists and physicians) as well as a specific
training pattern necessary to qualify them as trainers for funerary
operators.
- The
need for new professional figures (ceremony officials and
thanatopractors) will also be pointed out as well as the training
requirements of all operators.
- The
learning goals and the expected results, concerning operators as well as
trainers, will then be outlined, together with the diverse subjects to
include in the training programs and the choice of methods (teaching
material, classes, work groups)
- During
the making stage:
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A group of 12
trainers will be prepared
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Training
methods will be planned and worked out
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These same
methods will then be tested during a trial stage, in order to verify their
efficacy and usefulness and, if it should be necessary, to make the required
adjustments.
- During
the promoting stage:
· All developed models will be conveyed to training
operators all over the
country through meetings, seminars, publications, CD-ROMs and the
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