{"id":329386,"date":"2017-08-07T00:10:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T22:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/sport-inclusion-and-reciprocity-in-spain\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T13:08:01","slug":"sport-inclusion-and-reciprocity-in-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/sport-inclusion-and-reciprocity-in-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sport, Inclusion and Reciprocity in Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_20170713_171000\"<\/a><\/strong>On July 13, 2017, seventy people from various places in Spain, Italy and Croatia attended the \u201cInclusive Schools, Social Innovation, Childhood and Sport Symposium\u201d which was held at the Palau Robert Gardens of Barcelona. The event was organized by the Laboratorio de Investigaci\u00f3n Prosocial Aplicada (LIPA), Universitat Aut\u00f2noma de Barcelona and by the Sportmeet International Network. Teachers, physiotherapists and sport players took a closer look at projects that promote inclusion, intervention models and disability from the standpoint of inclusion, in the belief that no part of life is not worth living. Life needs to have a place for weakness, to experience, through weakness, one\u2019s own ability to recuperate. In the days that followed, the Mariapolis Centre of Castell d\u2019Aro provided the forum for the Summer School in which topics regarding inclusive sport were examined and discussed. Twenty people attended and were guided through the experience by experts Eugenio Jim\u00e8nez and Dr Javier Lamoneda. Through games they learned what it\u2019s like to be in the shoes of a person with a disability. By its very nature sport is an everyday opportunity to come face to face with limitations, and offers opportunities for reflection on the obstacles of life, suffering and disadvantage. The reflections that were presented by Paolo Crepaz from Sportmeet led the participants to question the concepts of limitation, barriers, obstacles, suffering and disadvantage from the standpoint of things that can be turned into potential, an opportunity to \u201cconstantly tend, by force of habit, towards universal brotherhood\u201d (Chiara Lubich). \"IMG_20170714_115356\"<\/a><\/strong>Sport\u2019s ability to get us to face and overcome obstacles, to be inclusive, to struggle against all sorts of barriers and in every social context is quite striking. For example, what a small ball can do in uniting people on an isolated summer field or inside a refugee camp. Players come face to face with one another within an atmosphere of mutual trust and esteem. Javier Lamoneda Prieto, professor of Physical Education, in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, shared his own experience: \u201cIt seems like a team has formed over these days, a team that would like physical activity to become a source of encounter between different actors and sport professionals. It is the first time such a training course has been developed by the public university.\u201d Roberto Niccolis, a sport operative from Verona, Italy: \u201cThe limit that I often encounter is that of the distance that separates people from each other; the handicap, I mean. Reducing this distance through sharing, getting to know one another and experiences with one another other make us feel closer.\u201d Roberto Macri, President of the Opera Santa Rita Foundation, Prato, Italy: \u201cAbove all, you\u2019ve created an opportunity for reflecting on ourselves and the values that emerge from our work. Not only our professional or volunteer work, but more generally what can give deeper meaning to being men or women.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sportmeet Summer School 2017, which was held in Barcelona and Castel d\u2019Aro, Spain, on July 13 \u2013 16, turned out to be a lively discussion on sport and disability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893,894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2","category-senza-categoria-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}