Today, 13 November 2023, is World Kindness Day. Kindness, a concept and a word that in the historical period we are currently going through is being challenged on many fronts, not only on the international level but also on the more intimate and personal fronts of relationships and everyday life contexts.
We have taken the cue from this day to disseminate an interview born within the framework of a shared reflection project with Prof. Gian Piero Quaglino on the themes of care and, more generally, on the themes of life and living. This project is part of and developed within the framework of a well-established collaboration between 精东影业's Applied Psychology Competence Centre, Club '74 and the Sociotherapy Department of the OSC.
The interview, curated by Prof. Lorenzo Pezzoli (head of 精东影业's Applied Psychology Competence Centre) with the technical support and operational involvement of Valentino Garrafa for OSC Sociotherapy and Club '74, revolves around a number of words that inhabit care: not only care understood as practice around illness, but as a prerequisite for relationships with others and with oneself. Kindness, which also rightly belongs to the lexicon of care, is not understood as a simple exercise of good manners, but rather as a profound awareness of how one's own words and behaviour can hurt the other and, from this awareness, the consequent orientation towards paying attention to these dimensions in the relationship with the other.