Massimo Modesti

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About Massimo Modesti

BIOGRAPHY: 25 years-long experience in Informal and Non-Formal Education, Project Management, Community Empowerment & Engagement, and Social Research with an Ethnographic Approach. I apply social research methods to assess organizations and their effectiveness and tools developed in Education and Anthropology to facilitate individual, group, and companies' personal, professional, and community development. As an educationalist and development expert, throughout my career, I have dealt with disability, immigration, mental health, HIV, gender, and sexuality in terms of prevention, empowerment and social inclusion. I have published scientific articles and essays in books and journals, in particular in "Anthropology of human rights","Migrant parents","From words to facts"(ed. V. Maher),"Special education in Europe"(ed. A. Lascioli), and "I can read too"(ed. F. Larocca, L. Sangalli). I am a certified EU Aid Volunteer with a Project Management and Capacity Building experience in Nepal in the field of rural community development. Since February 2022 I have been involved in the Albagnano Healing Meditation Center: previously as a member of the Executive Committee, as a Volunteer Coordinator, and as coordinator of educational programs aimed at children, parents, and educators. More recently as a member of the fundraising team and spiritual journeys leader. I am building connections worldwide to promote development cooperation, with a focus on Asia, particularly Nepal and the Philippines. Recently, in collaboration with the Nepalese master Nabin Giri, I started organizing Vedic yoga experiences and retreats in Italy and abroad.