September - October 1998 - N. 4
executive director Natalia Encolpio
associate editor Loretta Lorenzini
In this number
Fifty: Desire for
change
Global Iso-Ontic Counseling for Women
By Loretta Lorenzini
Women & work
Risk Factors of preterm delivery
By Natalia Encolpio
Fifty: Desire for
change
Global Iso-Ontic Counseling for Women
By Loretta Lorenzini
To change, to be renewed, to modify one's life, beyond one
role, continuously. Female counseling born from years of experience, successful practice
and from one reality: women, after the 50-year threshold and during the menopause often
believe they have no more chances and are not able to change anything in their life. This
feeling of being out of the game can blossom into an existential crisis or into a
psychological and physical illness. Not only does life not finish at fifty but it holds
energies and new perspectives for women. Iso Ontic Counseling is the practical instrument
for assisting women to face this crisis point in their existence. Change, but how?
Iso-Ontic Counseling involves the use of techniques and specific intervention
methodologies developed during twenty years of research. This is an approach in which
practical and operational instruments are employed during counseling. The training is
preceded by a preliminary phase of anamnesis; during an individual encounter problems,
goals, desires and the general situation of the client are analyzed deeply. This is
followed by an information session: to know ourselves better and to better understand the
situation (biological and psychological) we are living. Iso Ontic Counseling offers
medical and psychological support. During the fourth encounter, tests are administered. A
series of specific encounters follows to provide the client with global consultancy,
including individual and group encounters to give her concrete instruments for solving the
problems that have emerged and for changing herself. A second information session follows
to provide useful approaches for carrying out a winning intuition, for changing work or
for undertaking new entrepreneurial activities. Body and mind, intelligence and also
aesthetic pleasure are considered. The Counseling also offers the careful, specific
intervention of a stylist of the total person to provide a new look for new women. When
Iso-Ontic Counseling is completed, the operational staff will compile a detailed report in
which activities undertaken, goals reached, expectations and predictions will be
indicated. One or more follow-up phases are also planned which can be organized with the
client at the end of the Counseling. The emergence of any unexpected situations that may
tend to modify the optimal one established at the end of the intervention can be the
subject of subsequent collaborations. Intervention program
1 - Individual encounter
2 - Information
3 - Medical counseling
4 - Psychological tests
5 - Group encounters
6 - 7- 8- 9 Specific techniques of Iso Ontic intervention
10 - Individual encounter
The project is subdivided into ten encounters that can take place in
one week (full immersion) or over a longer period of time.
Project director: Prof. Loretta Lorenzini
Operational staff: Information: doctor Natalia Encolpio
Medical support: doctor Giuseppina Esposito
Psychological and testing support: doctor Maria Luisa Martelli
Iso Ontic Counseling: Prof Loretta Lorenzini
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Women & work
Risk Factors of preterm delivery
By Natalia Encolpio
Research done for the Wedo Rapport for the Cairo
Conference in 1999
The research (coordinated by the University of Perugia in
Italy) has been done in 17 European countries: ist's the first study which has analyzed
this aspect and the counclusion are very interesting: work is essential in women life and
its 'influence' on the pregnancy is relevant. The danger came from a physical stress but
even from a psychological stress (the insatisfaction with the occupation a bad
relationship with the other collegues…). The stress is strong even in the women who
are unemployed. A woman is twice as likely to go into premature labour if she is of low
social class, has left school at 16, is teenager or is unmarried. This is the
controversial conclusion of a major study revealed today into risk factors associated with
premature birth. The Europop survey, which analysed the background of nearly 16.000 women
who gave birth between 1995-1997 in 17 European countries, also hows clearly that the
chances of a woman giving birth to a very premature baby are significantly increased if
she:
a. is unemployed b. is over 34 years old
c. smokes during the pregnancy
d. is overweight or underweight
e. is doing a job which is either physically strenuous, requires long
period of standing or is mentally stressful
f. has had problems in a previous pregnancies
The counclusion we can draw from this are:
a. there is a strong link between levels of education and extreme
prematurity
b. there is a strong link between personal strife/stres and extreme
prematurity
c. there is a strong link between strenuous work and prematurity
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Meeting with the Nagoya City Women's Mission
Rome 2 October
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Il Cenacolo has organized a
meeting with the women coming from Nagoya ( Japan) to Italy. The delegation, composed by
students, workers, housewives was interested in learning about the status of women in
Italy. We have had exchanges of opinion and experiences for the activities of Il cenacolo
and the Nagoya City Women's Mission.
In the picture the dinner with the Nagoya City Women's
Mission |
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