Elena Messina

• Offered Dance Movement Therapy sessions. Expressive Therapy utilizes movement and dance to promote emotional, physical, and mental well-being.
• Proposed Shiatsu treatments. Japanese therapeutic bodywork is rooted in traditional Chinese medicine.
• Dispensed Flower Essence ( Bach and Australian Bush) consultations to address emotional and spiritual imbalance.
• Provided brief interventions to help clients develop healthy coping skills.
• Conducted holistic assessments to understand clients' physical, mental, and spiritual needs, developing personalized treatment plans, and monitoring progress.
• Guided clients to use alternative therapy techniques such as tapping, visualizations, positive thinking, and mantras to promote personal growth, autonomy, self-esteem, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Aimed to support clients in developing self-awareness and fostering personal growth and development.

• Collaborated with students to complete homework, identify skill gaps, and address weaknesses.
• Boosted student confidence using positive reinforcement strategies, repetition, and review to help students master challenging material.
• Developed personalized learning plans to deepen understanding and accommodate diverse learning styles.
• Provided one-on-one and small group instruction, fostering flexible and differentiated learning.
• Tutored diverse range of students in Italy (secondary school humanities subjects) and Australia (Italian as second language for various purposes and levels). Emphasized and celebrated Italian culture, literature, and history in teaching.

• Organized and managed demonstrations, street events, and Summer camps focused on social, cultural, and educational activities.
• Built strong relationships with parents and community figures to create optimal learning and social environments for children and teenagers.
• Monitored and adjusted instruction to individual needs, and collaborated with colleagues to develop social interactions with peers and healthy emotional development for minors.
• Utilized innovative and psychological strategies and participated in regular team meetings to discuss best practices.
• Managed and coordinated volunteers, fostering relationships with local social service bodies.
• Participated to training courses in "Child Entertainment Techniques," "The Management of Power and Authority in the Educational Relationship," and "Model 101 of Transactional Analysis."

• Provided babysitting and Summer Camps.
• Conducted animated and entertaining activities at children's parties.
• Led ideation, research, and implementation of themes, stories, and dramatizations.
• Proposed creative and educational psychomotor games.

• Addressed behavioral issues using positive reinforcement and supportive methods.
• Facilitated consistent homeschooling attendance and ensured attentiveness to homework, supporting children's education.
• Coordinated visitation strategies to facilitate relationships with birth families.
• Aided children in recovering from challenging home or school environments.
• Provided comprehensive care for a troubled adolescent with a tumultuous background, including institutional stays due to lack of family support.

Thesis: "The comedies of the White Telephones. Mario Camerini between the 30s and 40s."