An interview with Francesca De Bartolomeis from Fuerte es la Vida Parkinson No Limits on July 1, 2023 by George Ackerman, Ph.D, J.D.
Biography
I am a psychomotricist for children, adults and elderly formed at school of teacher Cecilia Morosini. I’m specialized in Parkinson. I wrote and discussed in April 2007 the thesis on the holistic approach in the treatment of Parkinson, starting from the experience of the field with people. with Parkinson and their families in the field of holistic treatments, deepening the issue of biodanza. The thesis is dedicated to my father, a person with a youthful debut Parkinson.
Theater expert and Morenian theater, dance, body reading techniques, basal stimulation,
active body mediation techniques and Ayurvedic massages.
Please tell me a little about your background and what got you involved with awareness.
I taught and conducted training courses for professional educators, hippery and teachers. I
have participated in national and international conferences related to Parkinson.
In Italy I collaborates with:
- The Italian Parkinson Association (AIP) and with the neurologist prof. G. Pezzoli
- The Namasté Cultural Association (Italy) as a coordinator of consultants, psychomotricist,
event organizer and public relations manager
I have co-conducted dance groups for people with Parkinson and their families together with
Cinzia Pattoni (psychomotricist expert in biodanza and Parkinson); I carried out individual home house psychomotor interventions; I conducted groups of psychomotricity for people.
with Parkinson; I co-conducted groups for people with Parkinson with a music therapist, a
psychologist and a speech therapist.
With the Namasté Association, I participated in the World Parkinson Congress (WPC) in
Portland in 2016.
In Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) I created the no profit association Fuerte es La Vida
Parkinson No Limits, and I’m the consultant coordinator, psychomotor, event organizer and
Public Relations Manager
I also represented the consultants of the Association Fuerte es La Vida Parkinson No Limits
during the World Congress on Parkinson in Kyoto in June 2019.
I’m a member of the Pd Avengers.
I’m part of the Advocates committee of the World Parkinson Congress 2023 in Barcelona. In this congress we will be present with the Fuerte es la Vida Parkinson No Limits association.
with a stand, a poster on our methodology and I will hold a class: Emotion in motion.
Can you tell me more about your organization?
We created our Association in memory of my father, who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s at
51 years old.
The Fuerte es la Vida Parkinson No Limits Association was born from the experience of
living alongside a person in love with life itself. This person has had the strength to live by
breaking any limitation that Parkinson’s disease tried to put before him. His enterprising, curious, adventurous, imaginative, sunny, and generous spirit animates our association.
Undoubtedly, personal experience, combined with the training and professional experience gained over the past 20 years by the coordinator of the association’s counselors, are characteristics that make our commitment to caring for and accompanying individuals and
families on this journey even more intense.
What is your passion and how did you get involved in Parkinson’s awareness and hope for a cure?
Personal experience next to my dad, my passions (music, dance, theatre, art, cooking,
nature,…), I managed to reconcile them and make them an integral part of my profession,
psychometrician. Health potential, a positive approach to life and hardships are essential elements of my life and my profession. This is what moves me in accompanying awareness and hope for a cure.
What type of goals do individuals with Parkinson’s have when working with you?
Support and increase the potential for mental, social, and physical health.
What type of training and how long are the programs?
All the paths are personalized, both in terms of duration and for the therapeutic and wellness
activities. We use a specific methodology, created by me with the supervision of a
neurologist and a psychotherapist, the Parkinson No Limits Method, which is based on a
transdisciplinary holistic approach.
What effect can it have on an individual with Parkinson’s?
The benefits found are numerous, both immediate and prolonged over time. The benefits
are evident both to the people themselves and to their families. In addition, they are also found by referral neurologists of people with Parkinson’s and by the monstronteam of
neurologists and therapists.
What would you like to see as a future goal for your programs?
Being able to support more and more people with Parkinson’s and their families and make young people increasingly aware, from childhood, of the importance of really taking care of themselves.
What events do you participate in?
We participate in events, congresses, conferences at a national, international and world.
level.
How can someone get in touch? What is your website?
https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesca-de-bartolomeis-a9a43747
https://linktr.ee/ParkinsonNoLimits By opening this link you will find all our social networks, including our you tube channel, with all the videos.
If you had one final statement or quote you could leave for the Parkinson’s community, what would it be?
“LIFE IS ONE, LIFE IS STRONG, LIVE IT!”