Social health workers are particularly exposed to the risk of burn-out.
The fatigue of daily work and the complexity of the suffering of most of the people who assist can wear down the professional and personal vitality of the operators themselves over time.
In recent years, some experiments have been launched aimed at the training opportunities that art can give, if correctly applied to the social-health system, even if to date there are very few experiences that adopt contemporary art to promote artistic training aimed at ‘social health worker with the aim of motivating and healing pain, fatigue, and the sense of failure and burnout.
This article presents a burn-out prevention training methodology for operators of a Mental Health Department of the ASP Palermo that uses artistic practice as a participatory form of action learning, or as an active relationship capable of suggesting new forms of self-listening, narration and conflict mediation.