“The Tortoise Classroom” is a program for young people and adults that proposes the enrichment of the learning process through artistic improvisation and experimentation techniques combined with mindfulness practices.

“The Tortoise Classroom” blends well-being with education, martial and expressive arts, improvisation practices and mindfulness training in order to invite participants to zoom out, slow down, switch off and engage with the environment in a different way.

Inspired by the growing movement of slow education and by contemporary music and performance art, the program is comprised a series of educational activities that sharpen interpersonal cooperation and empathy, contact with the natural environment, and physical presence in the Here and Now.

For “The Tortoise Classroom” WEAVE brings together experts from a variety of fields, such as dance improvisation, music, school education, history, architecture, biology, bird watching, Tai Qi and mindfulness. The goal of the program is not only to “teach” participants other ways of seeing and experiencing, but also for the facilitators to experience the different techniques proposed in the curriculum, hence, blurring the lines between “teacher” and “participant”

The output of the project is focused on documentation of the process by participants and results to a toolkit available online for educators and wider audiences.