Hello, nice to meet you.
My name is Beppo and I am based in Geneva, Switzerland.
I have been involved in a number of policy-making at the international or national level in a professional capacity, including public health and social policies. I have also participated as a communication and facilitation expert in supporting NGOs and other organizations that confront social problems.
In the process, I have become aware of the following issues.
What do people actually need (really need support)?
Are the public health or social policies we are working on really helping people?
In other words, in this era of rapid change, how can we approach the reality and actual conditions of people’s lives, formulate social policies that are essentially useful to people over the long term, and steadily implement them?
In recent years, various public health and social problems, both international and domestic, such as would widespread infectious diseases, food crises, isolation and loneliness, addictions, dementia, and violent abuse, have erupted and are constantly changing their forms.
While international organizations and national governments wish for people’s happiness, they are unable to take effective measures except for reactive measures based on conventional and traditional policies such as laws, regulations, and financial support. NGOs and other organizations that address the gaps where these institutions are unable to respond are eventually exhausted by the emergence of other problems and the sustainability of their financial and human resources.
In response to these complex and ever-changing social issues, the philosophy of a comprehensive approach based on local communities has been advocated and placed at the center of policy, while at the same time, the trend toward an emphasis on evidence and data based on utilitarian thinking has been developing. In this situation, policymakers, front-line professionals, and people themselves are in a state of chaos.
Under these circumstances, is it really possible to make truly useful policies, starting from the reality of each individual’s life and discovering through frank dialogue what they themselves should work on, what local and national governments should do, and what the international community should do?
With this awareness of these issues, I have been exploring my personal interests in communication and organizational theory, social-behavioral theory, and facilitation, and I hope to make these methodologies public on this blog.
In my personal life, I like to travel and learn foreign languages.
I am also interested in productive work methods and lifestyles.