Stefania Pascut: WHO Healthy Cities Project Co-ordinator in Udine (Italy), with more than 15 years’ experience in local public administration within the Municipality of Udine and in prevention and health promotion policies and programmes within the Integrated Health Promotion Office in the City of Udine.
She attended the Advanced School for Prevention & Health Promotion (Integrated School - University of Piemonte Orientale Avogadro, Torino & University Bocconi, Milano & University Cattolica, Milano), Summer School of Social Determinants of Health (UCL-University College London), Master in Business Management and in Political Sciences (University of Udine) and achieved a PhD in Psychology and Social Neuroscience (Cognitive, Social and Affective Neuroscience) at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.
She is a active member of the World Health Organisation Healthy Cities European Network and collaborates with various national and international networks (Age-Friendly Cities, Dementia-Friendly Cities, Covenant on Demographic Change, WHO Healthy Ageing Task Force, WHO Well-being Economy Group, WHO Regions for Health Network, Milan Urban Food Policy Pact, Italian Healthy Cities Network, Health City Institute, etc.).
She has been involved in several projects co-founded by EU (Lifelong Learning Programmes, URBACT, Central Europe, Italia-Croatia Interreg, CCM National Prevention Programme).
At the local level she co-ordinates and manages the prevention and health promotion programmes (healthy lifestyles, dental screening, healthy & active ageing, sustainable mobility, healthy eating, food waste reduction, dementia prevention, sexual health & risky behaviours prevention, healthy and sustainable environments, etc.), by collaborating with many different stakeholders - public, private, educational institutions, businesses, voluntary associations, NGOs – and conducting research with the University of Udine on the above mentioned themes, especially focusing on health, psychosocial well-being, active ageing, mind-body medicine interventions, preventative and protective approaches towards the decline of cognitive, affective and social functioning.
Stefania Pascut
Speaker
Embracing Uncertainty: Building Individual and Collective Resilience to Navigate Change
Change is part of life. It happens continuously, to each of us: sometimes by choice, sometimes by necessity; sometimes as an opening, sometimes as a loss. We need tools to interpret the changing world, to understand our minds and our relationships, to orient ourselves in times of uncertainty. Hence the invitation to not fear change and to begin to inhabit it, not out of resignation, but by choice; not to simplify the world, but to learn to navigate its complexity with awareness, responsibility, and balance. Because the ability to embrace change - inside and outside of us - holds the possibility of growing as individuals and as a community.
Drawing on the reflections, evidence, and contributions of the 22nd IFOTES "Winds of Hope" Congress, Stefania Pascut has written the book "Embracing Uncertainty," in which she analyzes resilience as a personal and collective skill: from the analysis of uncertainty to self-knowledge, from social relationships to the digital context, from artificial intelligence to the mind-body connection. An invitation not to fear the unpredictable, but to actively engage with it.