|BIOGRAPHY
1987 (CH | KS)
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My name is Mimi Shehu. I’m a psychocosial and educational counsultant, a generative professional Counsellor, and a social educator.
I hold a degree in Social Work and Educational Sciences from SUPSI (Univerity of Applied Science of Southern Switzerland).
The professional exparience spans different areas of my social and educational work. At OSC (cantonal Socio-Psychiatric. Organisation), I worled at the Residential, Recreational and Worl Centre, welcoming and supporting residents in their daily lives in the Casvegno neighbourhood. This was followed by work as a community-based practitioner at SPAMM (Open Multimedia Space).
In the field of emergency intervention, work with the Paolo Torriani Foundation for Minors led to involvement in the Emergency Socio-Educational Unit for Minors. As part of its team, I contributed to the development of the CEMI pilot project (Mobile Educational Centre for Minors), with the support of the Swiss Solidarity Foundation.
Since 2020, CEMI has been established as an integrated community service. It has also evolved into a specialised approach for particularly complex situations in which a minor's safety is highly unstable, parental capacities are fragile, and placement in a residential educational facility is not considered appropriate.
At the Meeting Point of the Ticino Foundation for Foster Families, the role involved ensuring the child's right to maintain contact with their parents in a supervised setting, with a mandate to support parenting and safeguard the child's well-being.
Over time, the professional focus shifted towards people's inner worlds. An interest in what remains unspoken gradually opened the way from an exclusively urgent, intervention-based approach towards a deeper form of listening.
This shift led to professional training in counselling at IRG – Institute for Group Research and Generative Psychology, culminating in a diploma as a Generative Professional Counsellor.
Today, independent practice takes place in Lugano, at a private practice that also serves as an IRG counselling centre. Alongside this work, collaboration continues with various local organisations, including several cantonal lower secondary schools, where group reflection workshops are facilitated for young people.
Ongoing external collaboration also continues with the Emergency Socio-Educational Unit for Minors (CSUM) and the Emergency Reception and Observation Centre (PAO).
Availability remains open for private educational support mandates in exceptionally complex situations requiring specialised expertise.
“We had everything to say to each other, but no way of saying it.
He wrote: Are you okay?
I told him: My eyes are broken.
He wrote: But are you okay?
I replied: That’s a very complicated question.
He wrote: It’s a very simple answer.
I asked him: Are you okay?
He wrote: Some mornings I wake up with a sense of gratitude.
We talked for hours, but kept repeating the same things, always the same things.
Our cups emptied. The day emptied.
I was lonelier than I would have been alone.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, pp. 96–97.
He wrote: Are you okay?
I told him: My eyes are broken.
He wrote: But are you okay?
I replied: That’s a very complicated question.
He wrote: It’s a very simple answer.
I asked him: Are you okay?
He wrote: Some mornings I wake up with a sense of gratitude.
We talked for hours, but kept repeating the same things, always the same things.
Our cups emptied. The day emptied.
I was lonelier than I would have been alone.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, pp. 96–97.