Turin, Italy – 9 November 2016 - Following the preparation of the Valdocco project (entitled “To Welcome and Celebrate”) the animation team of the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians has completed a first course in planning and formation with a meeting on understanding the spaces of the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians from a contemporary point of view. The speaker was Professor Leonardo Della Noce from Holland.  The course was attended by Salesians, Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, members of the Salesian Family and lay collaborators. The meeting arose from the need to make Valdocco more accessible to the young people of today who are genuinely searching, sometimes unknowingly, for the presence of God. There is still a pastoral concern to continue to accompany visitors to the holy places of the Salesian charism in a gradual process of dialogue, increasingly in tune with the culture of our time.