255 teenagers, 150 young people, 300 families and 30 Jesuits. This is the number of participants who applied for the Selva experience taking place between June and September in north Italy. 100 adolescents and over 50 families stayed on the waiting list. There were three programs for adolescents, three for families, two for young people, one for Jesuits as well as the experience of the Spiritual Exercises.

This initiative was made possible through the work of more than 150 volunteers who helped in the preparation of meals, administration work and animation programs for the children. 30 teachers were engaged as speakers.

"The aim is to invest in the formation of people, including non-believers, to help them become interiorly free and responsible persons, offering them tools to read the word of God, to discern, to communicate with others and to live a good life.  This is the pedagogy of the Exercises: giving tools, offering a method, helping people to encounter the Lord", Beppe Lavelli SJ, director of Villa Capriolo, emphasised.  The Jesuit Mario Laner and 17 adolescents initiated this work of Providence as they benefitted from the generosity of Carlo Padrali-Noy and his wife Almarosa who donated their holiday home to them and contributed to the construction of the second building. Many choices have matured in this place, where Card. Martini, after leaving the chair of the diocese of Milan, spent some time of rest every year.