Sensitivity and creativity workshops with a group of institutionalized adolescents

Abstract

The intention was to describe the running of workshops with a group of institutionalized adolescents, seeking to understand their feelings in their relation with drugs. Socio-poetics was used as the theoretical and methodological framework. We held eight workshops for sensitivity and creativity: one for planning and decision making with the research group, four to produce data, two to analyze indicators and one to restitute these. We considered that the group provided learning among the co-researchers, with an opportunity to learn with each other, recover self-esteem through self-discovery, talk about their life and feelings towards drugs and a therapeutic opportunity.