The Construction of the Place of Listening and Place of Speech by a Facilitator of Peacemaking Circles in a Women's Penitentiary

EasyChair Preprint 5916

Abstract

Introduction: The text aims to understand the potential of the Peacebuilding Circle to understand the importance of listening in the construction of the place of speech of women. Methodology consists of an experience report based on the author's experience, as a facilitator in the conduct of groups with prisoners women in a public penitentiary, using the methodology of Circles. Results: this article demonstrates the importance of this experience of exchanges between the facilitator and the women, participants of the research, for the construction and understanding of the place of speech from the place of listening that the author experienced, which in the improvement and use of this helped for the empowerment of women. Final considerations: dialogicity marks this experience of affecting, but also be affected by the circular process of storytelling among women with diverse gender experiences, which contributed to the search for new critical readings triggering processes of change in the participants.

Keywords: place of speech; listening place; qualified listening; coping strategies; empowerment; women, circular technique.

Keyphrases: Empoderamento, Mulheres, Prisões, círculos

@booklet{EasyChair:5916,
  author    = {Luiza Rodrigues dos Santos and Alcione Bastos Alves and Marilda Castelar},
  title     = {The Construction of the Place of Listening and Place of Speech by a Facilitator of Peacemaking Circles in a Women's Penitentiary},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 5916},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}