Workshops / Reflection Groups

WHAT ARE THEY?

They are shared spaces for reflection, neither limited to a theoretical comprehension nor to intellectual elaboration exclusively. They are spaces where experiences, comments and reflection interchanges allow people to rescue the deepest personal aspects from their experience of “being a woman” or “being a man” in our present society.

They are reliable spaces where gender stereotypes are possible to be revised and people can open to new behaviours to favour a better quality of life in daily interchange between women and men. They are spaces to discover the “obvious” in the concrete and daily issues.

WHAT ARE THEY USEFUL FOR?

To favour awareness on the gender condition and to revise stereotypes that confines and limits both women and men.

WHAT ARE THE SUBJECTS DEALING WITH?

The following are some of the subjects discussed by the groups:
• Women and money: a conflictive relation.
• Men and money: power strategies within the couple.
• The couple: entangled mixture of love, money and power.
• Money from inheritance.
• Women and success: capacity to defend other people’s interests and difficulties to defend their own.
• Women and love. Love illusions and illusory loves.
• Changes and their ghosts
• 30-year-old women.
• Success and its ghosts.
• Daily negotiations.
• Reality: approaching strategies.

WHERE DO THEY TAKE PLACE?

The Reflection Workshops are held in Buenos Aires and in other cities and different countries as well.
In Argentina, Reflection Workshops have been held in Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata, Bahía Blanca, San Nicolás, Santa Rosa (La Pampa), Rosario (Santa Fe), Mendoza, San Juan, Córdoba, San Martín de los Andes (Neuquén).
In Latin America, Santiago de Chile (Chile), Montevideo (Uruguay), Asunción (Paraguay), Porto Alegre (Brazil), San José (Costa Rica), Guatemala (Guatemala)
Mexico, D.F. (Mexico).
In Europe: Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, San Sebastían, Córdoba, Huelva (Spain).

HOW LONG DO THEY TAKE?

People who are participating in Reflection Workshops coordinated by me in Buenos Aires, gather together once a month for three hours.

Those Reflection Workshops held out of Buenos Aires have to count, at least, on three subsequent meetings, three ours each. A Workshop can be carried out satisfactorily in one day and a half. If here is more time available, workshops can be extended.

HOW MANY PEOPLE PARTICIPATE?

The minimum number of people needed for a dynamic work ranges between eight
and ten. The maximum satisfactory number ranges between 20 and 25.

At International Encounters World Congresses, Clara Coria has coordinate workshops for a hundred people, which allows an approach to the subject but limits a profound treatment on the matters.

WHAT KIND OF METHODOLOGY?

The methodology applied includes group reflection along with exercises that help to get deeply into the less conscientious aspects of the matters dealt with.

CAN THEY BE ORGANIZED UNDER REQUEST?

Certainly, they can be organized under request, provided the request is made in advance, so as to fix dates conveniently, to define the subjects and to establish duration.

For further information, please contact Clara Coria.