IMAGINARY CREATURE : empowering experiences with the girls of Balika Peace Home in Nepal through an art-based workshop
Taka, Maria (2013)
Taka, Maria
Diakonia-ammattikorkeakoulu
2013
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013112718504
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2013112718504
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Taka, Maria. Imaginary creature : empowering experiences with the girls of Balika Peace Home in Nepal through an art-based workshop. Helsinki 2013, 84 p. Diaconia University of Applied Sciences, Degree Programme in Social Services, option in Diaconial Social Work. Bachelor of Social Services (UAS).
The development-oriented thesis illustrates the workshop project implemented in Nepal in a girls’ community, Balike Peace Home, and reports the implementation and assesment of the results. The aim was to support community spirit and to apply methods that enable strengthening one’s own identity, which is one way for better self-perception and self-confidence. The Imaginary Creature workshop utilised creative, art-based methods to enable empowering experiences for the participants. The chosen theoretical frame enables to describe the meaning of the utilised methods and illumines spiritual and diaconal aspects.
The participators in the workshop are fostered in Balika Peace Home, which is maintained by a Nepalese, non-governmental organisation CWIN. Cultural aspects of females in Nepal are outlined in the thesis.
The gathered material consisted of the workshop outputs made by the participants in different phases of the workshop, as drawings, stories and hand-made characters utilising recycled materials. These were complemented with photos, notes of participatory observation, informal interviews with workers of CWIN and participators of the workshop including volunteers.
The plan of the workshop included three phases allowing the participants to modify it, and the exhibition, which served as a platform for feedback of the workshop and for the participants to become seen and heard with their hand-made characters and stories. The received feedback and the results speak for the empowering experiences of the participants when being equally appreciated with their own uniqueness through participatory, teamwork highlighted practices. The thesis also discusses the replicability of the workshop.
The development-oriented thesis illustrates the workshop project implemented in Nepal in a girls’ community, Balike Peace Home, and reports the implementation and assesment of the results. The aim was to support community spirit and to apply methods that enable strengthening one’s own identity, which is one way for better self-perception and self-confidence. The Imaginary Creature workshop utilised creative, art-based methods to enable empowering experiences for the participants. The chosen theoretical frame enables to describe the meaning of the utilised methods and illumines spiritual and diaconal aspects.
The participators in the workshop are fostered in Balika Peace Home, which is maintained by a Nepalese, non-governmental organisation CWIN. Cultural aspects of females in Nepal are outlined in the thesis.
The gathered material consisted of the workshop outputs made by the participants in different phases of the workshop, as drawings, stories and hand-made characters utilising recycled materials. These were complemented with photos, notes of participatory observation, informal interviews with workers of CWIN and participators of the workshop including volunteers.
The plan of the workshop included three phases allowing the participants to modify it, and the exhibition, which served as a platform for feedback of the workshop and for the participants to become seen and heard with their hand-made characters and stories. The received feedback and the results speak for the empowering experiences of the participants when being equally appreciated with their own uniqueness through participatory, teamwork highlighted practices. The thesis also discusses the replicability of the workshop.