Laboratorio de Saberes Prison as a practice of freedom
A dialogical cycle of 7 monthly sessions to co-imagine and invent, in community, a new perspective on incarceration grounded in life, education for freedom, and care.
The impossible is simply what has not yet been tried. — Alice in Wonderland
The laboratories of knowledges
The laboratories of knowledges are spaces to co-imagine and invent the world we desire, in community. We are convinced that things are not this way by nature — they are simply as they are, and could be as we wish if we are capable not only of imagining them, but of having the courage to bring them into being. We urgently need to imagine another possible world.
For that we need co-inspirers: people with the capacity to listen, to integrate difference, to think with the heart, to feel with the mind, and to place themselves at the service of the community. Through collective co-inspiration, we seek to respond to the complexity and scope that the problems facing our human condition in this historical-cultural moment demand.
In this sense, dialogue is the royal road to this adventure of exploring knowledges.
👥 Open to the whole community
This adventure is open to the whole community. Your participation is highly relevant to this new fabric.
💛 100% subsidized
Cost covered by Liberté. El costo de participación está cubierto por Comunidad Liberté.
Prison as a practice of freedom
In this cycle we seek to radically overturn the failed treatment approach, proposing a path of existential enablement learning —both individual and collective— toward the recovery of freedom. It is about building together a new perspective on incarceration, grounded in life, education for freedom, and care, that can offer public policy a decisive shift.
We will begin this collective adventure by dialoguing about two fundamental, cross-cutting themes: freedom and restorative and therapeutic justice. We start from the premise that people, in many cases, lack a process of self-knowledge and the development of potentials that remain repressed and/or dormant. It is in this sense that we invite a deepening into seven aspects that, from our perspective, make up a process of existential enablement learning for living in FREEDOM, that is, in COMMUNITY.
9 sessions, 9 knowledges in dialogue
Two cross-cutting themes followed by seven aspects of existential enablement learning. These knowledges will gain depth throughout the cycle.
FreedomCross-cutting theme
What do we mean by freedom when we speak of people in prison? Opening the dialogue: philosophical, legal, and everyday frameworks.
Restorative and therapeutic justiceCross-cutting theme
Alternative paradigms to punishment: repairing harm, restoring social bonds, healing the person and the community.
Self-knowledge
Inhabiting one's own history. Recognizing dormant or repressed potentials. The starting point of every existential enablement process.
Contact with nature
Reconnecting with living cycles. The earth, water, plants, and animals as teachers and as belonging.
Physical exercise
The body as a territory of freedom. Movement, play, and sport as vehicles for health, discipline, and connection.
Artistic skills
Art as the language of the soul. Music, visual arts, theatre, and writing as pathways to expression and transformation.
Formal or non-formal education
A sustained learning journey that opens horizons and restores the condition of thinking subject.
Decent work
Meaning, craft, and livelihood. Work as a practice of citizenship and as a bridge to the world beyond confinement.
Community service
Living in freedom is living in community. The possibility of giving back, of contributing, of being an active part of the social fabric.
Public dialogue with invited guests
9 virtual Zoom sessions, synchronous, held monthly. In each one we will invite key voices to engage in public dialogue on the session's themes. Participants can join in through the chat.
“Utopias open the path that is closed; a forest, a woodland, biotopias design a new landscape: this is the essence of this dialogical and collaborative work.”
Upcoming sessions
Sessions are announced as the date, theme, and invited guest are confirmed. The Zoom link is the same for all (recurring meeting).
Conócete a ti mismo: Desarrollo de la Inteligencia Afectiva
Contacto con la naturaleza
By registering for the cycle, you receive the Zoom link just once (valid for all 9 sessions). You can also register for a single session if you're only interested in one.
Desarrollo del ejercicio físico
By registering for the cycle, you receive the Zoom link just once (valid for all 9 sessions). You can also register for a single session if you're only interested in one.
Desarrollo de habilidades artísticas
By registering for the cycle, you receive the Zoom link just once (valid for all 9 sessions). You can also register for a single session if you're only interested in one.
Educación formal o no formal
By registering for the cycle, you receive the Zoom link just once (valid for all 9 sessions). You can also register for a single session if you're only interested in one.
ℹ️ By registering for the cycle, you receive the Zoom link just once (valid for all 9 sessions). You can also register for a single session if you're only interested in one.
Organized by
Universidad Liberté · Learning and Organizational Development Research Team (IRICE-CONICET-UNR)
“Co-imagine prison as a practice of freedom”
Your participation is highly relevant to this new fabric. Join the cycle and let's co-inspire, in community, a new perspective.
🕊️ Co-imagine prison as a practice of freedom
Your participation is highly relevant to this new fabric. Join the cycle and let's co-inspire, in community, a new perspective.