Formation and socialization: the project biographical workshops

Abstract

Starting from a broad picture of paths of formation through life histories that make use of exploration procedures and position themselves against an academic and operational definition of the formative intervention, this article proposes to present a specific instrument: the project biographical workshops. At the same time, the text develops the theoretical principles related to this instrument in its practical modalities, and the challenges for the formation that it brings with it. The biographical workshop is a procedure that inscribes the life history in a dynamical prospective that links the past, the present and the future of the subject, and aims to make emerge his/her personal project, considering the dimension of the narrative as construction of the subject's experience and of the life history as a space of changes open to the project of the self. Within a group of twelve people the individual life histories are the object of an exploratory and socializing work that involves acts of writing about oneself (autobiography) and of understanding of the other (heterobiography). The formation procedure put into motion has therefore as its explicit objective to place the participants in a position to create a project for their professional selves.