Workshop in Curitiba addresses ‘inner child’ archetype

In celebration of Women’s Month, doctor of education Célia Souza is holding the workshop “The inner child & the feminine.” In an interview with Lab Journalism 2030, Célia explains the choice of theme.

Sgarbe — What is your workshop about?

Dr. Célia — It is about the inner child and the feminine. It is about something I discovered after adulthood. The inner child is a theory of analytical psychology. The child is an archetype, and its ideas are transposed to the collective. There are many facets, but we will deal with the wounded child, which is a personal experience. My wounded child blocked me in many actions.

S. — What does that have to do with Black women entrepreneurs?

C. — I am a parenting educator, and there is a huge discussion about children’s lives. Many of us lived experiences in which the child was not right, had creativity curtailed, and so on. There are paradigms that neuroscience, child psychology, philosophy, sociology — which even has an exclusive area, child sociology — have been confronting. There are traumas that can be softened. You were a child and your child stays with you for life. We hear things like:

—Shut up!
—You can’t speak!
—Children just have to obey!
—Children have to eat everything!
—Children don’t do science!

And then the adult lives with childhood problems.

There is also the adult who has not grown up, and there is a boom of this issue. Many people are over 30 and cannot leave their parents’ home, cannot work.

This inner child needs to be welcomed, needs to be told that the journey does not have to be marked by traumas.

Details

The workshop is a partnership with the mobilization Afroempreender & Crescer. It is this Friday (the 11th), at 6:30 p.m., at Rua Marechal Deodoro, 450, room 808. Admission is R$ 30. For information, the WhatsApp number is +55 96 98135-3284.