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Within the “Madrid, a Healthy City” (Madrid Salud) strategy, the “ReiaManí Universe” is developed, an artistic mediation initiative that was born thanks to the Art and Health scholarship together with the Socio-educational and Pre-employment Support Program for Adolescents (ASPA). Artistic-educational workshops are carried out with young people at a social disadvantage, with difficulties managing their emotions and establishing relationships with equals. These creative workshops promote skills for cohesion and social support as protective factors against unwanted loneliness and psychological suffering. Their main objective is to build an emotionally safe environment through art-health relationships and their own imaginative and self-finding processes. These workshops have been based on the creation of playful and artistic materials for the participants, thus working on aspects of community health and well-being through comics, stickers, action figures, and board games. The methodology is proposed from an action-research perspective, with flexible planning to adapt to collective needs, concluding that the collective construction of the “ReiaManí Universe” has fostered group coexistence and the development of social, emotional, and creative skills.
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The conclusions are:
- Throughout the workshop, psychosocial and community issues have been worked on, allowing the participating group to acquire different skills for life and for their transition to adulthood. The workshop has improved skills such as: empathy, assertive communication, creative thinking, management of emotions and tensions, personal relationships and self-knowledge. This is enhanced by the development of emotional management skills and protective factors.
- Participants have acquired strategies and skills to improve their well-being. This is possible due to the work of an interdisciplinary team. Thus, the activities (artistic mediation and the relationship between art and socio-health) are a significant support for the socio-educational development of the adolescent population, promoting intergenerational spaces, and reinforcing or increasing a sense of belonging among peers and with other agents involved in the accompaniment. Emotional management is encouraged, generating environments of confidence, self-knowledge and involvement with the future.
- It can be concluded that the development of different artistic formats has served to address their own problems. Thus, the collective construction of the "ReiaManí Universe" has fostered the relationship and identification between peers, group coexistence and the development of social, communicative, emotional and creative skills. The workshop has motivated the commitment of the population to the centre's activities, integrating it into their routines as a time and space for improvement and well-being.