The project aims to organise an autobiographical activity within the prisons to promote and encourage the reconsideration of the past and the planning of the future “beyond the bars”.
In short, the goals of “The chrysalis and the butterfly” project are :
- Creating a space for reflection on specific topics to allow prisoners to redefine their lives during and after their experience in prison;
- Strengthening the identity and the self-esteem;
- Encouraging and motivating prisoners to describe their personal experiences and to communicate – even within a European context – the difficulties of living in prisons;
- Comparing the outcome of the Erasmus project with similar experiences of other European prisons;
- Presenting their work to the regional networks operating within the prisons;
- Spreading the produced papers and multimedia at the end of the project;
- Share the results of the project with the European partners involved;
- Making the chosen methodology (autobiography) a common didactic practice in the educational processes for adult prisoners.
