Fondamentaux - Module 9 - chap 1 (EN)

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Module 9: Group care: workshops

Chapter 1: Workshop objectives and process

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Group care: workshops

The socio-hairdresser takes an ethical approach to his work, helping to create the conditions in which the people he works with can play an active role in strengthening social ties and, in some cases, solidarity in the places where they live.

Setting up workshops is a tool for approaching customers who will not naturally come to an individual appointment for various reasons: fear of making an appointment, fear of entering a salon, fear of other people's gaze, fear of expressing themselves, fear of not being understood or judged, lack of means, etc. In this sense, running workshops meets a number of objectives:

• it helps to maintain the development of social ties,
• ensures simulation activity,
• and promotes, encourages and supports group integration through hair care workshops.

It involves several dimensions of the individual that need to be taken into account:

• Animation helps people to live their daily lives, reinforcing their sometimes fragile self-image.
• Animation of lifestyle habits reinforces the meaning that each person gives to his or her life.
• Activities provide the reference points people need to make their lives more secure.
• Recreational activities encourage people to express themselves, to be and to exist, so that they can continue to fulfill their potential.
• The emotional and communicative aspects of entertainment enable people to take charge of their relationships.
• Recreational activities enable people to continue their lives by remaining close to their interests, personality and life history.

Workshops are a tool for supporting each resident. They are part of the overall approach, not just an activity. They must be based on listening to the person and his or her free choice.

The approach will be to meet the person's needs

Need for realization

Need for recognition

Need to belong

act in harmony with your values, tastes and interests so as to make the most of your skills and potential

valuing: being considered through what you do what we achieve, what we do, what we say

belonging to a family or group, feeling recognized and identified. Feeling safe and protected, sharing the same values, exchanging ideas, having special relationships.

The workshops are designed to meet health, prevention and education objectives, and are an integral part of the person's life project.

They help maintain or create social ties, develop cognitive and creative skills, enhance individual self-esteem and convey important preventive and educational messages. They are thought through, prepared and discussed by the team, if there is one, with the individual at the center of the project and the activities. Activities become a means of communication in which the relational aspect is privileged. Activities support social life and are proposed in line with the objectives of the entertainment project. They are collective, recreational and cultural in order to meet your customer's needs.

In addition to the above-mentioned objectives, the workshops naturally meet the need for hygiene and comfort, as well as safety (prevention of skin diseases and infections).

They will be the expression of the socio-hairdresser's educational axis through the transmission of knowledge and skills around the hair. A workshop is a place for exchange and transmission. The socio-hairdresser will be called on for his or her hair expertise, and his or her intervention will form part of nursing care, in collaboration with the teams. In prisons and in the social sector, the proposed workshops will help to enhance a physical appearance that is often neglected. They can also be included in employment or social reintegration programs, as part of an educational dynamic designed to make people responsible for “taking care of themselves”.

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The objectives will be :

• Provide hygiene and comfort
• Ensure safety in the prevention of dermatoses and parasitic infections
• Regain self-confidence and reassurance
• Reclaim your body
• Regain body awareness
• Rediscover new physical reference points, taking into account bodily changes
• Rregain a taste for self-care
• Take a fresh look at yourself
• Enhance one's self-esteem - please oneself
• Enable others to see themselves in a different light
• Preserve or regain autonomy through styling gestures
• Work on fine motor skills
• Work on memory (gestures-objects-senses)
• Express one's personality and identity
• Create links
• Participate in the social fabric
• Create solidarity
• Create new temporal reference points (holidays, birthdays, etc.)