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[Body experience workshop: movement, reflection, and self-appropriation].

J R Brêtas·F Q Santos
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The present study approaches an innovative activity in the Nursing teaching area. This activity, theoretical-experiential, known as the "Corporal Experience Workshop" is intended to promote body awareness, understand the fundamentals related to corporality, and improve the reflections about the own self and the "other's" body when undergoing nursing care. The investigation was carried out with first grade undergraduation Nursing students of the Universidade Federal de São Paulo--UNIFESP/EPM, and presents a descriptive study where the phenomenon is described and explained, and at the same time, it seeks to investigate some aspects concerning experiences the participating 202 students were submitted to during the activities developed in the workshops, during in the years 1997, 1998 and 1999.

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J R Brêtas, F Q Santos. 2001. [Body experience workshop: movement, reflection, and self-appropriation].. https://doi.org/10.1590/s0080-62342001000300007

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