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Considering that the notion we have of women is the result of changes throughout human history, and that becoming a woman is a learning that occurs throughout life, this study aimed to comprehend how the participation of women in Women Circles Tenda da Terra and Tenda da Lua, originated in Porto Alegre, RS, understood as promoting a holistic education, contributes to the process of learning to be a woman. It was aimed to identify the most significant learnings as perceived by the participants themselves, and changes in their way of being in the world afforded by participation in these circles. Using life stories as a research methodology, individual interviews with six participants of the 16th generation and the founder of these women circles were done, and after being transcribed, they were analyzed according to content analysis and discursive textual analysis. It was noted that participation in the circles made these women learn to reframe their primary relationships, abandoning masks, staring at their shadows and becoming more authentic. Also, they learned to live meaningfully with other women and also with themselves, through restoring the sacredness of women and ritualization of everyday life. Finally, they became more integrated internally and externally, balancing their masculine and feminine dimensions and establishing new ways of relating to male and female in the context they live. These results confirm the processuality of the learning to be a woman and the importance of having conditions that promote the inherent changes in this process, highlighting the need for an education capable of rescuing forgotten dimensions and relations of each woman with herself, with other women, with men and with other beings in the cosmos. |
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