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Rounds of conversation were what we wanted. One great big chat.

The female oral tradition of reflective conversations capable of promoting growth and transformation — so well described by the American therapist Mary Olson in Construcciones de la experiencia humana (Constructions of the Human Experience) by Pakman et al. — inspired the way in which we would conduct our study.

In women, voice, mind, and subjectivity are intertwined. This results in an inner voice, which is both a remedy and an antidote for emotional and psychological difficulties.

This concept of “inner voice” resonated directly with our readings on the social construction of narratives and the creation of contexts of reflection.

We realized that we had been talking at various levels: the individual, the dialogic, and the conceptual.

How would we go about also making this happen in the chats?

It would be necessary to listen to the conversations between the women and our own conversations — many of them silent — to create multiple contexts of reflection.

At the same time, the chat with time and with the literature broadened our vision and grounded us in the subject. With these readings we articulated concepts to better anchor the conversations that would be the basis of our work: the chat with the women.