Seeds of art: a community intervention based on the principles of expressive arts therapy, developed with migrant women

This article describes a community intervention based on the principles of expressive arts therapy, developed with a group of migrant women in poverty, in Lima, Peru, carried out in two phases and a subsequent follow-up. The project arose through coordination between the NGO "The Light and Leadership Initiative" and TAE Peru. The report has a qualitative approach, the method used was participant observation and the techniques used were observation, interview, and field notetaking. The main conclusions of the community intervention point to a dynamic and questioning effect on the self-perception of the participants in relation to their skills and resources and their role in the family.