Analysis of psychological change in young people from an artistic group in Medellin-Colombia

The psychosocial factors that promoted the psychological change produced in six young people from the Carpinelo neighborhood (Commune 1) of the city of Medellin-Colombia, graduated from the "Derecho a Sonar" (Right to Dream) program of the Ciudad Don Bosco Institution and members of the artistic collective nativos are described and analyzed. The methodology used was qualitative; Through interviews and participant observation, data on the change process (beginning and evolution) were collected, which were processed through triangulation and, later, analyzed from some theories and concepts of social psychology and post-Freudian psychoanalysis. Specifically, the incidence of art, the break dance type of dance, was analyzed as a psychosocial intervention strategy that promoted psychological change in these young people, so that they would re-signify their life stories and reconstruct their personal identities as dancers and social leaders who currently carry out artistic activities of prevention of psychosocial problems and promotion of healthy lifestyles with children and adolescents in the sector, through dance.