The way we relate to other people has a lot to do with the bond we form with our mother from the womb. Learning to form that bond in a complicated environment or at a distance is somewhat difficult, however, we are convinced that if worked on properly, this emotional relationship can be lasting, since a solid and healthy relationship with one's mother is associated with a high probability of establishing healthy relationships with others.

Through this workshop, we aim for incarcerated mothers to learn to bond with their children through love, responsibility, and respect. Much of this workshop is approached from experience and support towards a stable and harmonious relationship with their children despite the distance and lack of communication.

We share strategies with them to continue educating or to educate despite their current situation. We work on the hierarchical relationship towards respect for being mothers and not for moral reasons. We address techniques to identify and prevent risky behaviors in their children. Likewise, experiences and concepts about parenting styles are shared: authoritarian, permissive, neglectful, and democratic, with their pros and cons for each.

This workshop works under two schemes: for women to recover the bond with their children if they have lost it, to maintain it, and to form it to establish a healthy attachment behavior in their children in their different life stages, and for motherhood and parenting to always be exercised by seeing the other with respect, love, and above all as a capable and autonomous being.

FIRST EDITION 2017. "Responsible Motherhood" Workshop

We benefited a total of 17 women in the Nezahualcóyotl Sur prison for an approximate duration from February to March 2017.

SECOND EDITION 2019. "Motherhood and Parenting" Workshop

We brought our workshop to the Ecatepec Prison and had the participation of 27 women deprived of their liberty and their young children, during 6 weeks of 90 minutes per session.