Abstract

Introduction: This article recounts the experience of a theater workshop conducted in a hospital school with children under diverse health conditions in 2011. The work became a possibility of art diffusion as a therapeutic tool and an invitation to reflect on disability and its real and/or symbolically constructed limitations. The central problem focused on identifying the presence of Occupational Risk Factors and Occupational Apartheid in the school achievement of the hospital school children and the author. Problems caused by environmental elements as well as by symbolic-social constructions generated by the idea of disability were observed. Objective: To describe the impact generated by a theater workshop as a therapeutic means in a children's hospital school environment. Method: The autoethnographic methodology was chosen to validate the experience of the investigator as a source of information. Results: The ideas on Occupational Risk Factors, Occupational Apartheid, as well as the concepts developed in the workshop and those used to combat adverse conditions were theoretically analyzed. Conclusion: It is necessary that we experiment contexts that enable spaces free of evaluation and the freedom to use, enjoy and express all our abilities. We must be certain that the body keeps track of past experiences that potentialize the resilience of the soul, which we all deserve to have and which opens the path to the possibility of destroying our predetermined conditions.