The Department of Social Welfare of the Cabildo of Lanzarote has financed the project Resilience and positive attitude in people deprived of liberty through laughter, which was carried out in the Tahíche Penitentiary Center between the months of March to December of last year.
The initiative, developed through weekly workshops, had nearly a hundred participants who learned to increase their self-esteem and acquire a more optimistic view of life using humor and laughter as tools to improve people's mental, emotional and physical health.
Specifically, the project has been based on the positive impact that creativity, humor and artistic experience have on people deprived of liberty, and on the proven capacity of laughter therapy as a therapeutic technique that generates a positive effect on mood.
Through recreational activities, breathing exercises and group dynamics, the women and men participating in the project, financed with 14,800 euros by the Lanzarote Cabildo, learned to combat stress, unlock tensions, dispel feelings of frustration, de-dramatize situations and improve social relations.
Marci Acuña, who attended the closing of the project last Thursday with the corresponding delivery of accreditation diplomas, stressed in this regard the "commitment" of the Island Corporation "to continue providing support to all those actions that contribute to the social reintegration of people deprived of liberty."