Rap Workshop for Personal Empowerment

The Rap workshop, led by the Rapper Kashi, is a therapeutic tool for teenagers who suffer from low self-esteem, who don’t believe in their capabilities, but do believe in music.

The participants who are chosen to take part in the workshop are chosen after a great deal of thought, in order for the group process to be as influential and meaningful as possible. The participants, in turn, commit themselves to the process. A social worker who knows the participants accompanies the sessions and makes sure that each one receives the personal care they need. In addition, the social worker makes sure to update the therapeutic team of the participants on the process that each participate is going through, in order to tie the workshop to the personal therapies the teenagers receive. It is very important to share the process with the educational and therapeutic teams of the Village.

The workshop includes 15 sessions where they learn about the music world – glossary, content, etc.. The workshop provides the children the framework and allows them to find their way to learn who to study; sit down, take out a pen and blank page, listen, take notes, write and… create... The workshop creates successful learning experience even for children with learning difficulties.

The students find the way to turn the material they learned into their own personal creation, develop their personal identities as artist, self-confidence and self-love. The group work allows each participant to find themselves within processes of group dynamics and bring out the maximum from the process the group go through together.

Written by Liora Rosenberg – the head of therapeutic team, Neve Ha’Roe Children’s Village, Ashkelon