This article is based on a research aimed at analyzing conceptions around adolescence and human development mediating social educative interventions in the context of a social circus. Participants: adolescents; technical staff; trainees; and, the researcher himself. The results were generated considering the following meaning complexes: (a) the potential of circus techniques as mediation tools in promoting innovative trajectories of human development; (b) personal improvements in the domain of tools and techniques as the focus of the follow up and evaluation process of the adolescent; (c) adolescence as a stage of life cycle; (d) social risk and vulnerability alternating as char acteristics of the subject or the context. The necessity that institutional agents search for a deeper comprehension of the process of personal transformation that takes place along adolescence is an important point of discussion.
Adolescence; Human Development; Social-Educative Project