The aim of this study was to analyze the role of an elderly group in the development of writing activities directed to one of the participants of this group, which was consolidated after a Language Workshop. This case report was based on an interpretative paradigm, which includes subjectivity, interests, emotions, and personal values. Transcription analyses of the semi-structured interview conducted with a n 85-year-old member of a Language Workshop from Curitiba (PR, Brazil), were performed. To the interviewee, the Workshop is an empowering environment, that makes her feel encouraged and welcome in the group, and that allow her to expose life facts through writing. It was her participation in the group that, according to her own report, awakened the desire and courage to remember, rearrange and translate her stories into words, so that others could read them. The close relationship between the bond between the interviewee and the group and her possibilities of written production is evident. Participating in the group has been generating changes and transformations in her way to relate to her written productions elaborated during the organization of reports of her life stories in the group and to the group.
Aging; Handwriting; Group structure; Interpersonal relations; Language arts