Monday Talks

Paulo Silveira: living ON the street and living FROM the street

A conversation on the difference between homelessness and the work of waste pickers, opening questions about addiction and rights.

Marcelo Jaccoud and prosecutor Tiago Joffily

The conversation addresses health, homelessness and the Seguir em Frente programme in the city of Rio de Janeiro.

Varella Junior: Ruas Visíveis 2

Varella returns to explore the Ruas Visíveis programme and essential issues such as preparing public safety forces.

Welcoming people with addiction, Paulo Silveira

Paulo presents care through the Observatory's methodology and the central role of social exclusion in addiction.

Racism, Hélio de La Peña

Hélio shares life experiences and reflections on racism, stability, activism and the many layers of this challenge.

Shelter for people experiencing homelessness, Marcelo Jaccoud

Marcelo recounts running a shelter for thirty men experiencing homelessness, with sensitivity and attentive listening.

Varella Junior: Ruas Visíveis

The first in a series of conversations about the federal Ruas Visíveis programme and policies for people experiencing homelessness.

Housing First, Paulo Silveira

The conversation addresses housing for people experiencing homelessness and the Ruas Visíveis programme, focusing on the right to a home.

Welcoming the person with addiction, Paulo Silveira

Paulo continues the cycle on the Observatory's approach and ways of welcoming people who see themselves as addicted.

Ngoma Capoeira Angola

This conversation opens a cycle on racism, creating an open space to work collectively through experience and ways forward.

Frei Betto

Frei Betto speaks about hoping through action: turning hope into participation in the change we want to make.

Paulo Silveira

Paulo advances techniques developed over many years to support people who wish to stop doing something against their own will.

Paulo Silveira introduces Rat Park

An introductory conversation that places the Rat Park experiment in the social and political context of its time.

Father Júlio Lancellotti

The conversation invites reflection on failure and success through listening to homeless people and Darcy Ribeiro's teachings.

Therapeutic Communities, Emerson Merhy

Emerson Merhy shares a historical reading of therapeutic communities in Brazil and abroad.