The study analyzes on a set of state-funded pedagogical activities aimed at women as vulnerable, promoting gender consciousness in addressing issues such as excercise of rights, political an social participation an other matters related to woman's empowerment. There are "Talleres para Mujeres" ("Workshops for Women"), administered by the Fundacion para la Promocion y Desarrollo de la Mujer (Foundation for the Promotion and Development of Women, Prodemu), and specifically the "Taller de Desarrollo Personal" ("Personal Development Workshop") of Pishuinco sector in the Commune of Valdivia, between April and June of 2015. Founded in ethnographic methodology, this research uses anthropology of gender, popular education and feminist pedagogy, and incorporates reflections ranging from feminism of the second wave to the post-colonial feminism to problematize the experience described, highlighting the potential of collective processes consciousness, while putting question the phenomenon of gender consciousness building itself.