Abstract
The past decade has seen a rise in literature that explores organisational activities from the perspective of space, but little work has been done in reference to liminal spaces in different settings and contexts. Liminal spaces are spaces on the border of two dominant spaces. The current study contributes to the literature of liminal space in the vocational training setting, specifically in the extreme context of prisons by using a phenomenological case study design. The study conducted 65 face-to-face interviews, triangulated by secondary sources to inform the results. The study’s contribution is establishing that the training space is a liminal space, owing to the blurred boundaries, as well as having a structure of its own, independent of the institution’s structure. This structure is open-air in nature and inhabits boundlessness that makes the prisoners feel ‘human first’ while fostering agency.