Delicate formative experiences: Weaving spaces of care and teaching with university students during the pandemic (abstract: P 13)

ABSTRACT

Educational processes have demanded and enabled professors and students to design and live training and care experiences in response to the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. This study documents a formative experience with occupational therapy students from a public university during the pandemic. The experience was analyzed in two moments that we call “breaths”. During the first moment, we held virtual voluntarily attended talking circles with students;in the second, through an optional module offered to students, artistic and bodily practices were taught as devices for care, expression and bodily connection. The students highlighted the importance of creating a trusted environment and supporting a collective proposal, enabling the construction of sensitive, inventive and critical bodies, which is essential for professional practice. © 2022, Fundacao UNI Botucatu/UNESP. All rights reserved.