Inventive and participatory healing spaces: Teaching and action/reflection on the everyday lives of students during the pandemic

ABSTRACT

Considering the lack of effective and affective spaces for creating, reflecting and listening that promote the teaching-learning process during the Covid-19 pandemic, we developed a project entitled Inventive and Participatory Healing Spaces. This work describes the experiences of this project, whose aim was to contribute to the professional training of occupational therapists, fostering the development of spaces of expression, welcoming and study. The results are grouped into the following four categories weaving experience lived healing spaces;healing spaces that connected forming a collective;teaching and healing spaces contributions to professional training;and other resonances. The findings show that the project met its objectives, providing a less traditional experience within academic teaching. The project was committed to relations between the students and their daily lives during the pandemic.