Weaving empathic skills: an experience with children and adolescents

Abstract

Objective: To report the experiences arising from the application of an intervention project carried out in a Youth Center. Case Detail: The project is the result of the Basic Internship in Social and Community Psychology. The interventions were carried out during eight meetings with the youth and children audience of the Youth Center of a municipality in the interior of Maranhão, during the first semester of 2019. The activities were carried out with approximately thirty assisted and the instruments were selected to act in favor of the collective. For this, we used the group dynamics and cooperative games in order to stimulate empathy and promote self-knowledge and recognition of others in the assisted of this equipment. Final Considerations: The use of dynamic and cooperative activities proved to be effective for the practice of respect, listening and a new look on the other, thus contributing to the strengthening of bond between the assisted and promotes well-being.