Abstract
Objective: to report an experience of a group exercise with psychiatric patients of a Hospital of Brief Hospital of Belém. Experience report: This is a descriptive study, of the type of experience, about the experience of nursing academics in conducting psychiatric activities in a short-stay hospital in a general hospital, and it is planned and executed by a team of professionals and academics. After elaborating a plan of action, a group walk with patients was launched at a snack bar in the hospital. In mental health, the development of surgical groups allows patients to face the fears, anxieties and guilts and conflicts present in daily life. In this way, it is an effective strategy of help without the treatment of the patients, besides being low cost. In this experience, it was possible to verify the process during the execution as a process of seeking autonomy and valorization of citizenship, lost through the crisis process. Final considerations: Through the good practices in the care of the patients of this study, it was possible to observe the accomplishment of activities that put the patients as a protagonist in the society that lives, promoting a care in the humanization.