Life Stories of Quilombolas Community Leaders: an extensionist experience of psychosocial intervention in the pandemic

Abstract

The present work aims at socializing the extensionist experience report of the project Psychosocial Workshops: strengthening family and community bonds in Brumadinho of the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais (PUC Minas), which aims at the psychosocial intervention in three communities in Brumadinho/MG affected by the rupture of the Vale mining company dam: Ponte das Almorreimas, AcampamentoPátria Livre of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and Quilombola Communities. Based on the necessary transformation of the conditions for field work in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, we aim to report our experience with the communities by remote means. In order to reflect on the construction of the methodology in which the activities were established, we highlight the reports of life stories, because this way of doing has generated a lot of learning and bonds between extensionists and communities. The process shows that, even in the face of social crossings and unstable access to the media, it is possible to carry out a psychosocial intervention work that enhances the cultural memory and creates bonds, a space for coexistence, and affection between the university and the community.