Online therapeutic groups: a cartography of university life

Abstract

University life requires coping with both formal and informal aspects on and off campus. The objective of this study was to follow the ways of living university life from a remote group device with undergraduate and graduate students at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. Through the Cartography Method, we followed 3 groups of students, in 6 meetings each. We report in a logbook what happened in each meeting, including the participants' affections. The affections narrated were related to aspects outside the classrooms, such as difficulties on the way to campus and in reconciling academic and work demands to support themselves, challenges in housing and violence in relationships. We understand that the university space is composed of instituted forces that established ways of being stiffened, but we recognize instituting forces that made it possible to invent more flexible and healthy ways, in an operation of transversalization.