Thinking with our students

Estimated colleague:
We make come to you a brotherly greeting in these so difficult moments for our country. We entrust that this beginning of classes is for all our students an emotional support that allows them to recapture their ordinariness and from their sentires to summon them for the hope and the valuable of the life.
As Center of Mediation, we want to collaborate in this special beginning of classes, sharing some basic orientations to work with the children and girls:
To re-mean the experience (what is an earthquake?): It is important for the children to be able to deal and elaborate an experience like an earthquake, which is not something daily for them, which impedes to be able to accommodate it cognitive and emotionally. It is important to speak with the children, explaining them in a calm way, without major emotional load, that Chile is a seismic country, how an earthquake happens, which are the natural reasons, etc.

· emotional Expression of the happened:
Later to the previous explanation it is advisable that the children can express the emotions associated with the experience that had.This can be made across such simple forms of expression or communication as the drawing, count the experience, to paint or to realize handicrafts, in order to canalize and to leave the emocionality flow that the child or present girl. In addition it is important that the child shares and converses with his couple, exchanging experiences (it is recommended to work in couples in order that they can socialize all lived).

· affirm:
When the children share their fears or distresses, it is necessary to allow that they can tell, ask them what they feel, in order to identify to what element there is related his dread (fall of house, lost of relatives, etc.), to comment on it, to calm them, assuring company and permanent care them.

" Let's remember that the children learn our styles of expressing the fears " As adults it is advisable to support the calmness, to project to the children and girls tranquility and safety.