The 'Psico Woman' project helps more than half a thousand students from the municipality of the so-called Generation Z to recognize themselves and understand 'Love 3.0 Other ways of living love are possible', with a series of talks given by the psychologist , sexologist and systemic family therapist, Isa Duque, with updated educational tools that are easily recognizable by the group.
'Psico Woman', promoted by the Equality Department of the Villa de Ingenio City Council, began this Monday at the Federico García Lorca Cultural Center in Ingenio and will take place throughout the week in the IES Ingenio assembly hall, in morning schedule, and on Thursday, at 18.00:XNUMX p.m., at the headquarters of the Los Molinillos Neighborhood Association, with free entry.
The activity for students between 14 and 15 years old focused on dismantling the myths of romantic love, showing the benefits of a healthy experience of love, free of inequalities, and offering a critical vision of the control and harassment mechanisms currently present. in communication through social networks, in addition to promoting relationship models based on good treatment. 'Psico Woman' also offers students to ask questions anonymously through Instagram about issues that concern them or contributions from personal experiences.
The Councilor for Equality, Elena Suárez, states that “what we intend with this initiative aimed at adolescents is to promote these models of relationships and support with good treatment, because we must understand that other ways of loving each other are possible and we often forget. because they haven't told us either.” The councilor emphasizes that "we remain committed to developing prevention, awareness and education actions, because we understand that only in this way will we move towards a fairer and more egalitarian society."
For her part, Isa Duque, who is accompanied by Cristina Chinchilla, responsible for the technical and audiovisual part of the project, explains that “one of the current problems is that juvenophobia, technophobia and neophobia come together, negative beliefs associated with youth, technology and novelty, respectively, and most of the news that is given about adolescents is done in a negative way, criminalizing this Generation Z and their entire world; their way of communicating, relating and living.
Duque, who also declares himself a cyberactivist for his defense of the use of information and communication technologies to participate in movements, especially of a political or social nature, affirms that “having been born with an 'extension' of the body in telephone format "Intelligent means that, along with other aspects, it is sometimes difficult for us to know how to accompany today's youth, Generation Z, people born between 1994-2010, posing a great challenge for many people to understand their universe and their ways of relating."
Isa Duque is also the author of the book 'Getting closer to generation Z. A practical guide to understanding today's youth without prejudice'.