Introduction: managers request tasks inconsistent with their specific duties due to lack of knowledge regarding PH profession when interacting with Public Health (PH) students of the University of Brasília, for the Supervised Practice in Public Health 1(SPPH/1) at Primary Health Care Unit-5 (PHCU-5). The students have little connection with their future profession, so they had to reflect about the PH worker attributions in the National Health Service. Aim: to analyze the students' perception of the learning process in the SPPH/1 for the mobilization of the Local Health Unit Management Council (LHUMC). Methodology: action research, Content Analysis and the Theory of Communicative Action. The field diary of 6 students’ reports were the corpus from which the categories of analysis emerged. Result: The teaching-learning process in the SPPH/1 included the constitution of the LHUMC in PHCU-5. The following categories for teaching-learning emerged after content analysis: "skills developed in vocational training", "consensus reached for the mobilization of the LHUMC " and "challenges for the implementation of the LHUMC". Throughout the process, students realized the need to develop listening skills, dialogue with social groups, negotiation, consensus building. In order to change, they established a network that stimulated debate and consensus involving the manager of PHCU-5, the institutions participating in the LHUMC elective process, the Health Council, the District Council. Conclusion: In the process of constitution of the LHUMC, students realized the importance of community mobilization to break with individualism and the need to strengthen democratic bodies of the LHUMC in exercising citizenship. Conversation among social actors, allowed their insertion in a pedagogical dynamic that articulated the community, the environment and the knowledge.