——Wenjiang Middle School in Sichuan Province held the "March 8" Goddess Festival Flower Arrangement Psychological Salon Activity
In order to celebrate the annual "March 8" Goddess Day and improve the happiness of female teachers and staff, on the morning of March 8, 2022, Wenjiang Middle School held a teacher's flower arrangement psychological salon activity with the theme of "Pleasing One's Life in the Name of Flowers" in the auxiliary room of the school psychological group.
The event was presided over by He Sha, a school psychology teacher, and a total of 38 teachers participated in the school. Teachers borrow flowers and trees to combine the mind and plants, nourish the heart with flowers, educate people with beauty, relieve physical and mental stress, and achieve the "healing" effect of psychological empowerment.
In life, women have many identities: "daughter", "wife", "mother"..... These identities are both the source of women's happiness and the meaning of their lives themselves, but behind these identities, women are first and foremost themselves. At the beginning of the activity, Teacher He invited the teachers to remove the stereotyped, symbolic, and label-like imagination of the body, see themselves in the real life experience, hear the voice that is obscured, know more about themselves, care for themselves, and discover more aspects of their lives.
Teacher He combined psychological skills to lead everyone to touch the sense of flowers, smell the flowers, appreciate the flowers, listen to the voice of the heart, and pay attention to the present through the five senses mindfulness exercises, and obtain the flow experience of the moment of concentration. Every flower has its own uniqueness, each leaf is expressing a voice, and each of us is unique and full of meaning.
In the process of flower arrangement, Teacher He explained the flower arrangement techniques one by one. When choosing flowers, according to their own personality preferences to choose flowers, you can also borrow flowers to express their emotions, and then the teachers carefully selected the flowers, with dexterous hands to make a bouquet of unique, profound flower arrangement works. Teachers in the process of flower arrangement peace, inward dialogue with self, outward dialogue with nature, bouquets of flowers show the unique charm of each teacher, the scene to create a happy atmosphere.
Finally, Mr. He explained how to maintain his flower arrangement works around "Teachers' Self-Care", and the teachers wrote down their blessings on the exquisite cards. The teachers' works have their own characteristics, showing the beauty of different postures, just as each woman has a unique and gentle power, which has a thousand different manifestations.
The one-hour flower arrangement psychological salon ended with soothing music, and the teachers did not want to leave, and they all picked up their flower baskets to take pictures. Through the immersive experience of flower arrangement activities, teachers conduct sensory experience, self-exploration and self-release, integrate the warmth of life and love for flowers into floral creation, feel the vigor of nature, and enhance the sensitivity of life.
This flower arrangement psychological salon is one of the important activities of the school to "empower teachers with psychology", trying to start from the professional field of psychology, carry out a series of special activities such as teacher psychological group aids, lectures, and reading a book together, hoping to help teachers reduce stress with the help of psychology, so that teachers can use the perspective of psychology to take care of and empower themselves, and devote themselves to work and life with healthier emotions and vitality. (Written by He Sha)