Written by Student Affairs Office
5th May 2021

On the afternoon of the 28th of April 2021, the third phase of the group psychological counseling activity hosted by the Student Union of the graduate students of the International Business School (IBS) was successfully held in Classroom 409 in the Student Activity Centre. The group leader of this activity was Zhang Wei, who is an intern consultant in The Mental Health Service Center of Beijing Normal University and Beijing International Studies University. The theme of the activity was “Light Moving forward-College students reducing stress”[E2]. A total of 10 graduate students from the 2020 class of IBS participated in the activity.

At the commencement of the activity, Mr. Zhang Wei started by livening up the atmosphere with some interesting games, and drew himself closer to the students. Subsequently, the students were asked to paint their own images [E3]on blank white paper, use different colours to express their physical and psychological conditions, and introduce their own images to share their own pressure and negative emotions[E4]. Then, Mr. Zhang asked the audience to discuss the common pressures that students these days face at the current stage of their lives. Through mutual advice and self-counseling, the theme of the activity was on “How to detect and relief stresses”. Finally, the instructor helped students to learn how to relief current pressures and shared appropriate stress reduction methods through personal experience.

This group psychological counseling activity allowed students to learn in the face of pressure, how to adjust themselves mentally, overcome negative emotions, and avoid bringing heavy burden upon themselves. At the same time, the activity answers the students in the face of some pressure of some negative emotions and influence, and to the students introduced how to detect their reflection of stress mode and how to correct decompression, help students relieve stress in daily study and life, with a happy and broad state of mind to study and work.[E5]

[E1]Not sure
[E2]No idea how to amend. Sounds funny
[E3]I don’t fully understand what is “own images” here.
[E4]I don’t understand this either
[E5]No idea how to amend this. Not very certain what this sentence is saying