Mental Salon - Explore Emotional Journey

At noon on November 1st, Liu Xiang, the teacher of Zhejiang Guanxin Charity Development Support Center, invited by the Gongshu District Federation of Trade Unions, hosted a psychological salon for the staff of the Hengyu Construction Co., Ltd.—exploring the emotional journey.

In order to facilitate the participation of front-line workers in this salon, the venue was specially arranged in the conference room of the Project Department of the Commercial Complex of the Gongyu Group Co., Ltd. and arranged for the lunch break. When Liu was designing the salon, he considered that the staff should be sleepy at noon. At the beginning of the ceremony, he arranged a meditation and relaxation activity—a body scan.

The activity began, everyone slowly entered the state with the audio played by the teacher, and then each participant felt a different degree of relaxation. Some people later reported that they were asleep. Teacher Liu explained that this is not really asleep, but rather into a state of relaxation similar to hypnosis. In such a state, the rest works well. Ten minutes of meditation can be worth an hour's worth of traditional sleep.

Then Mr. Liu and the participating partners read together and raised their hands to confirm the group convention. Among them, the one that was impressive was the secrecy. Mr. Liu deliberately adopted the "important things to say three times" approach to emphasize. The reason why the emphasis is on confidentiality is because this salon is psychological and it also involves the sharing of some personal private content. The secret is to create a safe atmosphere for sharing. In addition to confidentiality, there are principles such as no evaluation and no recommendation.

After everyone raised their hands and agreed to abide, the journey of emotional exploration began. Under the guidance of Teacher Liu, everyone first recalled an emotional experience that made them uncomfortable, and carried out a series of work on this emotion, experiencing it from a physical perspective, writing down the situation in which this emotion occurred, and The viewer's perspective describes the situation at the time, and finally describes the situation from the perspective of a "journalist." After these emotional experiences are described in multiple angles, everyone has a pair of two-by-one exercises to narrate and listen: the person who confides There are 3 minutes to tell. The people listening only listen and don't respond. After the two rounds of practice, the general feedback was very rewarding and the results of such talks and listening were very good.

At the end of the conversation, Liu also guided everyone to "handle" the three sheets of paper that wrote down the emotions and their situations. Most of the partners chose to tear them out, and they said "Tear is so cool".

In the end, everyone did an action to represent their own feelings at the moment. Before the end of the event, everyone used one or two sentences to sum up their impressive part in Sharon or the place where they had gained a lot. At this point, everyone is truly relaxed, and most of the partners express their interest in listening to each other. From this point of view, in such a fast-paced life, we really need an ideal channel for narration. At the same time, if we can practice to be a good listener, it will be a very good start.

Liu combined with the project's production and construction situation pointed out the common psychological problems caused by work stress, life pressure, organizational pressure, social pressure, depression, anxiety, environmental discomfort, interpersonal discomfort, etc., and then analyzed the emergence of common psychological problems. The reason for this, and put forward suggestions for the adjustment of personal psychological problems, won the unanimous recognition of the participants, the atmosphere of the salon is harmonious and interactive. Yao Boyong, the project manager, said with emotion: "There are many young people on the construction site, and the work is tedious and boring. There are few holidays and the scope of communication is very narrow. Many young people who come are very uncomfortable, and they need to channel this emotion. This psychological salon activity is responding to the needs of young people."