“Reading, Copying, and Meditating to Grow the Heart Muscle”
Step-by-Step Copying Notebook Development·Meditation Content Production
Chungbuk Office of Education Launches ‘Heart Touch’ Project for Students’ Mental Health
The Chungbuk Office of Education is introducing a new program aimed at enhancing the mental health of students in the digital immersion era. The ‘Heart Touch’ project, starting in June, is a Chungbuk-style mental health initiative that aims to strengthen students' heart muscles through copying and meditation.
This project, which means ‘Writing and Filling the Heart, and Caressing the Heart to Fill Myself,’ is designed as an alternative activity to address the digital immersion issues faced by modern students.
Before the project implementation, the Chungbuk Office of Education conducted meditation content production with students from Cheongju Nampyeong Elementary School, Solbat Middle School, and Chungbuk Arts High School, along with teachers from the meditation support team, over two days starting May 12. This content is designed to be easily practiced by students in various educational environments such as during morning assembly, after lunch, in subject-related classes, and during school autonomous activity time.
Notably, students directly participate in the entire process of creating meditation content. From planning to content conception, animation production, dance, and acting, students' ideas and talents are reflected, greatly enhancing the applicability in the field.
Meanwhile, a copying support team consisting of 200 faculty members in the province is developing a copying program suitable for students' growth stages. They are collecting appropriate copying materials and creating customized copying notebooks after expert review. The copying notebooks will be divided into two types for elementary school and two types for middle and high school, consisting of step-by-step content considering developmental stages and educational curricula.
A representative from the Chungbuk Office of Education stated, “This program, which links reading, copying, and meditation, will help prevent the negative effects of digital immersion and support students' emotional stability,” and added, “After completing content development by supplementing the cases of on-site support team teachers, we plan to distribute it to schools starting in June.”
The ‘Heart Touch’ project is being evaluated as an innovative attempt by the Chungbuk Office of Education to provide analog thinking and emotional relaxation to students in the digital age, thereby supporting balanced growth.
Oh Ji-hyun, Editor of Healing News