March 19, 2019 witnessed the opening of the Psychological Center of Positive Experience (Shahe Campus) and the first experience day of Virtual Reality (VR) Psychology Laboratory of Beihang University, which were attended by Party Secretary of Beihang University Cao Shumin, President Assistant Zhao Gang and some students.
Party Secretary Cao Shumin learning about sandplay therapy
The new site of the Psychological Center of Positive Experience, which covers an area of 480 square meters with 14 experience spaces of different styles on the 4th and 5th floors of the gymnasium on Shahe Campus, completed construction in December last year. After a test run since the beginning of this term, it was officially declared open to service.
The Psychological Center of Positive Experience is to be of great use to popularize common practices of psychological counseling and guidance on campus, including “Movie&Talk”, sandplay therapy, and so on.
Sandplay therapy
For “Movie&Talk”, students are invited to watch psychological dramas together and discuss about them under the guidance of professionals, during which they dive deep into their own inner world and communicate with themselves.
“Movie&Talk”
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Workshop is led by Ms Wei Lin. Her class is always quiet and calm, facilitating the students’ meditation that shines light on the uniqueness and richness of their life.
MBSR Workshop
In the Mental Guide Room of Art, Ms Sun Jinlu explores the magic of music therapy together with the students by assisting them to follow their flow of psychological changes with simple musical instruments.
Mental Guide Room of Art
As for the VR Psychology Laboratory, it provides students with the immersive psychological experiences of diverse scenes, such as delivering a fantastic speech under great pressure, being on a roller coaster, going on a leisurely trip, and so on. Their pulse data will be recorded dynamically during the process, and the good quality they gain from the virtual experiences is to be mirrored in their real life with time going by.
VR Psychology Laboratory
There are also reading seminars on psychology classics, which serves as an opportunity for students to exchange their views on such books as “What Life Should Mean to You”, deepening their understandings of the subject of psychology.
Reading psychology classics
The university’s Psychological Center of Positive Experience has been recognized as “the best mode of psychological health education” by numerous mainstream media in China. The new site of the Psychological Center of Positive Experience of Beihang University is inaugurated in its 30th year, marking the start of the university’s new journey of psychological health education and talent cultivation.
Reported by Wang Bo, Li Weihua
Photographed by Di Bailu
Reviewed by Dong Zhuoning
Edited by Jia Aiping
Translated by Li Siying
