“A therapy in everyday life: expressing the heart while eating”
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2012
From Nutrition Teacher Training to Nationwide Courses
In January I gave a special lecture on Food Expressive Arts Therapy for Level 1 nutrition teacher training at the Korea Education Training Institute in Bangbae-dong. The teachers asked so many eager questions about how food materials can be used in counseling.
Regular association training and Level 1 expert courses spread to Seoul and Gyeonggi, Asan and Gyeongnam, and the number of experts working with us grew greatly.
January 2012, special lecture on Food Expressive Arts Therapy for Level 1 nutrition teachers at the Korea Education Training Institute 
2012 regular training of the Korea Food Expressive Arts Therapy Association -
March 2012
Going to America for the First Time
At the invitation of Ms. Lee Si-eun, who had taken the expert course with us in 2008, I visited New Jersey, met Principal Won Hye-kyung, and spent two weeks in New York and New Jersey.
I held a special lecture on Food Expressive Arts Therapy for the Korean community there, and an article titled “New psychotherapy proves effective” ran on page 8 of The Korea Times (US edition).
Article on Food Expressive Arts Therapy in The Korea Times (US edition) -
2012–2013
Four Seasons at Hunmin Hakdang, New Jersey
In July I gave the first Food Expressive Arts Therapy class and parent emotion coaching at Hunmin Hakdang in New Jersey, and in March 2013 I opened an integrated psychological coaching leaders' course.
News of the parent coaching lectures was also reported in the New Jersey editions of The Korea Times and the Korea Daily.
July 2012, works from the first class at Hunmin Hakdang, New Jersey 
March 2013, Food Expressive Arts Therapist course at Hunmin Hakdang, New Jersey -
2013–2014
Putting Down Deep Roots
In August 2013 I led a meditation healing group with Professor Park Tae-soo at the Jeju International Meditation Center, and in December the association moved its head office to Cheonan and held its first event there.
In 2014 students at Handong University in Pohang expressed their inner positive resources as sandwiches, and the first Level 1 course in Tongyeong and a workshop inviting supervising experts of the Korean Counseling Association also took place.
August 2013, meditation healing group at the Jeju International Meditation Center 
December 2013, first event after the association's head office moved to Cheonan 
May 2014, special lecture at Handong University, “My Positive Resources as a Sandwich,” expressed by expert Bae Mi-ja 
July 2014, first cohort of the Level 1 Food Expressive Arts Therapy expert course in Tongyeong 
August 2014, workshop inviting supervising experts of the Korean Counseling Association -
2016
New Jersey Again, and Guro-dong
Three years later I returned to the Nanum Foundation in New Jersey to teach parent coaching, and the Haengbok Yeolgi Psychology Institute, opened in 2005, moved to Guro-dong in Seoul in November 2016 for a fresh start.
December 2016, public lecture at the Haengbok Yeolgi Psychology Institute in Guro-dong
The people I met across the sea had the same heart in the end. In front of the dining table, we all opened our hearts.
With love, Healing Santa Kim Ji-yu
This story was first posted in the Haengbok Yeolgi lecture room of the healing space Haengbok Yeolgi cafe.