“Express with food and play, and joy shoots up”
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2017
An Agreement and a Dream Toward the World
On July 17, the Korean Youth Counseling Association and the Korea Food Expressive Arts Therapy Association (K-FEAT) signed an MOU. That same month we donated Food Expressive Arts Therapy books to the East Asia Library of the University of Washington in Seattle and dreamed of a new leap toward the global village.
July 2017, MOU signing between the Korean Youth Counseling Association and K-FEAT 
Visiting the University of Washington in Seattle and donating Food Expressive Arts Therapy books -
2018
A First Presentation in English
In January, at the ICSMB convergence conference in Manila, the Philippines, I gave my first presentation in English abroad. Standing in front of everyone I forgot every word I knew, but it was “a small first step toward the world.”
In February came an invited lecture for the Korean Women's Association in Singapore, and in summer a healing group at the Gongju Hanok Village.
January 2018, ICSMB convergence conference in Manila, the Philippines 
Invited course “Food Expression Happiness Coaching” for the Korean Women's Association in Singapore 
August 2018, Food Expressive Arts Therapy healing group at the Gongju Hanok Village -
2019
Debuting Again
A year and a half after a traffic accident, in October I made an “again debut” with a workshop on integrative expressive arts therapy with a neuroscientific approach at the 37th Conference of the Korean Art Therapy Association. I was grateful that my health had slowly recovered so I could stand again, and truly thankful for the help of two experts, Bae Mi-ja from Gyeongju and Han Eun-hye from Cheonan.
My doctoral dissertation was introduced in 40 countries through LAMBERT Publishing, and with the Yeongdong County Public Health Center's dementia care center I started the PuNolChi dementia-prevention project. The Level 1 specialist instructor workshop in Jeju and an author's lecture at Kyobo Book Centre Gwanghwamun are also unforgettable.
October 2019, workshop at the 37th Conference of the Korean Art Therapy Association with FEAT experts Bae Mi-ja and Han Eun-hye 
Doctoral dissertation introduced in 40 countries through LAMBERT Publishing 
The PuNolChi project with the dementia care center of the Yeongdong County Public Health Center 
FEAT Level 1 specialist instructor workshop in beautiful Jeju 
Author's lecture on Food Expressive Arts Therapy at Kyobo Book Centre Gwanghwamun -
2020
A Positivity Vaccine Amid COVID-19
In the spring when everything stopped, I set a “healing vaccine” on the dining table. In May I published the book Let's Play, Study! (공부야 놀자) on food-expression study-play coaching, and in November, as the association passed its 10th anniversary, I met experts from across the country in Zoom workshops.
A positivity-vaccine table to overcome COVID-19 
Let's Play, Study! (공부야 놀자) — food-expression study-play coaching book, Korean Studies Information Publishing; food-expression study method published 
Passing the 10th anniversary of K-FEAT -
2021
A Promise Every Monday Evening
The free Monday-evening Zoom lectures continued as a donation of talent and reached their 68th session in November. In October the association experts' healing essay collection 10 People, 10 Colors of Mind Cooking (10인 10색 마음요리) was also published.
Free Zoom lecture no. 54 to prevent COVID blues: “PuNolChi Mind Journey, Tending the Garden of the Soul” 
Healing essays 10 People, 10 Colors of Mind Cooking (10인 10색 마음요리) published
When I got back up from where I had fallen, the lecture room had grown to reach beyond the screen.
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.