Healing Santa Story

A record of the people and hearts met at the dining table, and of each day's small realizations. From a 20-year journey of lectures to today's essays on self-esteem and spiritual diary, explore by topic the stories of Healing Santa, who has walked together with PuNolChi.

20 Years of Haengbok Yeolgi Lectures · 2006–2026

20 Years of Haengbok Yeolgi Lectures

Dear Haengbok Yeolgi family, I have gathered 20 years of lecture records kept on our cafe and arranged them, five years at a time, into four stories.

From the Haengbok Yeolgi Psychology Institute that opened in Yongin in September 2005, through art psychotherapy and Food Expressive Arts Therapy, to today's “psychology on the dining table, PuNolChi.” Meet the stories in order, starting with the most recent.

“20 years of learning, loving and sharing”

August 2025, PuNolChi Mind Journey workshop at the International Expressive Arts Therapy Conference in Suzhou, China

① 2022~2026 PuNolChi Leaves a Dot on the World The university elective “Healing Food and Health,” Yegaram Academy in Yesan, London, Shenzhen, Suzhou and Jakarta, the PuNolChi Academy top leaders' course, and on to Germany and the Netherlands. Read the story →

October 2019, workshop at the 37th Conference of the Korean Art Therapy Association with FEAT experts Bae Mi-ja and Han Eun-hye

② 2017~2021 Rising Again and Connecting Online An MOU with the Korean Youth Counseling Association, a first English presentation in Manila, an “again debut” at the Korean Art Therapy Association after a traffic accident, the PuNolChi dementia-prevention project, and free Monday Zoom lectures during COVID-19. Read the story →

Article on Food Expressive Arts Therapy in The Korea Times (US edition)

③ 2012~2016 Food Expressive Arts Therapy Crosses the Sea Training for nutrition teachers, the first lectures in New York and New Jersey and US Korean-language press coverage, the leaders' course at Hunmin Hakdang in New Jersey, the association's head office moving to Cheonan, a lecture at Handong University, and the Haengbok Yeolgi Psychology Institute in Guro-dong. Read the story →

December 2006, the first Haengbok Yeolgi instructor course in Food Expressive Arts Therapy

④ 2006~2011 A Time of Sowing the Seeds of Happiness Art psychotherapy at Sun Moon University's continuing education center, the first Haengbok Yeolgi food expression instructor course, nearly 100 free public lectures, and the founding of the Korea Food Expressive Arts Therapy Association in 2009. Read the story →

Teachers of the food expression specialist courses, who learned and grew together

⑤ Certification courses 2006–2026 Looking Back on the Food Expression Specialist Courses Level 1 Food Expression Counselor, Professional Food Expression Counselor and PuNolChi coaching: twenty years of Haengbok Yeolgi certification courses along three paths, and the road ahead. Read the story →

Seniors of Yeongdong and the PuNolChi teachers who spent 20 weeks together

⑥ Senior brain coaching 2019–2026 Let’s Play, Food! It Helps Prevent Dementia! Looking back on the 20-week PuNolChi project with the Dementia Relief Center of the Yeongdong County Public Health Center in 2019, and sketching the future of PuNolChi senior brain coaching. Read the story →

Let’s work together for a healthy and beautiful world~

⑦ PERMA and the workplace 2011–2026 A Workplace Where People Flourish: The PuNolChi Mind Table A program for workplaces where people flourish, weaving the 3E of human-centered entrepreneurship and the PERMA of positive psychology into the five-minute-a-day PuNolChi Mind Table. Read the story →

Every one of you I met in the lecture room built the Haengbok Yeolgi of today, and I am grateful that these bonds have continued for nearly 20 years. Thank you, with all my heart.

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.

Healing Santa on Self-Esteem