DSEJ organizes Motivational Talk on’ Hope during Pandemic Times’ under Manodarpan
JAMMU: In order to provide psychosocial support to all the stakeholders of School Education Department during the current Covid-19 pandemic times, Counselling Cell of Directorate of School Education Jammu organised a motivational talk on- ‘Hope-Ek Shamma zindagi ki’ (Hope during pandemic times) under the patronship of Dr. Ravi Shankar Sharma, Director School Education Jammu. Dr. Geetanjali Kumar, renowned Psychologist and Motivational Speaker was the key Resource Person for the event.
This event was organized under Manodarpan, an initiative of Ministry of Education under Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, aimed to provide psycho-social support to students and other stake holders for their mental health and well-being.
The Motivational Talk was telecast live on Facebook and was joined in by the stakeholders of School Education Department through zoom, official website of the Directorate and other socail media platforms too. It sensitized more than 18,000 stakeholders initially and is expected to reach out to many morenin the coming days.
Director School Education Jammu Dr. Ravi Shankar Sharma called the present scenario as the hard time and said that in this depressive environment, our focus should be on Ray of Hope. We should keep ourselves aloof of social media and try to be mentally healthy too by igniting a ray of hope of happy well-being of all.
Dr. Geetanjali Kumar in her discourse on Hope emphasised on imbibing certain virtues amongst us viz. Knowledge, wisdom, courage, noble deeds, truthfulness, etc. She said that we as an individual can make a difference. We should always make good choices to get positive responses and should always focus on positive numbers. Prayers have great powers and these must be taught to our children. What we think, we create it and what we imagine, and we become of that. So, try to make less use of social media and develop positive thoughts to be good citizens of society.
Sh. Romesh Sharma Head Counselling Cell DSEJ highlighted the results of a scientific study in which hope has come as number one predictor of mental health. He said that in this pandemic time, such motivational talks may save people from falling into the trap of mental illnesses by raising their morale and making them psychosocially strong.
Dr. Alka Sharma while conducting the proceedings of the webinar shared a beautiful story of five earthen lamps in which the fifth one is of hope and it keeps the other four too lightened.
Dr. Surinder Kumar, Shanti Saroop Sharma, Preeti Sharma and Manan Mahajan, Team Members Counselling Cell DSEJ helped in the smooth conduct of the programme. Sohail Wani, Member IT section provided technical support in the webinar and Mr. Yasser Rasool, Media Coordinator, DSEJ tool.ul the responsibility of dissemination of news of the event.
