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MATI and Seoul Women's University Service Learning (SL)

September 2023 - Present

MATI signed an agreement with Seoul Women's University Service-Learning (SL) in 2023. Undergraduate students in the Department of Art Psychotherapy at Seoul Women's University had time to understand basic art therapy and experience clinical settings with art therapists.
MATI will continue to work with Seoul Women's University Service Learning (SL) in 2024.

MOU Agreement between MATI and Seoul Women's University Industry-Academic Cooperation Group

April 2024 - Present

The Meta Art Therapy Institute (MATI) signed an MOU with the Seoul Women's University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation in April 2024. The two organizations signed a business agreement to promote mutual development through the exchange of human, intellectual, and physical resources.

2023 Good Neighbors-GS Caltex
'Maumtoktok' 10-year business performance report

'Mind Talk Talk' is an art therapy program for children and adolescents designated by the Community Chest of Korea to improve peer relationships. Since 2013, Good Neighbors has been carrying out the Mind Talk Talk project with GS Caltex to improve peer relationships and sociality for children and adolescents from crisis families who need psychological and emotional help.

In November 2023, there was a 10-year project performance report meeting for 'Mind Talk Talk', a joint project between Good Neighbors and GS Caltex . In her keynote speech, Professor Kim Sunhee of the Department of Art Psychotherapy at Seoul Women's University shared the positive changes brought about to children through the experience of expressive arts therapy through Mind Talk Talk.

[Source: Excerpt from Good Neighbors blog]

- Changes in mental health of children and adolescents through expressive arts therapy (Professor Sunhee k. Kim)

- 2021-22 Mind Talk Program Effectiveness Study Contents and Results (Dr. Kim Sunjoo)

2023 International Symposium on Game Culture

"Game on Culture"

The 2nd Game Culture Forum in 2023 expanded on the previous symposium that scientifically proved the controversies surrounding games, looking at them from various perspectives in various fields such as 'medical care', 'education', 'humanities and social sciences', 'arts', 'sports', and 'broadcasting'. At this forum, Professor Kim Seon-heung of the Department of Art Psychotherapy at Seoul Women's University presented a study titled 'Brain Science Evidence of Art Therapy_Based on Art Therapy for Adolescents Excessively Immersed in Games'.