By Xin Fang.
I’ve been paying close attention to the development of the Covid-19 Epidemic since the beginning of it in January, 2020. The development of this virus was far beyond my imagination. So, I am willing to share my work on psychological assistance during these period to everyone and hope it might help a little bit for your country.
First, let me introduce some background information. Jan.25 was Spring Festival 2020. Like Christmas in western, it is the biggest and longest holiday in China. Since Chinese tradition is going back to hometown before Spring Festival, national great migration began after Jan.10. The traffic reached the peak one week before the Spring Festival. Wuhan has been blockaded from Jan.23. Wu Han is not only a Mega City with over 20 million people and also the biggest integrated transportation center in the central of China. Right now, people all over the world has realized that how contagious this virus is. According to my previous experience of psychological intervention for major crisis and crisis management like SARS (2003), Zhouqu debris flow (2010), etc., Just at that moment, I predicted there would be wide spread psychological panic and the work of psychological assistance would be a must.
So, I initiated a brief article named Several Suggestions Regarding to Covid-19 Crisis Management on Jan.25 which was the first day of lunar year (1st day of Spring Festival) and sent it to some professionals’ WeChat groups. WeChat is like the Instagram in China. This article was very popular and from that time on, I started to devote myself to the psychological assistance related works. On Jan. 26, there were huge amounts of articles talking about psychological interventions in WeChat Moments. I realized that during that emergency, people’s amygdala was activated and cerebral cortex was largely suppressed. People were unlikely to read articles with lots of words.
Hence, I wrote and recorded an article named Arouse Your Inner Vitality. It is a clinical hypnosis audio (27 minutes). I group sent it to WeChat Moments and several psychological professionals’ WeChat groups, and got 88,000 hits within 12 hours. It has been reprinted by more than 42 well-known psychological institutes including lots of top universities (Peking University and Tsinghua University which is equivalent to Harvard and MIT in U.S., University of Macau, etc.), Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Zhejiang Mental Health Association. The pageview is over 300,000. Audience’ comment is very positive. They feel more peaceful, warming, powerful and hopeful.
I am willing to share my audios and texts on ISH platform and English version of my audios will be recorded recently.
Since Jan. 29, in order to tell first batch of volunteers who participating in psychological crisis assistance the management philosophy and experience I have learned from my previous crisis intervention, I participated large amounts of Non-profit lectures in various channels at the first time. I was invited by 4 psychological institutes in Wuhan (Wuhan Mental Health Centre, Wuhan Psychological Hotline for Colleges and Universities, Ministry of Education, etc.) and have done several trainings online including Introduction of SAFER-R Model and Psychological Adjustment for Front-line Doctors and Nurses. I have also done trainings The Application of SAFER-R Model for Online Psychological Assistance for psychological hotline staff in 4 of top universities in China (Peking University, Tsinghua University, Beijing Normal University, Tianjin University). In Feb.8, My 60 minutes’ lecture about crisis intervention got over 4,000,000 hits in Peking University’s Tik Tok live broadcasting room. On the other hand, I have also done trainings and supervisions for psychological professionals around China on several online platforms. Those activities were organized by well-known institutes such as Chinese Association for Mental Health, Chinese Psychological Society, Beijing Municipal Health Commission.
On Feb.9, I have received the invitation from China-Japan Friendship Hospital (one of the best hospitals in China) and recorded an audio for patients in Wuhan mobile cabin hospitals. Our target is psychological adjustment for patients, improving the cooperation between doctors and patients and being more confident about future. Hence, I recorded a clinical hypnosis audio named Beautiful Land, Fighting Against Virus. Metaphor ‘once upon a time, there was a beautiful country…’ has been used in this audio. I heard from audience and doctors that the audio is very effective. The related e-book has been published in People’s Medical Publishing House. The pageview of this audio in our WeChat Official Account is 910,000. The WeChat Official Account of Chinese Erickson Institute also published different audios aiming at different target groups (pregnant woman, people who suffer from insomnia, front-line doctors and nurses, children). Those audios were recorded by 4 talented professionals and got hits between 10,000 to 40,000. Clinical hypnosis has been accepted by more and more psychological professionals. I will share all of those audios and texts to professionals all over the world on ISH platform.
There are also many anti-Covid-19 activities related to government. I have received the invitation from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and have done trainings online live for Permanent Mission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations, Embassy of The People’s Republic of China in The United States of America, Consulate General of The People’s Republic of China in New York, etc. The topic of training is Stress Management in Crisis Events. This training will be forwarded to Embassy of The People’s Republic of China worldwide later. I also attended a collaborative project organized by The CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection （CCDI）, Peking U and Himalaya(the biggest audio platform in China) and conducted a lecture regarding to The Psychological Adjustment When Back to Work using light hypnosis. The audio Psychological Adjustment for Doctors and Nurses was included in Learning Power (this is a must learning material for Chinese members of the Communist Party). I was also invited by the online live platform of Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau and have given a lecture about Communication in Crisis. Now, I am the candidate of national crisis management expert panel and it is waiting to be approved.
On the other hand, I have been interviewed by several mainstream media including CNR (China National Radio), CCTV, Phoenix Satellite Television and China Educational Television (ETV). I introduced Clinical Hypnosis Introduction and Its Application in Fighting Covid-19 in Yunnan Satellite Television. Internal reference of Xinhua News Agency interviewed me twice on Jan.28 and Mar. 24 respectively and I have made several detailed suggestions to top government officials directly about crisis management and national public memorial ceremony in Qingming Festival (is similar to Mexico’s day of dead).
Moreover, I actively helped related people to collect protective equipment. First, I sent that equipment into Wuhan from abroad. I tried my best to avoid delay and missing and successfully sent the equipment to people in Wuhan Mental Health Center. Secondly, I asked dozens of our foreign teachers in 7 countries whether they need any facial mask. The masks of 3 teachers has been sent already. I also donated to GCAP and help them send related protective equipment to German.
In our team, information regarding to clinical hypnosis, Ego State Therapy and Body Therapy was published by WeChat Official Account of Chinese Erickson Institute. Other than that, information related to crisis, DBT, Couple Therapy and behavior therapy was published by Beijing Zhi-DaoZhong-He Medical Institute. From Feb.15 to the middle of May, Zhi-DaoZhong-He has held and will be continuing to hold activities including Nonprofit Lectures for over 10000 people and Please Listen to The Story of Experts-How to Get Along with Crisis. 12 top experts including me have been invited and comments are very positive. The pageview is around 10000-50000. The attendance are nearly all professionals. Because of the blockade of people’s life in recent 2 months, the divorce rate is increasing sharply. So, Zhi-Dao-Zhong-He decided to invite Dr. David Scharff (MD Chair, IPA Committee on Couple and Family Psychoanalysis) and his wife and held a non-profit lecture about The Fantasy and Reality of Intimate Relationship. The pageview is nearly 20000. We will promote a book club about intimate relationship and it will invite top professionals in this area reading related book. This activity has been bought by over 500 people already. On April 7, another non-profit lecture about psychological trauma therapy will be held. A book club Body Never Forget that charges will be promoted then.
Not only myself, but also Beijing Zhi-Dao-Zhong-He Medical Institute and Chinese Erickson Institute have contributed a lot in non-profit work of psychological assistance during these special periods of time. Our brand has been well recognized as a professional, effective and rich social connection brand within the whole industry. We are proud of it. What I want to thank most is the president of ISH, Bernhard Trenkle and professionals all over the world. Thanks a lot for your support to Zhi-Dao-Zhong-He. Today’s achievement of Beijing Zhi-Dao-Zhong-He Medical Institute and myself is highly related to your help and support.
Right now, the severity of the Covid-19 Epidemic is different in each country. We are willing to try our best to help if any of you need support.
Name: Xin Fang
Degree: MSc.
Language: Mandarin, English
Location: Beijing, China
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