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Theme: Refreshing Freshness 心鮮式

This event occurred on
November 20, 2021
Tainan, Tainan
Taiwan

We start from daily life and let the audience listen to the things we have heard but do not understand. These things may be new for our audience in Tainan City. We have three sub-topics, mental health, food education and smart agriculture, and a new model of education. These issues might not be new for the world, but to the city we based, Tainan, there are few people of forum here to talk about these things, so we set up these topics.

1. Mental health

In Tainan, people avoid to talk about their mental illness before because they thought it was sick and irresponsible, but there are more people willing to talk and help now. It is a worth-gratifying thing and need to continually promote. We want to let our audience understand that everyone has their own mental illness, it's not sick or weird. We should get along with it, and help ourselves. Another sharing about mental health is about how forests affect people's health and the importance of doing outdoor activities.

2. Food education and smart agriculture

We rarely think about the source of our food and the vast work behind it. Do you know why Taiwanese can easily buy mushrooms in all seasons? Being in this island country, it is necessary to know Taiwan's unique fish, and the concept of aquaculture fishery is gradually being understood in Taiwan. Speaking of ornamental flowers, Taiwan’s orchids are very representative in the world. We will share about the power of its beauty and the problems they face in extreme climates.

3. New model of education

Because of the impact of Covid-19, every teacher must use conference software to attend classes. This is not normal for teachers in Tainan, and few schools promote this kind of teaching. In this case, most teachers are very nervous about learning a new way of teaching. In this generation, technology must be used to help everything. In Taiwan, most of the students' ability of using technology has exceeded teachers. In the future, there are more opportunities for teaching online. Everyone should be willing to learn how to use those applications, and have the core competencies of technology.

Refreshing Freshness (心鮮式)
No. 6, Ln. 110, Sec.4, Ximen Rd., North Dist.
First floor
Tainan, Tainan, 704
Taiwan
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Chia-Pin Yu

Associate Professor of Forestry and Resources Conservation at NTU( National Taiwan University)
Research Expertise: Nature, Travel and Health, Forest Healing, Virtual reality and health care, health research methods, middle-aged and senior-aged psychology research. When he was in college, he experienced his mother's death from falling off a cliff, suffering from bipolar disorder and depression at the time. After engaging in surfing and forest recreation activities, he realized the impact of outdoor activities on people's body and mind, and began to study forest recreation and health. In the future teaching, he also paid special attention to the safety of outdoor activities. For forest healing, his interpretation is, "When people walk into nature, watch trees, listen to the calls of insects and birds, smell the fresh scents, and feel comfortable and happy, they are doing "forest healing" in a broad sense. Engaging in focused activities in the forest, such as Nordic walking, yoga, and five senses experience, can help people relax their body and mind and avoid tension and sadness.

Chieh-Wen Lee

Children's Clinical Psychologist.
Lee, Chieh-Wen has worked in the field of children's clinical psychology for more than 10 years, serving more than 4,000 children with clinical treatment experience and more than 1,000 parent-child pairs. Under the professional training of medicine and psychology, the teacher can accurately understand the children's condition, provide customized training plans, and use simple and easy-to-understand language to make the children gradually change in a happy atmosphere. Authoritative areas: parent-child education, mental illness, concentration training, emotional distress, interpersonal skills, children's brainwave feedback attention training, learning potential assessment and training, psychological trauma adjustment and recovery, etc.

Chun-Pi Tseng

Secretary-general of Taiwan Orchid Growers Association
From 2011 to 2021, he took Taiwan orchids to hold countless exhibitions, from the Geneva Orchid Show, Paraguay Orchid Show to the United States Double Oak Orchid Show. The Taiwan International Orchid Show in the past ten years was also planned by him; the exhibition activities he participated in There are countless, from Europe, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East to Japan, he attended almost all conferences and events related to orchids in the world.

Hsin-Ting Lin

Teacher and Section Chief of Information Technology of Tainan Municipal He Shun Junior High School
He was originally a physics and chemistry teacher, but now he is the school’s information team leader and teacher of information. During the period when the COVID-19 affected teaching methods, he had to answer several phone calls every day to deal with teachers' questions about online teaching. In the age when science and technology education was not prevalent, he tried to let students record the experiment process on the tablet computer in their own tone to prevent students from copying the answers, so as to enhance students' independent thinking and spontaneous learning. After becoming an information teacher, in addition to assisting various information exhibitions and achievement exhibitions in Tainan City, he also assisted other schools in promoting air pollution prevention courses in order to take care of the health of community residents.

Wen-Hsien Huang

Executive Assistant of "WANSHEN" Science and Technology CO, LTD.
After finishing mandatory military service, he went home to engage in mushroom industry. He launched the department of production, processed mushroom research, marketing and also branding for about 2000 days. As the third generation of the mushroom industry of his family, he has experienced the mushroom agriculture and industry from the traditional age to the technological age. He is also committed to promoting smart agriculture to other Taiwanese farmers, hoping to provide consumers with safer and more stable products, and at the same time improve farmers' life from problems caused by traditional agriculture.

Yu-Ying Chen

The founder of ''Three Fish Chokuhan( direact sales store in Japanese)'' in Taiwan
"Return to my hometown is not only for fish farming, but also thinking about what we can do for the community!" Chen Yu-Ying used the knowledge related to aquaculture he learned at Pingtung Agricultural University and formed a production and sales team with his partners. He kept thinking about the plight of farmers who are unable to control the sales channels. In other sales channels or methods, he used the inspiration of the Japanese agricultural direct sales store(Chokuhan) to sell the local products of 23 individual farmers, 4 aquaculturist and 8 communities, and gave back the surplus to the community every month and hired local youths as shop assistants. He hopes more people to know the local fish species, learn how to eat fish, and promote the ‘’Three Fish Culture’’. Through the activities of eating fish, happy with fish farming, and downshifting in fishing villages, more people will directly enter the fishing village. He also committed to driving younth for hometown returning.

Organizing team

KUAN-FU
LEE

Tainan, Taiwan
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