생명, 자원 그리고 치유의 맥(脈), 푸드아트테라피

Life, Resources, and Healing veins, Food Art Therapy

This study is a partially revised and supplemented version of what was presented as part of the keynote lecture of “Food Art Therapy(FAT) for Life, Resources, and Healing”, which is the theme of the annual conference of the Korean Food Art Therapy Society in 2021. In this study, life encompasses not only human life as a microcosm but also macrocosm, that is, all environmental factors necessary for living. Therefore, all components of the universe are applicable, and at same time, they are also resources. Healing is necessary in terms of recovery when a living organism loses its balance due to prolonged excessive unnaturalness. Now, the earth, one of the components of the universe, is too polluted, so it cannot maintain its naturalness, and it is in trouble such as global warming. There are many people who suffer from loss of mental and physical balance as well. Therefore, FAT has firmly opened the way of healing, and furthermore, it has suggested a plan to enhance its status as a national therapy and to benefit the mother country and neighboring countries of multi-cultural families. In particular, I sought the application and development direction of FAT according to the five components of “Integrated Counseling and Healing Model of Multidisciplinary Perspectives”, which solved the study, education, and research journey that has been in the field of counseling, healing, meditation, and spirituality for nearly 35 years with the wisdom of enneagrams. I hope that this perspective of convergence will work reciprocally in both models and lead to synergy, and become a beneficial means and method for more people.