Friday (12/11) Faculty of Psychology UGM held the Opening of the Anniversary of the Faculty of Psychology UGM. This event is the beginning of a series of activities celebrating the 57th anniversary of the founding of the Faculty of Psychology UGM. With the theme “Reconnecting and Co-Creating”, the opening event was held at the Faculty of Psychology UGM with an offline and online mix format.
The event starts at 07.30 WIB and ends at 11.30 WIB. The event was opened with remarks from the Dean of the Faculty of Psychology UGM Rahmat Hidayat, S.Psi., M.Sc., Ph.D. as well as the beating of the gong as a sign that the 2021 UGM Faculty of Psychology Anniversary event began.
The first session of the Anniversary event was filled with Yoga activities led by Isnaniar Noorvitri, a Yoga instructor from Amazing 8 Yoga Shala Yogyakarta. The event was attended by students, staff, lecturers, and retired lecturers of the Faculty of Psychology UGM. To comply with health protocols, yoga sessions are held online and offline.
In the second session, the committee prepared several competitions adapted from the Netflix series, namely Squid Game. The event is packaged in such a way from the rules to the equipment so that the atmosphere that is built is similar to the film that attracted the attention of many publics.
The ‘Squid Game’ competition is divided into three sessions. The first session was a red light green light game, where participants walked fast and stopped on cue. Any participant who violates the rules will be shot by a water gun from the game guard. The second session was tug of war and followed by the third session, namely the game of cutting Dalgona candy.
Regarding the theme of the event “Reconnecting and Co-Creating” in this event contains the spirit to rise from the pandemic atmosphere that has been running for almost two years. The chairman of the committee for the Anniversary of the Faculty of Psychology UGM Pradytia Putri Pertiwi, S.Psi., Ph.D. explained that Reconnecting in this event is expected to be able to connect elements in the faculty that were scattered during the pandemic. Furthermore, the meaning of Co-creating in this event is an effort to prepare adaptations that can be made to return to carrying out activities in the new normal.
“The hope is that it can connect the relationship, relations, and connectivity of parties, be they individuals, organizations, or with the community. Meanwhile, our co-creating does have a focus on making a kind of synthesis of learning from the pandemic, what adaptations have we made and we hope that they will become recommendations for dealing with the new normal or the new normal from a psychological aspect, “explained Pradytia.
Preparing a series of Dies Natalis activities in the new normal is a challenge for the event committee. They must arrange the event well but still adhere to strict health protocols.
“Yes, maybe we have never had a reference, what kind of mixed Dies Natalis is that. However, we did get some directions from the staff for what the mix (event format) should look like, taking into account the progress of course. So later, we will mix the program, some offline, some online, some mixed, like that,” said Pradytia.
The series of Dies Natalis events itself will last until early January 2022. The events that the academic community of the Faculty of Psychology UGM can take part in are the Tik-Tok/Instagram Reels competition, Therapeutic Art-making, shared bicycles & anjangsana to retired lecturers, showcase of works & the contribution of the UGM Psychology academic community to the Covid-19 pandemic, meta-synthesis studies & launching of working papers, creative writing workshops and book production by the Faculty of Psychology UGM education staff, and the highlight of the event is tasyakuran which is planned to be held on January 10, 2022.