Jalandhar-based college hosts “Psych Fiesta 2025”

The Department of Psychology of Apeejay College of Fine Arts (ACFA), Jalandhar recently organised a 2-day “Psych Fiesta 2025” event on the theme ‘Understanding Minds Transforming Lives’.

Citing the importance of Psyche Feista, Dr. Neerja Dhingra, Principal of ACFA, emphasised, “Mental health certainly needs to be prioritised and one must understand the ways to take care of it. In order to create general awareness about it especially amongst the youth, we here at Apeejay tend to organise such events. This makes them capable of generating awareness around them with other people as well.”

Ms. Monica Sekhon  (Former HoD, Psychology) was present as the Chief Guest. While addressing the students, Ms. Monica Sekhon said, “The Department of Psychology has always been a pioneer in the all round development of students and is constantly engaged in providing practical knowledge to students along with classroom teaching.”

On the first day of Psych Fiesta, the students presented a street play ‘Uljhan se Suljhan’. Also, competitions like poster making, caption writing, meme making and quiz were organised. In the poster making competition, Kanchan and Yashika Kakkar bagged the first place whereas Vanshika Arora and Zainab Hussain clinched the second place and Grace Arora and Sehajdeep Singh won third place and Diya Talwar got consolation prize.

In meme making competition, Shaurya Samrol, Sahaniya Sharma and Harshita bagged the top three positions respectively.

In caption writing competition, Piyush Dang won the coveted first position whereas Shobhana Agarwal bagged the second position and Shruti Sharma and Vishal Bharti won third prize.

Sandeep, Piyush and Disha together grabbed the first place in the quiz competition. While Anureet, Maria and Sehajdeep bagged the second place, Ishveen, Suhani and Akshay won the  third place.

DAY 2 

On the second day of “Psych Fiesta 2025”, students learnt the importance of counselling and meditation in life to live a balanced and fulfilling life.

On the second day of “Psych Fiesta 2025”, students learnt the importance of counselling and meditation in life to live a balanced and fulfilling life.

The second day two witnessed the presence of Ms. Pranavcheet Kaur, Counselling Psychologist, who addressed the students one-on-one and interacted with them while sharing some coping up therapies with them.

Dr. Neerja Dhingra further highlighted that in these contemporary times, competition and a packed schedule has made everyone its victim. “In this scenario, taking  a brief pause, finding time for one’s self is utmost necessary in order to calm down one’s nervous system and there is nothing better than meditation to attain this.”

Dr. Dhingra further asserted that it is commendable that people in our society think from this perspective and are making mental health as well their priority and learning to set the healthy boundaries that are must for their own well being.

Other than testing related to mental health counselling sessions and meditation; Mandala art, identifying personality from handwriting style, face painting, games and food stalls were also arranged for the students.

It is worth mentioning that not just students pursuing psychology as their major subject were part of this event, but others made the most of it as well.

Dr. Dhingra admired the efforts of Ms. Niharika and Ms. Harpreet Kaur of the Department of Psychology for successfully organising this event and encouraged them to keep up the good work.