Breaking Kota’s ‘factory settings’: Yoga, Zumba classes, mental wellness back in focus | Education News,The Indian Express
The coaching hub of Kota is back in focus with yoga sessions and zumba classes to 24X7 helpline, and mental wellness workshops are set to a dedicated team of counsellors on campus.
Prominent coaching institute Allen, which currently has over 1.5 lakh students in its various medical (NEET) and engineering (JEE) entrance preparatory courses, runs special programmes such as “Tum Hoge Kamyab” (you will succeed) and “Wings of Wisdom”, besides regular yoga sessions and zumba classes, for the mental wellbeing of its students.
“We have a dedicated helpline which works round the clock and over 50 concerned calls from students or parents are addressed daily through it,” said Dr Harish Sharma, Principal Counsellor and Student-Behaviour Expert at Allen.
“For every 10 students we have a supervising student who is called ‘buddy’. The job of the buddy is to keep a check on the mental health of the group and inform the teachers if there are any symptoms or signs like someone is not eating properly for a few days, not coming out of room or attending classes or is not talking to his or her parents,” he told PTI.
He said professional counsellors available at the institute are roped in once the teachers have an idea about any student.
“However, in certain cases where we realise that mere counselling will not help and the child needs proper psychiatric treatment, we inform parents to take the child with them for sometime and work on their mental health,” he added.
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