Premarital Counselling under the guidance of Kerala State Women's Commission

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The Women's Commission of Kerala organised a premarital counselling session in collaboration with GCTE,  the first of its kind here. Our college was formally chosen by the government to launch this programme. The presidential address was delivered by the principal, Dr. V K Santhosh Kumar. The convenor of the women's cell of  GCTE and Assistant Professor, Ms.Sheena Elizabeth,  gave the opening remarks. She opined that in Kerala, it is mostly the women who flood the higher education classes but the rate of their employment is still low, thanks to many factors including unhealthy marital knots. Advocate P. Sathidevi, chairperson of the Kerala State Women's Commission, then officially launched the programme. She gave an inspiring and eye-opening oration on the status quo in Kerala with regard to truce and breach within different power relationships like husband-wife relation, teacher-student relation and the like. Then Adv. Indira Raveendran also gave the inaugural speech in which she discussed her real-life experiences with couples who are in a strained relationship. She mentioned about some cases filed in Vanchiyoor court. She also talked about the problems faced by parents in old age and the trivial issues in husband and wife relationship. She concluded the words by saying that mutual frankness helps to avoid problems in personal relationships, citing examples of family relations that have broken down due to lack of such frankness. Following the official inauguration, Dr. Jayakrishna, Assistant Professor, Department of  Hindi Education,  rendered the felicitation. Advocate P. Sathidevi, upon our request, distributed the trophies and certificates to the winners of drawing competition held in association with No to Drugs Campaign of the State Govt to students from  Govt Model BHSS, Thycaud. 

 Then, Ms. Ashwathi F.S., the assistant centre manager and counsellor at the Carrier Development Centre, Neyyattinkara, dealt with the topic of "Healthy Relationships." She explained to us how to build positive relationships through exercises in empathy, assertive communication, and other skills. Students were urged to discuss toxic relationships and their personal experiences regarding the same.

She talked at length about three kinds of relationships as follows: 
Healthy relationships that  involve honesty, trust, respect and open communication between partners , taking effort and compromise from both people with no imbalance of power and with  partners respecting each other's independence,  making their own decisions without fear of retribution or retaliation, and share decisions;
Unhealthy Relationships entailing lying, cheating, jealousy,  disrespect and attempts  control  partners like keeping track of where they are and who they hang out with; and
Toxic Relationship,  one that makes people feel unsupported, misunderstood, demeaned, or attacked and where one's well-being is threatened in some way—emotionally, psychologically, and even physically. Ms. Aswathi went on to give some
tips for maintaining  Healthy Relationships like upholding:
1. Acceptance not avoidance.
2.Adaptation not adjustment.
3.Empathy not sympathy
4.Assertiveness not aggressiveness.

The session concluded with Vote of Thanks rendered by Ms. Bhagya Murali.

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