When the Universidad del Rosario created the UR Emotion education center in 2019, it was one of the first institutions in Colombia to focus on emotional education programming. In 2023, the center won a bronze Circle of Excellence Award for Student Engagement.

The university decided to help students face and manage emotional changes not only from a clinical standpoint, but also holistically. The center pioneered a model of education based on existing research that helps students focus on different aspects of their emotional health.

“[The skills the center teaches] are necessary for young people to be able to confront the changes that they will face in life,” says Ana María Restrepo Fallon, Dean of the Student Wellbeing School.