Let there be light in the classroom: a trainer’s late-night inquiry

After standing on the podium for a long time, I have seen countless faces struggling in the business world and tense under high pressure.

Whenever you open the door of a corporate training classroom, you are often greeted by the cold blue light of the projector, accompanied by the anxiety of the students in the audience who are typing on the keyboard quickly and blindly swiping their mobile phones. In this era driven by AI and efficiency, everyone is pursuing “usefulness”, but unknowingly, they have turned themselves into high-intensity machines.

I can’t help but ask myself often late at night: In addition to providing strategies, tools and solutions, what else can I leave for them in this small classroom?

Until I met Teacher Song Yihui’s “Light Classroom (opens in a new tab)”.

I was shocked to realize that what we need most is not blind expansion to cram in more knowledge, but internal sorting out by pressing the pause button. The real “light” does not come from the dazzling fluorescent lamps above our heads, but when we are willing to slow down and illuminate the forgotten corners of our hearts through the warmth of words.

Walking into a classroom with light is a long-awaited reunion with one’s own soul

When we try to put down the financial reports and KPIs and re-read Su Shi’s “Ding Feng Bo”, the sentence “Looking back to the desolate place, there will be no wind or rain or sunshine” is no longer just a recitation in middle school textbooks, but the most gentle emotional anchor after experiencing the storm in the workplace. When we follow the words of Zhang Ailing and Zhu Ziqing and peel off the cocoons step by step in the atomic reading of “reading, circling, discerning, thinking, and writing”, the defenses accumulated in business wars and the fragility tolerated in interpersonal relationships finally find an outlet for social emotions (SEL).

Words are like guidance, and reading is like looking into a mirror. In the glimmer of classics, we see our own anxieties, accept our imperfections, and learn to make responsible decisions at critical moments.

As training workers, we are not only transmitters of knowledge, but also creators of space.

I would like to recommend this book “Light Classroom (opens in a new tab)” to everyone who is struggling in the workplace, and to every partner who is eager to inject soul into the classroom. Let us open this book together, learn how to dust ourselves off, and in the torrent of change, light a heart-warming lamp that will never go out for ourselves and the people around us.

Let the classroom have light and let the heart have direction from now on.