👐 Change Through Standing Up ‘With My Own Strength’', Marte Meo 📽️💕 |
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Anja Harder, Senior Marte Meo Supervisor, conducting video analysis ⓒBTF |
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🌱 Discovering Strengths Through Video 💕 |
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Marte Meo means “with my own strength” in Latin. It reflects a moment in which a person learns to trust and recognize their own inner strength. |
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Marte Meo is a video-based interaction analysis method developed in the 1980s by Maria Aarts in the Netherlands. Today, the model is used in over 55 countries worldwide in fields such as counseling, education, treatment, caregiving, and social services.
When we talk with children, we often focus on “what went wrong.”
Marte Meo takes the opposite approach—helping people identify “what works” and build on those strengths. Rather than pointing out problems, Marte Meo helps people recognize the strengths and potential already present within relationships.
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🧩 Five Reasons Why Marte Meo is Unique
🎥 Video-based:
Observes objectively recorded scenes together
🌱 Strength-focused:
Highlights successful interactions, focuses on potential rather than deficiencies
🧩 Development-oriented:
Provides support tailored to the developmental stages of children and adolescents
👂Communication-centered:
Emphasizes nonverbal signals such as eye contact, waiting,
and responsive interactions rather than words.
🤝Self-discovery:
Encourages people to realize and practice transformation rather than direct advice
We often try to correct problematic behaviors. However, Marte Meo helps uncover warm and meaningful nonverbal signals hidden in short video clips recorded in homes, schools, or counseling settings. Simply seeing one’s own strengths visually can spark remarkable change!🌟 |
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🤝 BTF Introducing Marte Meo to Korea for the First Time🌏 |
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Workshop introducing the German Marte Meo for the first time in Korea ⓒBTF |
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In 2018, BTF invited experts from the German nonprofit professional training organization, fachpool gGmbH (Germany, led by Volker Rhein), and opened the first Marte Meo workshop in Korea, introducing the approach domestically.
From early childhood and adolescent counseling to parenting coaching for caregivers and capacity-building for professionals in education and counseling settings, a variety of programs have been introduced, receiving strong interest from participants. The 2018 worship and the 2021 practitioner course were both successfully completed. The method has also been consistently applied in school violence intervention settings in parent counseling.
Especially in school violence counseling settings, video-based analysis is used to support:
✔️ Recovery and confidence building for victims
✔️ Self-regulation and positive behavior development for perpetrators
✔️Improved parent–child communication
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🌟 "When we pause, we begin to see" – Transformative Stories Through Video |
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Marte Meo training session (AI adjustment applied to protect participant identity) ⓒBTF |
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“I didn’t realize my mother was looking at me so warmly. It made me feel really good.”
- Child participant of the Marte Meo program |
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“I realized that parenting and love are not about something grand. They begin with listening to a child and responding clearly to them.”
- Parent participant of the Marte Meo program |
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“I thought I was simply playing with my child, but when I watched the video, I saw that my gaze was giving my child great strength.”
- Parent participant of the Marte Meo program
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“By paying attention to nonverbal expressions and tone of voice, we were able to approach the process of verifying facts more deeply.”
- School violence investigator participant of the Marte Meo program
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Marte Meo videos are not tools to insert new knowledge, but tools that make the positive resources already present in relationships ‘visible.’ Even a single short moment can become a new lens for observing and understanding relationships. 🎞️
Discover through real stories how video-based interaction analysis leads to relationship recovery and change, and how parents, teachers, and counselors uncover children’s hidden strengths.
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📬 2026, We Invite You to Grow Together with Marte Meo! |
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On March 18, a Marte Meo workshop will be held at Seoul National University of Education. It will be a day to rethink relationships, reflect together, and learn through shared understanding.
This workshop is a Korea–Germany collaborative program organized by the collaboration of The Blue Tree Foundation and fachpool gGmbH, and will include an official congratulatory message from Maria Aarts, founder of Marte Meo International.
Participants will have the opportunity to learn from leading experts from the International Marte Meo Competence Center Ruhr (operated by fachpool gGmbH, Herne, Germany). Experience the essence of Marte Meo and develop a “positive lens” to see the strengths of our children. 🤗💖
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2026 Korea-Germany International Marte Meo Worship “The Power of Small Moments” ⓒBTF |
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🌍 The Only Asian NGO Host a Side Event for 6 Consecutive Years, Youth Voices Echoed at UN Headquarters
Since 2020, BTF has selected UN youth delegates each year to amplify youth voices on the international stage.
This year, seven delegates officially
proposed the need for inclusive AI governance design at the UN Headquarters in New York.
As the only Asian NGO to host a
side event for six consecutive years, discover the story of BTF’s global engagement!
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🐘 2026 Blue Elephant (PUCO) Prevention Education & Contest Now Open ✨
A Blue Promise that protects our school!
Protect Our Schools! From prevention education programs delivered directly in schools to a contest built on collective ideas!
Join us in building safer schools for our children. Apply right now! 🏫💙
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🤖2026 <Harmonious AI Forum> Reviews
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of creating the “Harmonious Digital World” in collaboration between The Blue Tree Foundation, Kakao, and Kakao Impact🎉
Look back on 10 years of youth digital citizenship education in the digital era, and explore insights for the next decade in the age of AI!
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The Blue Tree Foundation
From: jikim0098@btf.or.krAddress: 88, Seocho-daero 46-gil, Seoul, South Korea
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