ZOOM - Counselling Insights: Worry, Anxiety and Isolation in COVID19 Days - 15 May 2020 - 9:30-11:30 am

Our Speakers

Mr. Andrew Ponniah has experience in Management and Education. Now a part time counsellor for a church for two years, he enjoys the company of young people and loves the vitality they bring. He has studied in Singapore, United Kingdom and Australia, is ACTA certified and the Director of the SEL Network.

Mr. Ian Poulier has been a resident counsellor for many years in Singapore, has past experience hosting for a radio segment on counselling the young. His Degree and Graduate studies are in Literature and Counselling and is ACTA. He is a Partner and Consultant for the SEL Network.

Mr. Charlie New has experience as art instructor, teacher, and counsellor with a BA in Education and a Master of Arts in Counselling. He is the administrator for the SEL Network.

Course Introduction and Outline

These are dark days. An end to predictability of food and supply chains and events we take as normal - is this the demise of our Singaporean way of life? These are precursors to a “new normal” including new economic realities and social norms. But what about me? The single? The career person? The newly married? What about my job?  Who’s paying the mortgage? These are multiple everyday leaks. Panic, worry, and feeling isolated are natural. How do I deal with it? Join SEL as Ian, Charlie, and Andrew explore:

Worry Escalation- How Panic & Worry Set In
• The Worry Monster Strikes
• What Worry Does to Me
• Why Won’t the Worry Monster Go Away?
• Small Group Discussion Exercise

How to Respond in a Balanced Way
• Poise and the Art of Living - Children as an Example
• Engage with Nature - Innate Desire to Get in Touch with Our Roots
• Physically Apart But Connecting Hearts & Spirits

Feelings of Isolation that Develop
• John Donne’s Meditation 17 Introduction
• Nurturing Mental Health in the New-Normal of Self and/or Family Isolation
• Keeping Self Isolation from Becoming Emotional Isolation - Keeping Communication Open & Healthy
• Reframing Isolation with Change Talk
• Small Group Discussion Exercise

Looking to the Future
• Paying Attention to EQ
• Developing Spirituality - Learning How to Discern Wisely - How You Start and End the Day
• Being Weak and Not a Weakling

Will I Recover and How Do I Get Back?
• The Need for Self Awareness
• Staying with the Feelings
• Navigating the Emotions
• Small Group Discussion Exercise

This is a unique 2-hour ZOOM presentation complete with notes and exercises so you can learn from the comfort of your own home. Register here on our website and we will send you an invitation link via email to the zoom meeting before 15 May.

Please make cheque payable to "The SEL Network LLP" and addressed to 39 Aida Street, Singapore 459964. For interbank GIRO (SEL 2010A) or Interbank Transfer UOB Acct NO [375 302 804 6]. Please email Ian at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with date of transaction, name of organization, person attending workshop and screenshot of transaction. 

Cheques and payments need to be received before invitation email is sent for your course - thank you!

Please note: Circumstances permitting, instructors will meet at Village Hotel Katong only - to conduct session - while participants will remain home for course session.