Caregiving can take an emotional and physical toll on any person giving time and effort, be in in caring for a loved one or in a professional capacity. Quite often those cared for might see themselves imposing on the caregiver, causing more emotional stress to both parties.

In this 2 day workshop, participants will be given opportunities to reflect on their roles as caregivers, to share and listen their experiences with similar experiences of other participants, through simple exercises using the work of Parker J Palmer and his Circle of Trust approach

Trainer: Greg Sunter

Greg Sunter runs Wholehearted Enterprises, a Training Organization based in Brisbane Australia and is a trained facilitator in the Circle of Trust approach under the auspices of the Center of Courage and Renewal, USA

This is a program for caregivers and allied health professionals.
This program is designed for people who devote substantial amounts of their energy providing care for others or for a single person, whether through employment in areas of allied health or solely through personal commitment.

Trainer: Greg Sunter

ACT is a needful offspring of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. When applied to young people of all ages and cultures,  it surprises . It works . Come listen to Dr Louise Hayes, writer of a seminal book on ACT. Her second time in Singapore. ACT advocates an opportunity to be in the here and now with your client and develop a mindfulness approach to helping your client overcome obstacles faced. Dr. Louise Hayes, author of Thriving Adolescent, will introduce ACT and its approach to working with young people to develop a safe and effective therapeutic relationship.

What is Compassion Focused Therapy?

CFT is an integrative psychology model that focuses on the cultivation and application of compassion for both self and others. CFT integrates cognitive-behavioral therapy techniques with developmental and social psychology and affective neuroscience. The approach was originally developed by Professor Paul Gilbert for clients with high-levels of self-criticism and shame and has a growing evidence base for a variety of clinical disorders and presentations. Practicing compassion has been shown to have powerful effects on physiological, psychological and social processes, specifically in the regulation of threat-focused emotion.

What is Motivational Interviewing?

Motivational Interviewing (MI) was brought into Singapore ten years ago from the US and builds especially on the Carl Rogers person-centred approach to therapy. It is excellent in cases of addiction, and as a transtheoretical model, useful for all client’s ambivalence towards change. It also helps individuals move away from unhelpful external motivations towards clarifying personal values, and building inner strength. Based on the ground breaking work of William Miller and Stephen Rollnick’s book, Motivational Interviewing, Helping People Change, this model approach has revolutionized counselling, asking carefully crafted questions within a collaborative conversational style, strengthening the client’s own problem-solving skills, motivation and commitment toward lasting, stable change.