About Your Speaker

Dr. John Philip Louis holds a PhD from the UK in Clinical Psychology. His research uncovered 14 positive schemas and he developed and psychometrically validated several parenting scales which were published in peer reviewed journals. He was trained by Dr. Jeffrey Young, the founder of schema therapy and is a Certified Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. John and his wife, Karen are also developers of a schema therapy-based parenting programme called “Good Enough Parenting” and an accompanying marriage programme called “I Choose Us”. 

About Schema Therapy Certification Program

Louis Counselling & Training Services Pte Ltd and The SEL Network are jointly organizing an individual Schema Therapy Certification Programme (Level 1) in Singapore which is accredited by the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST). Upon completion of both Levels 1 and 2, clinicians and mental health professionals will be qualified to pursue ISST membership and accreditation as an ISST-certified schema therapist.

Schema Therapy Professional Training (Basic) - Schema Theory, Concepts and Techniques - Level 1 - LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Schema therapy concepts such as negative and positive schemas, coping styles and modes, core emotional needs
• Use of assessment tools needed to measure positive as well as negative schemas and post parenting patterns in both research and clinical practice
• Use of evidence-based intervention such as imagery, chair work and other strategies
• Use of therapy relationship to meet needs not met in childhood that are usually problematic in adulthood
• Pattern breaking strategies and conceptualization

A Schema Therapy Brief Outline

Research in Schema Therapy has uncovered 18 negative schemas and 14 positive schemas (”long lasting patterns of emotions, cognitions and memories”), which have been shown to be associated with a number of personality disorders such as borderline and narcissistic personality disorders. Schemas have also been shown to be linked with substance abuse, eating disorders, depression and anxiety as well as being road blocks in romantic and family relationships. At the core of Schema Therapy is the belief that needs not met adequately in childhood become sources of problems in adulthood. These needs have been identified to be Connection and Acceptance, Healthy Autonomy and Performance, Reasonable Limits, Healthy Responsibility and Standards. Clients work to find out what specific needs were not met in childhood as well as the specific schemas that are the driving force behind their dysfunction. Through collaboration with the therapist, client’s negative schemas are gradually weakened but their positive ones are strengthened, and wounds from childhood are gradually healed.

If you are a part-time or full-time student currently studying counselling or psychology online or mainstream, you can receive 50% off of the regular price of $950 ($475)!

About Your Facilitator

Mallika Kripalani is the Founder and Director of  The Conscious Zone. As a Mindfulness, Acceptance & Commitment Trainer (ACT) and certified Prosocial Matrix facilitator, she runs training sessions for corporate clients, and conducts school and public workshops on ACT with mindfulness techniques to reduce stress and boost resilience.

Mallika also runs ACT with Mindfulness and Parenting with Mindfulness Courses at SMU. She aims to help people identify problems and integrate mindfulness practices into the workplace and at home, to build greater peace of mind and healthier relationships. to better engage patients within hospitals and polyclinics.

Course Outline

People in Singapore face many challenges, and in order for individuals to grow and develop in this volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world, we need to learn how to increase our well-being in order to thrive. Using a combination of formal and informal mindfulness practices, as well as Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) strategies, this course is designed to help you understand ACT in a practical and experiential way. Understanding our own values in the different domains of life can help us develop psychological flexibility and resilience, where our behaviours and actions can determine how we live.

If you are a part-time or full-time student currently studying counselling or psychology online or mainstream, you can receive 50% off of the regular price of $900 ($450 Net)! If you are a teacher, let us know which school or institution you work for in the comments section and attend for $600 Net!

About Your Speakers

Anny and Prema are experienced Social workers living and working in Singapore, spending their time serving in a Family Service Centres. They are constantly in touch with children and their families and know first-hand their developmental struggles and respective life-stage experiences. They are proponents of Narrative Therapy having studied at Dulwich Centre and Melbourne University and have an exquisite knack for showing how relevant and effective narrative therapy is for children clients, their families, and why it is so core to their professional work!

Course Brief

Children in Singapore grow up in a unique environment. With no natural resources, Singapore’s thrust has always been to drive brainpower to the highest . Hence the gifted program and powering high PSLE scores. But this yields a cost within the social and mental world, especially for those below the age of 16.

Narrative Therapy helps get the balance right, using the story as the key metaphor in understanding and guiding the young child’s developmental life. As teachers, counsellors, therapists and psychologists, we need an embracing picture for us to understand school-going children. This is the time when their perceptions of the world and themselves are formed. Culture and history form the interpretive lenses which shape their lives into adulthood - who they become, who they marry if they choose, and who they hold dearest and love. All of these are formed at the tender age of seven and thereafter. With all this, we need narrative ideas and therapy to give us insight into their formative individual and social lives.

Who are the main figures in your life? How have they influenced you? Is there a need to “ re-author “ your life and how do you go about it? These and other issues will be discussed in detail within this essential 2-day workshop.

2-Day Course Outline

DAY 1
• Understand the concept of “Wonderful” and its usefulness in therapy
• Understand the child’s natural use of the story metaphor and how it relates in helping children in therapy
• Understand how most things are seen through cultural lenses and its relationship to Narrative Therapy
• Understand how cultural norms settle into young children
• Learn and use Narrative Therapy Map 1: Position Map
• Learn and use the Landscapes of Action and Identity in therapy with children

DAY 2
• Reauthoring conversations as applied to young minds and hearts
• Map 2: Getting into Details
• Addressing the unique situation the Singapore context raises for children
• Addressing the influences of social pressure to excel
• Confronting self-identity and finding the authentic self
• Re-Membering conversations as trigger mechanism

About Your Speaker

Chris Dolman is a social worker who has been engaging with narrative ideas and practices for the past fifteen years. He lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia. He values and enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families who are responding to a broad range of concerns in their lives and relationships. Chris is currently working as a narrative therapist in a government mental health service, and is also manager for a family counselling service for a community services organization. He holds a Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work and since 2009 has been a member of the Dulwich Centre Teaching Faculty with teaching assignments in China, Singapore, Turkey and Australia.

Family Violence Narrative Therapy - Level 1

Like other Narrative Therapy courses offered, this course is undergirded by concepts from literary theory, social anthropology, and modern vs. traditional power and gender politic discourses. This particular workshop also gives special attention to the sensitive work of addressing family violence within the particular context of Singapore. (This course also counts towards the Graduate Certificate in Narrative Therapy).

If you are a part-time or full-time student currently studying counselling or psychology online or mainstream, you can receive 50% off of the regular price of $700 ($350 Net)!

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.