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 $800 ($400 Net)! Teachers pay $600.

Your Speakers

Ms. Ong Pei Ni has been practising social work for the past fifteen years and is currently a Principal Social Worker in a community-based social service agency. She has prior experience in managing a team of social workers and counsellors. In her current position, she provides individual and group clinical supervision for staff and conducts regular training and clinical competency building programmes. She has vast experience over the last 15 years working with multi-stressed families and individuals with trauma. She had obtained a Master of Social Work (child welfare certification) with the University of Michigan Ann-Arbor, USA. For the past three years, Pei Ni had begun to incorporate and implement trauma-informed ideas and practices in her clinical practice and supervision.  

Mr. Moh'd Fareez is the Senior Assistant Director for the Ang Mo Kio Family Service Centre and a Graduate of the Masters in Narrative Therapy and Community Work in collaboration with the Dulwich Centre and the University of Melbourne. Fareez is the Narrative Therapist (NT) guru and will lead the course section on NT and trauma specifically on how trauma can affect identity and story, and how to work narratively in getting back within the recovery process.

Course Overview

Children in Trauma. It’s a very understated title for a workshop because few want to acknowledge it, or face up to it. The pandemic has made it worse.
But we need to, for the sake of unknown children, find ways to help them cope with abusive adults, parents, relatives and friends. These children need their story told and understood, and their trauma released from their bodily and emotional systems.

As this workshop shows, the way to healing is clear, but as therapists, discipline is needed, balanced with mutual trust, building respect with the child, advocates and the process. Together, we need to forge a sense of partnership that says “you are not alone in your suffering “.

Join Pei Ni and Fareez as they as they walk us through child development, somatic experiences and the proper discharge of trauma. Case studies in the Singaporean context will be used and an engaging session with you, the field person, will ensue. You don’t want to miss this!

DAY ONE
• Child Development
• The Changing Family Scene
• Upheavals & Social Care Organisations
• Scars of Trauma: Physical, Mental, and Emotional

DAY TWO
• Case Studies & Practical Situations
• The Polyvagal Theory
• The Yellow, Green & Red Zones
• How Trauma is Stored in Humans
• Group Work and Questions

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)!

A Course Brief

Narrative Therapy was developed as an approach to counselling in response to the power relations influencing individual’s lives. One of the key concepts of narrative therapy is the dominant problem-saturated story of the person is challenged by externalizing the problem, and through therapy, helps facilitate the development of an alternative narrative. Within this process, a definitional ceremony involving outsider witnesses is used in influencing these narrative shifts. First the individual is given the opportunity to reappear and to retell their story in front of witnesses. Then, the witnesses are encouraged to retell parts of the story that moved them in a special way, reflecting how their own perspectives may have been challenged or changed after hearing the person share. These re-authoring conversations give hope to many, helping to make sense out of pain and loss, reconnecting individuals to themselves and to their community as a whole.

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.

Narrative Therapy Level 2 Part 2 Course Description and Details to Come Soon!

This course is appropriate for adults who nurture and work with young people ages 12-24 years.

DISOUNTS: Students, Teachers and Family Service Centre Staff can attend for $400.

If you are a part-time or full-time student currently studying counselling or psychology online or mainstream - please send us a picture of your current student ID and we will bill you for $400.

Teachers (in kindergartens and schools up to ITEs, polytechnics and universities) and FSC Staff, please send us a letter at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. stating you are an employer at your school or FSC respectively and once registered online, we will adjust payment and bill you for $400. Thank you.

About Your Facilitators

Qamaruzzaman Amir is passionate about knowledge, hence his vocation as an educator. From the age of 18, he has believed in and honed his educator practice with the idea that “education is a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future”. Consequently, besides physics and theory of knowledge, Q facilitated a capacity-building peace education program that involved his own students as well as participants in Sri Lanka, Timor Leste and the communities along the Thai-Myanmar border. He was part of the core team that led and developed this youth peace-building program over 11 years. He is currently a PhD candidate focused on transformative learning and building, and their significance for affective education, specifically peace education.

M. Htang Dim @ Angela M.A (TESOL) , M.S (Counselling Psychology) is an attentive educator and teacher, who keen on supporting Social Emotional Learning, a lecture at the English Department, Faculty of Humanities in Chiang Mai University. She has served by providing teacher training and parenting education and by working in various roles in the early childhood care and development sectors not only in the Chiang Mai area but also across the Thai-Myanmar border area and inside Myanmar. Her research and service work mostly involves children and families living in the Thai-Myanmar border area, including those living in refugee camps, with a focus on marginalized children, displaced youth of transnational labor migrants, and migrants fleeing from conflict zone. She often works with international organizations towards better collaboration and service, with community leaders to help develop capacity through technical assistance, and with government agencies to advocate for improved, comprehensive policies development to support needy people. Apart from those, she is an independent counselor by providing psychosocial support and school guidance counselor to youths, especially migrants. Her practice on being educator and teacher is that “It is vital that when educating our children’s brains we do not neglect to educate their hearts.” ~ Dalai Lama

Special Guest Speaker Amy Franklin is the author of Choose to Change - A Step-by-Step Teaching Guide for Fostering Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom, and An Integrated Model of Emotional Intelligence, a conceptual framework that informs the development of keystone skills for living and leading well. She holds a PhD from Tulane University in Latin American Studies, a MPH from Tulane University in Public Health and Tropical Medicine, a MEd from the University of New Orleans in Counselor Education, and a BA from St. John’s College-Annapolis. Amy is a licensed Mental Health Counselor for the state of New Mexico.

Because of the COVID-19 situation, Amy is currently based in New Mexico USA. She is an independent Educational Consultant bringing skills and concepts of emotional intelligence, social and emotional learning and mindfulness to schools and humanitarian organizations to the region. Next year she will be conducting a course for SEL Network when she is in Thailand.

Course Brief

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) skills are readily modeled, nurtured and strengthened in early childhood. Very young babies demonstrate empathy and children, constantly watching and mimicking the actions of the adults in their lives, are uniquely impressionable as they develop social and emotional skills and attitudes that will likely inform the rest of their lives.

Therefore this developmental stage provides educators and parents with a particular privilege and responsibility: to embody and model compassion, understanding, accountability, choice, and integrity.

Join this two-day interactive workshop to better understand foundational EQ skills and concepts and how to develop useful tools in this impressionable age group. Expect to participate, interact and reflect as we practice and refine key developmentally appropriate lessons to build emotional literacy, empathy, consequential thinking, and agency.

This workshop is also well suited for educators, counsellors, and parents, providing skills and concepts that help the child’s support team communicate more effectively, respectfully holding one another mutually accountable, align actions with values, practices with intentions, providing more ease, joy, sustainability and coherence in bringing forth the overall emotional and social growth of the child.

Please Note: Completion of Level 1 Schema Therapy course is a prerequisite for this course.

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 & 2) 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.

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.

Schema Therapy Professional Training Level 2

LEVEL 2 will build on LEVEL 1 material, reinforcing key ideas and focusing on imaging work. LEARNING OUTCOMES:

• Schema Mode Work with Borderline Personality Disorders
• Schema Mode Work with Narcissistic Personality Disorders and
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
• Signs of Therapist’s Schema Interference in Treatment
• Limited Reparenting with Child Modes
• Confronting and Limit Setting for Punitive and Demanding Parent Modes
• Emphatic Confrontation/Limit Setting for Maladaptive Coping Modes