About your Supervisor

Mr. Vik is a well sought after local trainer with over 16 years experience in training and teaching Motivational Interviewing for participants from the healthcare, social service, enforcement and the academic fields. He has also been in the counselling field for 19 years, spending 3 years in the social service industry and 16 years in the addictions and healthcare field. He has an academic background in both counselling and psychology, teaching at the Singapore University of Social Sciences for over 12 years. He is an executive committee member with the Association of Professionals Specialising in Addictions Counselling, a board member for the Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association and a council member for the National Council Against Drug Abuse. He is currently doing a workgroup project with the Ministry of Health looking at using Motivational Interviewing to work with individuals who have diabetes or pre-diabetes and teaching healthcare educators to better engage patients within hospitals and polyclinics.

Synopsis

Being a clinical supervisor is a role that should never be taken lightly as there are some level of vicarious liabilities attached to it.  Having a clinician trusting their supervisor to help them in their clinical skills, administrative skills and personal development is an important process. .This course prepares newly minted clinical supervisors and clinical mentors by their agency or association, (Counsellors, case managers, social workers, psychologist and clinicians in the counselling profession) on the expectations of being a level 1 clinical supervisor and conducting clinical supervision whether for individual supervisees or in a group. It teaches participants the basic knowledge and skills needed to be a competent level 1 clinical supervisor and land minds in clinical supervision to avoid as a rookie. It helps participants understand the legal & ethical issues, building a meaningful and therapeutic relationship with a supervisee and helping one’s supervisee with their personal development. This is a generic clinical supervisor course designed for clinicians with at least 4-5 years of clinical experience and are receiving regular supervision themselves and have mentorship or supervisory roles in their organisation.

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About Your Speaker

Since beginning her professional life in Adelaide South Australia as a school teacher, Carolyn has always worked to provide ethical and just services to children and their adult care givers. This work was informed by the philosophy of Narrative Ideas. Carolyn was trained and supervised by Michael White and David Epston the cofounders of Narrative therapy in the 1990s.

Carolyn’s work contexts include:

• School Counselling (children 5-19)
• Child and Family therapist – home based work in Non-Government organisations  
• Child and family counsellor responding to the effects of COVID, family violence and abuse
• Working with fathers who are facing up to acts of abuse
• Tertiary Lecturer in Community Services and Youth work  using Narrative Ideas
• Senior Faculty member of the Dulwich Centre, Adelaide – training Narrative ideas throughout Australia and Internationally

Carolyn is drawn to Narrative Therapy because of its commitment to nonblaming questioning styles, and attention to the politics of life and commitment to Feminist ethics. Narrative ideas are also strongly influenced by Indigenous and First Nations ethical understandings of community and Justice. Practically this means enabling children who feel like they are the problem to become aware of their skills and knowledge through skillful questioning and attention within the sociopolitical context in which they reside.

This Course Will Equip and Build on Your Skills to:

Have conversations with children and caregivers about traumatic events that do not traumatise them

How to bring children and caregivers (i.e. teachers) together against the problem rather than seeing the child as the problem

How to think about ideas of Power and expertise as a professional working with children   

How to involve other systems: schools, community to sustain the changes a family wants  

Understand how neurobiological impacts of trauma can contribute to narrative ideas   

This online course is energetic and practice based so come ready to try out the skills!

DAY 1

 1. Introductions and accountability to our clients

 2. Ideas that underpin Narrative Philosophy

 3. Overview of the Maps of Narrative practice

 4. How to build safety so young people and children will talk

 5. Practice and reflection

 6. Transcripts and roleplays

 7. Talking about Problems – Statement of Position Map

DAY 2

1. Problems that are Collective that never affect just one child

2. Listening for preferred stories using roleplays, transcripts and practice exercises

3. Listening and asking about how children respond to traumatic events

4. Transcripts and practice

5. Review of the 2 days and what will you put into practice

About Your Speaker

Christopher Raj holds a Masters in Counselling (Distinction) and Honours Degree in Biochemistry from University of Malaya, Malaysia and Post – Graduate Certification in Distance Education & Technology from Indiana University, USA. Currently, Chris' work focus is in three areas including:

Counselling (Counselling at Workplace; Career Counselling; Training in Counselling Skills) As a psychological counsellor, Christopher maintains an active counselling practise and is a registered Counsellor with the Malaysian Board of Counsellors. He advocates Cognitive Behaviour therapy in his practice for both individual and group counselling. His area of focus includes counselling at the workplace, career counselling and training in counselling skills. Christopher is also a licensed facilitator of the Leonard Personality Inventory (LPI), being coached by the author and inventor himself, Professor Dr Leonard Yong.

Learning & Development in Organizations (Training & Evaluation of Effectiveness of Training) Christopher is an accredited trainer and facilitator with the Human Resource Development Fund (Malaysia) and has attained his Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA) in Singapore.

Applying IR 4.0 Technology in Learning & Organizational functions (Smart Technology in Classrooms and Mobile Learning). Christopher is a keen advocate of applying technology in learning and industrial process that relates to customer centric businesses. He consults for organizations and educational institutes on using interactive teaching systems, smart technology and AI in customer centric organizational functions. At present, he manages his own company, which oversees two areas of business: Training & Interactive Teaching Solutions. Christopher is also a stakeholder in Kanborani guesthouse in Huraa Island, Maldives

Course Brief

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy is the foundation of Counsellor training. It is the backbone, the spine that holds the modalities.

We must know how the mind essentially works and how this influences how we feel and in turn determines how we act. Of course, mind-emotions-action happens very quickly, in real life. It can happen all at once, so we are hardly aware of the distinct stages. CBT brings us back to this point.

All modern modalities derive from CBT in part or wholly. There is nothing new under the sun! So let’s be clear about the mind as the central processing unit or seat of decision, as we go about our lives.

In this vibrant workshop, Chris will take us through
- Perception and Self-talk
- Personality
- Building Relationships
- Empathy
- role plays
- case studies and videos

Finally, we will learn about ourselves and then through this process, how to counsel others more patiently and empathetically.

Course Brief

• A strong connection exists between trauma and addiction.
• Trauma can lead to make individuals more vulnerable to addictive bevaviors.
• Numbness and loss of personality can result.
• To understand and treat addiction, a trauma-informed approach is utmost

In Adverse Childhood Experiences research, it has been found by researchers that as the number of Adverse Childhood Experiences increase, so too the risk of alcohol and other drug use in adulthood and problem gambling amongst others.
Childhood trauma results in impaired stress systems and bad effects on the immune system and emotion regulation skills.
So come enjoy this 2-day session with sumptuous hotel tea breaks as Nav and Vik lead the discussion. “

About Your Speakers

Mr. Vik is a well sought after local trainer with over 16 years experience in training and teaching Motivational Interviewing for participants from the healthcare, social service, enforcement and the academic fields. He has also been in the counselling field for 19 years, spending 3 years in the social service industry and 16 years in the addictions and healthcare field. He has an academic background in both counselling and psychology, teaching at the Singapore University of Social Sciences for over 12 years. He is an executive committee member with the Association of Professionals Specialising in Addictions Counselling, a board member for the Singapore Anti-Narcotics Association and a council member for the National Council Against Drug Abuse. He is currently doing a workgroup project with the Ministry of Health looking at using Motivational Interviewing to work with individuals who have diabetes or pre-diabetes and teaching healthcare educators to better engage patients within hospitals and polyclinics.

Ms. Navroop is a trauma informed person- centric psychotherapist in private practice. She is a trained EMDR therapist, Certified Brainspotter, TRE (Trauma Release Exercise) provider and SE (Somatic Experiencing) in training practitioner. She states it as a fact that everyone can heal and therefore she helps people get in touch with their own instinctual healing. Be it depression, anxiety, low self esteem, anger outbursts, addictions or relationship issues - she believes symptoms are not just mental illnesses but trauma responses, coping mechanisms and subconscious programming. To have sustained healing, the way forward is trauma informed healing along with purpose driven coaching. Her approach to healing is holistic, with a combination of talk therapy and brain body modalities. Her clientele ranges from teenagers to adults. She is the founder and CEO of “Heal with Nav”. A passionate mental health advocate, she hosts a series of webinars normalizing mental health struggles and destigmatizing need for therapy. She is part of many ongoing mental wellness initiatives in large organizations and NGO’s in Singapore, Australia and India.

About Your Speaker

Louise Hayes, Clinical Psychologist, MAPS, B.A., B.App.Sci (Hons), PhD (Clinical) is a world expert in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Training (ACT) for young people and the co-author of the best selling book, Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life for Teenagers: A Guide to Living an Extraordinary Life, and the forthcoming book for teachers, therapists and counsellors on ACT for young people, The Thriving Adolescent.

Course Brief

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy or ACT is a modern 21st century therapy that draws on CBT (cognitive therapy therapy) but adds a vital new dimension of FLEXIBILITY. This is a crucial quality client to maneuver the current social context otherwise they are closed off and feel caught in tight, demanding situations.

ACT is based on 6 principles. Defusion (to create space and prevent blow up), Acceptance (to stop resisting), Being Present (being in the here and now), Committed Action (something needs to be done), Self as Context (awareness of consciousness) and Values (the pivot that gives direction). Dr Louise has condensed these 6 principles in her DNA-v model for simplicity.

ACT gives both the Counsellor and Client that vital quality called Psychological Flexibility. Come, learn the dynamics of ACT and why it has become popular as an evidenced based modality that is sweeping the world.

What values will influence us to move from “to do" people to “to be" people? ACT provides the answers.