About Your Speaker

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.

Course Brief

In today’s VUCA world (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity), Trauma is much more prevalent than we might want to consider. Ranging from wars, accidents to relational trauma, it’s everywhere. This course will help participants to have a sound knowledge about essentials of Trauma and the associated concepts relevant to trauma work. This would enable participants to appreciate the importance of trauma informed and develop the capacity to apply this knowledge to professional practice.

- Define trauma
- Different types of trauma
- Why learn about trauma
- Neurobiology of trauma
- Polyvagal theory
- Window of tolerance
- Relational aspect of trauma
- How to apply these concepts to trauma informed care

About Your Speaker

Dr. Stephanie Diez-Morel is an assistant professor of graduate social work at Pennsylvania Western University. Dr. Diez-Morel is the co-lead for the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM Gaming Disorder Taskforce where she leads an interdisciplinary group of international experts in Gaming Disorder on proposing up to date criteria for the diagnosis of Gaming Disorder. She is an international trainer and speaker and has presented clinical courses to 10,000 trained helping professionals. Dr. Diez-Morel has authored numerous scientific presentations and journal articles, as well as appeared in international media on a variety of radio, podcasts, and news outlets to discuss the topic of addictions, gaming disorder and other addictions. In 2013, Dr. Diez-Morel founded Reboot & Recover, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing education, prevention, treatment, and research on gaming disorder and other technology-based addictions.

Diez-Morel earned her Ph.D. from Florida International University where she was awarded a student scholar in Health Disparities Research Fellowship offered through the Center for Research on US Latino HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse (CRUSADA) funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As a C-SALUD Student Scholar in Health Disparities Research Fellow, Dr. Diez-Morel’s research contributed to the reduction and prevention of health disparities affecting youth and families in the United States. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Dr. Diez-Morel has worked for decades within nonprofit community organizations and in community hospitals providing direct clinical services to children, families, and adults experiencing addiction. In addition, she has provided clinical trainings, education and consultation to address addictions among various communities including medical professionals, counselors, healthcare workers, educators, caregivers, and school aged children.

• Co-authored book on internet addictions
• Working member on DSM 5 Committee for internet gaming addiction
• Asst. Professor in Social Work in USA
• Understands the crucial convergence of gaming and gambling wants of the young
• Poised to become leading authority worldwide on internet addiction
• Founder and President, Reboot & Recover, Inc., 2013- Present

Course Brief

Internet Gaming Disorder, excessive social media use and the convergence of gambling in online gaming is a real problem with the adolescence and youth in Singapore impacting them at an alarming rate. Some kids with ADHD, and developmental issues like autism and other moderate to severe psychiatric issues are at risk of losing control of their online use. Even kids as young as 4 have easy access to the internet. Not much focus has been used by some parents or guardians to regulate their child’s internet use when it comes to gaming, social media and other non-academic activities. While the internet has revolutionised the world and has given many benefits to mankind it also comes with its dangerous downside when not appropriately regulated. Dr. Diez-Morel will be speaking about how to screen, assess and work with individuals with a gaming disorder and the other activities associated with it. She will also focus on the importance of how to help families and significant others help a loved one who may have a gaming disorder.

Come and join us as Dr Stephanie shares her wealth of knowledge and experiences with us in this new field of gaming disorders with a limited number of experts in the area. We have divided the training into Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 is a generalised broad sweep focusing on core addiction areas while Part 2 in November and December employing Dr Stephanie’s manual for effective treatment and intervention.

Course Brief

“If it doesn’t matter to people around me that I’m not around tomorrow onwards, then I might as well end it all for me and actually not be around.”
How do Counsellors or related persons deal with this? Many people In Singapore are perplexed. How do we handle this and get into clients narratives or story-making and say suicide is not an option to consider. Suicide, deep down, is a moral issue and entanglement or messed up lives require our time and understanding.
The digital economy drives an already high paced society even faster. If you can’t cope, how do you then manage? “The world’s gone crazy, I’m getting off.” A sad indictment and it happens more often nowadays, pulling in the young too. Come join David Newman who has vast experience in this area and learn...
Course Outline
• Suicide ideation
• What makes people take their own lives?
• Understanding suicide
• Narrative approaches
• Identity
• What has become de-stabilising?
• Case-studies
This workshop will also explore an approach to working with suicidal experience that:
• de-centres the worker and assessment, rather than centres workers safety strategies and risk assessment,
• emphasises the know-how and expertise from those who have suicidal experience via:
◦ rich and varied feedback on what is preferred in conversations and in service delivery, and
◦ collective documents of life saving know-how, and
these links will offer more of a sense of the work that will be shared:
https://dulwichcentre.com.au/responding- to-suicidal-thoughts/
https://dulwichcentre.com.au/holding-our-heads-up/

About Your Speaker

David Newman works in independent practice at Sydney Narrative Therapy, is an honorary clinical fellow at Melbourne University School of Social work and is a member of the Dulwich Centre teaching faculty. Recent teaching assignments have included Brazil, Nepal, Turkey, Hong Kong and Palestine. David has just finished up working part time in a psychiatric unit for young people. David is passionate about effective and respectful ways of working with people around mental health and suicidal experience. He is the author of “How we deal with ‘way out thoughts’: A living document of ways of talking with young people about suicidal thoughts” (2016, Dulwich Centre Publications) and co-author with Marnie Sather of “’Being More Than Just Your Final Act': Elevating the Multiple Storylines of Suicide with Narrative Practice" in the book Critical Suicidology (2015, UW Press) and of the resource “Holding our heads up: sharing stories not stigma when a loved one has suicided” (2016, Dulwich Centre Publications). It is possible to find out more about David’s work by watching this presentation: https://dulwichcentre.com.au/assisting-young-people-to-find-their-language-through-the-language-of-others-knowledge-from-an-inpatient-ward-by-david-newman/

Course Brief

Based on the work of Michael White and David Epston, Narrative Therapy involves ways of understanding the stories of people’s lives and ways of re-authoring their stories collaboratively between therapist and the people whose lives are being discussed. With more in-session guidance and practice, this Level 2 Part 1 course delves more deeply into the concepts originally introduced within the Narrative Therapy Introduction course.

Session Key Concepts

• Externalization of the

• Problem: Where Person is Not the Problem, the Problem is the Problem

• Re-authoring Identity

• Working with Maps of Narrative Practices: Landscape of Action & Landscape of Identity

• Re-membering: Developing the Idea that Identity is Shaped by Social Connections and the ‘Club of Life’

About Your Speaker

Mohammed Fareez is the Senior Assistant Director of the Ang Mo Kio Family Service Centre and Graduate of the Masters in Narrative Therapy and Community Work in collaboration between Dulwich Centre and The University of Melbourne.

Course Brief

Your training will include a mix of lecture, use of video clips by Irvin Yalom and Corey & Corey showing specific techniques, and workshop participation with experiential groups.

DAY 1

Definition of the types of groups, the group experience, what is group therapy and why we use them
• Roles of members and group the facilitator/s
• Pre-group task and how to start up a group (ground rules, logistics, paperwork, funding, refreshments, selecting members, and group evaluations)
• Being part of an experiential group and video clips by Irvin Yalom and Corey & Corey
• Use of the HERE AND NOW as an existential concept in Group Therapy
• Stages of group development (Yalom and Tuckman): Initial, Transitional, Working and Termination or Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing & Adjourning

DAY 2

• Yalom’s Eleven Therapeutic or Curative Factors
• Working with Difficult Group Members
• Co-Facilitation Model in Group work
• Multicultural Issues in Group Work
• Supervision Matters in Group Work

About Your Speaker

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.