Move from Counselling Theories and Modalities into the Real World of Counselling

In a world filled with disparate knowledge coming from psychology and the social sciences, it can be a challenge for the new counselling graduate to integrate and use a clear and coherent approach to their practice. With this, we offer 5 essential and practical modalities to utilize including: CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy); ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy); Trauma Essentials; Narrative Therapy; and Motivational Interviewing. Come and feast from local experts who practise these modalities every day!  

CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) 20 Feb 2023
ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy) 07 Mar 2023
Trauma Essentials 15 Mar 2023
Narrative (Core Ideas) 23 Mar 2023
Motivational Interviewing 31 Mar 2023

Special for:
• Counselling Graduates at first day of work
• Counsellor needing a refresher course
• School Counsellors needing to focus on key approaches from a maze of theories

Move from Counselling Theories and Modalities into the Real World of Counselling

In a world filled with disparate knowledge coming from psychology and the social sciences, it can be a challenge for the new counselling graduate to integrate and use a clear and coherent approach to their practice. With this, we offer 5 essential and practical modalities to utilize including: CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy); ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy); Trauma Essentials; Narrative Therapy; and Motivational Interviewing. Come and feast from local experts who practise these modalities every day!  

Special for:
• Counselling Graduates at first day of work
• Counsellor needing a refresher course
• School Counsellors needing to focus on key approaches from a maze of theories

About Your Speakers

Course speakers: Mr. Ian Poulier, Mr. Andrew Ponniah and Mr. Charlie New with role play expert, Mr. Joseph John.

Course Brief

Grief Therapy has become key in today’s world. With its relentless pace and rate of change, the world says, without emotion, “Hurry up, you gotta catch up, otherwise you’ll be left behind”. So we push ourselves along life’s highways always going faster. But we don’t know where we are going. And then we experience a slow down - a loss of someone close, a mother, an aunt or a brother or friend. It could also be the end of a relationship, or the parting of ways that foretells we have ended a phase in life and need to move on. And COVID-19 too. They all spell GRIEF - the absence of someone we love, the loss of job and predictability and then we bury it in ourselves. Handling grief is critical. We need to know how to handle it ourselves before we can help others as counsellors or therapists. What are some useful theories? How do we approach grief given that we will all experience it? What is there to learn? Am I open to change? Who should I turn to? Will I allow myself to feel the pain, or do I just numb it?

DAY 1
• Theories of Grief Counselling
• Tree of Grief
• Is the Goal to Always Get Over Grief?
• Stages of Grief
• How to Stabilise Someone Going
Through Grief (Skill Sets)
• Practical Examples Discussed

DAY 2
• Recap Day 1
• Traditional (Grief to Be Overcome), Narrative (Grief to Be Lived Through), Spiritual (Grief Is a Gift)
and Contemporary Approaches (Syncretic)
• Cultural Expressions of Grief
• Modern Expressions of Grief
• Different Settings (Family, Hospitals, etc.)
• Question and Answer Time

About Your Speaker

Chris Dolman is a social worker who has been engaging with narrative ideas and practices for the past 20 years. He lives and works in Adelaide, South Australia, and values and enjoys working with individuals, couples, and families who are responding to a broad range of concerns in their lives and relationships. Chris currently works as a narrative therapist in a government mental health service, and also with the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, developing resources to support practitioners’ skill development. He holds a Master of Narrative Therapy and Community Work and since 2009 he has been a member of the Dulwich Centre Teaching Faculty with teaching assignments in Beijing, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Kigali, Singapore, and Australia.

Course Brief

This three-day workshop has been specially designed for those who are relatively new to narrative therapy and who are interested in exploring some of its key ideas and practices. It will introduce participants to a number of topics including:

• Key ideas that inform narrative practices.
• Conversations that externalise and contextualise problems.
• Richly describing stories that sustain and strengthen people and communities.
• Countering isolation through re-membering conversations.
• Engaging audiences and documenting preferred stories.

 The workshop will be a mixture of a presentation of theory, sharing practice examples and discussion in small groups. Opportunities will be provided for participants to begin to develop their own skills in narrative practice through training exercises. There will also be time set aside for questions as well as opportunities for participants to relate their learning to their own contexts.

About Your Speaker

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 practice

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.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will have had the opportunity to learn the following:

• Understanding what determines psychological flexibility 
• Learning both informal and formal mindfulness practices
• Learn to deal with difficult emotions using practical strategies
• Choice Point for daily actions
• Identifying values in different domains
• The workability model
• ACT Matrix for Psychological Flexibility
• Understanding intrinsic motivation and how to apply that to different domains
• Incorporate increased positivity into our daily life
• Goal setting and making time for new positive behaviour changes

Testimonials

“Sharing by the facilitator - Mallika is really good! I am thankful to have come here. Thank you!” Maybelle L.
 
“It made me more aware of why I react in certain situations in a particular way and how to deal with them. Also, made me a better listener.” Maryam S.it from you.” Sri L.
 
“I’m so happy and feel grateful to attend this class. The teacher is so nice and compassionate, the friends are so nice and kind. The material is so beneficial and gives me more knowledge.” Wiyana