About Your Speaker

Rose Faquir holds more than 13 years of experience working with young persons and adults from various cultural and societal background. She holds special interest in helping trauma survivors to resolve their past so they can be free to embrace their future. Rose is the founder and the clinical director of Restoring Peace Counselling and Consultancy Pte Ltd, a private mental health clinic which provide counselling and psychotherapy for various mental health challenges, including trauma, anxiety, grief, depression and personality disorder.

Rose holds several accreditations, including a Registered Clinical Counsellor and a Registered Clinical Supervisor with Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC), a Certified Substance Abused Therapist with Asia Pacific Certification Board (APCB), Certified (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)¬ Practitioner with EMDR Singapore, A Certified Choice Theory Reality (CTRT) Practitioner with the William Glasser Institute and a Certified Sandplay and Symbol Works Therapist with Expressive Therapies Australia. She holds a Master of Arts in counselling from the TCA College, a Post Graduate Diploma in Counselling from the University of Wales, a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Supervision from the Swinburne University of Technology and a Bachelor in social science (community works and applied counselling) from the Edith Cowan University.

Course Brief

Childhood and teenagehood is arguably the most vulnerable period of a person’s life as children are highly dependent on adults to satisfy their basic needs, which make them particularly susceptible to trauma and potentially traumatic experience in their life. Most young people experience at least one traumatic event, such as failing to achieve the desired academic result, peer rejection, bullying or family issues. It is difficult for young people to open up about their traumatic experiences to an adult because they are often misunderstood or minimised. However, prolonged exposure to trauma can confuse young people and significantly affect their ability to cope psychologically.

This workshop aims to help parents, teachers, caregivers or people who work with young people to have insights into the young person’s traumatic experiences. It seeks to clarify some of the misconceptions and myths about trauma in the mental health space and to replace these with a better understanding of what trauma is and how it can affect young people.

OUTLINE
• Understanding trauma
• Different types of trauma
• Impact on traumatic experience on young persons
• Identifying signs of trauma
• Responding and supporting young trauma survivors

YOUR SPEAKERS

MAIN TRAINER

Dr Porter is a Registered Clinical Psychologist living in Christchurch, New Zealand in private practice. He is a Certified MI Trainer by the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers. Since 2003, Joel has been providing MI training around the world. He has lead Training New Trainers events for the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, as well as other ToT projects in New Zealand and Australia. Joel is a Senior Clinical Lecturer, National Addiction Centre, University of Otago and an Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Applied Psychology, University of Canberra.

SUPPORT TRAINER

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.

COURSE BRIEF

This two-day intensive workshop with highly experienced MI trainers will provide you with the knowledge, skills and confidence to effectively develop and deliver MI workshops. This training of trainers (ToT) workshop is designed for those who have had at least an introductory MI training and desire more training and more advanced proficiency in using MI. You will learn every step of the MI training process. From understanding learning styles and needs of others, through to structuring and delivering sound MI workshops.

TOPICS COVERED

• Adult learning theory
• Consolidating and developing your MI skills
• The format of an introductory MI workshop
• Facilitating MI skills building exercises
• Providing feedback to learners
• Assessing MI Skills and coaching
• Opportunities to learn by observation, practice and feedback.
• Time for questions and discussion

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Psychologists, social workers, counsellors, nurses, physicians, educators, and other people with previous training in MI who have desire to share MI with others.

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

Given the prevalence of family violence many practitioners who work with families across a broad range of concerns will invariably encounter issues of violence and abuse in families. This three-day online workshop is designed for practitioners who are interested in exploring the contribution narrative therapy can make to their work with men who engage in intimate partner violence. This workshop will equip participants with the following:

• An understanding of the ways narrative practices supports principles of safety, responsibility, accountability, respect and fairness when working with men who use intimate partner violence;
• Knowledge of how the narrative metaphor and the intentions of rich story development can be applied to working with men who hurt people they care about;
• Considerations of the power relations of men’s use of violence and abuse and the power relations of therapy;
• The opportunity to further develop therapeutic skills in conversations that invite men to explore:

1. What is important to him in his relationships with his partner and children
2. His experiences of shame in relation to his use of violence and abuse
3. Naming and explanations for his use of violence that support the safety of his family
4. Increasingly detailed and accountable understandings of the effects of his violence
5. His personal agency in developing family relationships of safety and respect

Examples will be used to demonstrate these ideas and practices, and opportunities will be provided for participants to engage in skill development exercises as well as consider how these practices might complement their existing skills, knowledge and Certificate in Management of Family Violence training.

YOUR SPEAKER

Ian Poulier is a trained counsellor with extensive experience in counselling youth and young adults. As a counsellor, Ian believes it is important to understand the client in the context of their value systems. Applying a person-centred approach undergirded by a social emotional learning framework (SEL), Ian is continually challenged to bring the clients he engages with to be empowered to reach their fullest potential. He is currently working at The SEL Network LLP and a well-known facilitator and speaker at workshops, conferences, seminars, in both educational and corporate settings. He hosted TEENTALK on 93.8LIVE and mentored focus groups with different schools. He is also actively called upon to give advice and opinions by the journalists of the New Paper. Ian has been a professional Counsellor serving both local and international schools and in a VWO. He has coauthored a book, HeartWarmers, a collection of prose and poetry.

COURSE BRIEF

Grief Therapy has become vital 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 - the loss of someone close, a mother, aunt, 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 valuable 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? 

YOUR SPEAKER

Benny Bong is a Family and Marital Therapist who has almost forty years of experience in counselling, providing training and supervising various Helping Professionals  from Psychologists, Counsellors, Social Workers and Pastoral Workers. He is an adjunct Lecturer at the National University of Singapore, Singapore University of Social Sciences and the Singapore Bible College. 

COURSE BRIEF

Despite the growing emphasis on personal needs, rights and empowerment, one’s family still plays an important part in our existence and development. It is literally the cradle from which we come, the first “school” from where we learn important lessons in life, our support base when we encounter a harsh world and even in our later years, the place where we express compassion and care to our ageing elders and then to receive it from our adult children. So family matters how we care for it and, in turn, how it cares for us too. This two-day course will focus on how, as Helpers, we can care for families. When families are well supported, they can be more effective caregivers.