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.

Family Violence Narrative Therapy

Like other Narrative Therapy courses offered, this course is undergirded by concepts from literary theory, social anthropology, and modern vs. traditional power and gender politic discourses. However, this particular workshop gives special attention to the sensitive work of addressing family violence within the particular context of Singapore. (This course also counts towards the Graduate Certificate in Narrative Therapy).

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)!

Course Overview

This 2-day essential workshop is designed to provide helping professionals an understanding of the definition of "trauma" in our local Singapore context and how trauma can impact life and health throughout the lifespan. We will discuss the elements of trauma informed care and how this approach will be useful in our practice with seemingly "challenging" and "resistant' clients we see in our community or various counselling spaces. We will also be discussing how we integrate leading and latest treatment methods such as Mindfulness, Somatic and Narrative modalities into a pragmatic approach of practice namely "Release, Regulate and Restore". In addition, participants will focus on using practical strategies  in small group practice case discussions.  

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to:
• Understand complex and developmental trauma and their effects on life and health
• Discuss and reframe the impacts of trauma such as distressing symptoms and behaviours of children and adults as adaptations to trauma
• Learn a practical approach of practice called "Release, Regulate and Restore" to enhance regulation and stabilization for persons with trauma
• Learn how to equip clients with regulation techniques to manage trauma symptoms
• Understand concepts and procedures for enhancing the therapeutic relationship and "co-regulation" as methods for stabilization
• Learn a framework on how to integrate leading trauma informed treatment modalities into participants' existing approaches and practices

Who Should Attend This Course

New or existing social workers, counsellors, staff working in the child, youth and family or mental health sectors especially community based social service agencies (SSA), para-counsellors, and other social service practitioners in a range of sectors (i.e. schools, residential homes).

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 $700 ($350 Net)!

What is Motivational Interviewing?

Motivational Interviewing (MI) was brought into Singapore ten years ago from the US and builds especially on the Carl Rogers person-centred approach to therapy. It is excellent in cases of addiction, and as a transtheoretical model, useful for all client’s ambivalence towards change. It also helps individuals move away from unhelpful external motivations towards clarifying personal values, and building inner strength. Based on the ground breaking work of William Miller and Stephen Rollnick’s book, Motivational Interviewing, Helping People Change, this model approach has revolutionized counselling, asking carefully crafted questions within a collaborative conversational style, strengthening the client’s own problem-solving skills, motivation and commitment toward lasting, stable change.

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 $1200 ($600 Net)!

About Your Speaker

Dr. Hayley Quinn PhD, is an experienced clinical psychologist, trainer and the current President of Compassionate Mind Australia. She runs her own private clinical practice, with a particular focus on Compassionate Focused Therapy, assisting people experiencing: anxiety, trauma related issues, chronic pain, grief and loss. As an expert trainer, she offers her clinical work experiences to deliver high-quality training that is meaningful and applicable for clinicians.

Prior to starting her own private practice, Dr. Quinn worked in community, multicultural and hospital based settings. Facilitating a day program within a specialised trauma and dissociation unit, she deepened her nuanced understanding of the harmful effects of fear, shame and loss of connection, clarifying the importance of compassion-focused work, especially with complex clients.

Dr. Quinn is passionate about the role of personal practice in assisting clinicians in cultivating a caring orientation towards suffering within themselves and others. She supports clinicians in incorporating compassion focused practice into their personal lives as well as in their clinical work, creating forced-multiplied outcomes, increasing overall capacity for caring, courage and wisdom offered to themselves and others!

What is Compassion Focused Therapy?

CFT is an integrative psychology model that focuses on the cultivation and application of compassion for both self and others. CFT integrates cognitive-behavioural therapy techniques with developmental and social psychology and affective neuroscience. The approach was originally developed by Professor Paul Gilbert for clients with high-levels of self-criticism and shame and has a growing evidence base for a variety of clinical disorders and presentations. Practicing compassion has been shown to have powerful effects on physiological, psychological and social processes, specifically in the regulation of threat-focused emotional experiences and the development of a caring orientation to suffering.

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 $950 ($475 Net)!

About Your Speaker

Dr. Ian Percy MSW PhD is a therapist, supervisor, consultant, trainer and published author in narrative and mindfulness approaches. He is an Accredited Mental Health Social Worker, a Clinical Member of the Australian Association of Family Therapy and an Accredited Psychotherapy Supervisor with The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

Ian teaches professional development courses in counselling and psychotherapy for social service agencies, universities and private organisations. He specialised in training colleagues in Narrative Therapy since 1997. 

Ian has taught internationally and given workshops and papers at state, national and global conferences. He was an invited Plenary Speaker on spiritualities at the 8th Social Work in Health and Mental Health conference in Singapore. He has received two university awards for academic excellence.

About the Training

Re-membering Conversations and Internalised Other Interviewing seek to reengage with significant people from personal history who have, in important ways, shaped who we have become. They belong to our life stories, to our prior selves. They contribute to a multi-voiced, multi-bodied and multi-storied sense of self. We will consider how people show this self to others and how they hold others in memory. Such explorations can have significant therapeutic implications.

This is an experiential and practical two-day workshop. Though it is not therapy, trainees will attend with a willingness to explore certain aspects of their personal histories. They will take responsibility for their level of engagement and what they choose to discuss.

Workshop Curriculum

1. Producing the sense of a personal storied self

2. Witnessing each other's and our own story making

3. Performing and distributing the porous self: from autonomous being to becoming with others

4. Relational resonance and relational dissonance

5. Detailed guided exercises drawing from participants' lives

6. Narrative and neural creation: attention, intention, memory and repetition

Skills Acquisition will include:

1. How to introduce these special kinds of conversations

2. Understanding the importance of sequencing questions

3. Plotting the effects of relational connections through time and context

4. Creating agency within complex shades of meaning

5. Expanding future stories of preferred relational selves and life

As people learn in different ways, this training will be facilitated through a variety of teaching methods including:

1. Skills building demonstration interviews

2. Guided exercises

3. Small groups as supportive audiences

4. Large group discussions

5. Scenarios from therapy

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 $1200 ($600 Net)!

About the 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

Based on the work of Michael White and David Epston, Narrative Therapy involves ways of understanding the stories of people's lives and the ways of re-authoring their stories collaboratively between the therapist and the people whose lives are being discussed. Key concepts and activities covered and used during sessions include:

1. Externalization of the Problem: Where the Person is not the problem - the problem is the problem

2. Re-authoring identity of the individual

3. working with Maps of Narrative Practices including Landscape of Action and Landscape of Identity

4. Re-membering through developing the idea that identity is shaped by social connections and the "Club of Life"

5. Use of case studies and other practical examples

6. Outsider witnesses in-session practice

7. Definitional Ceremonies

8. Personal Agency discussed

9. Gender issues discussed

10. Addressing trauma situations with narrative therapy

11. Absent but implicit concept discussed and used - enquiring into stories of the self beyond the problem saturated story of the individual

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)!

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

This 2-day essential workshop is designed to provide helping professionals an understanding of the definition of "trauma" in our local Singapore context and how trauma can impact life and health throughout the lifespan. We will discuss the elements of trauma informed care and how this approach will be useful in our practice with seemingly "challenging" and "resistant' clients we see in our community or various counselling spaces. We will also be discussing how we integrate leading and latest treatment methods such as Mindfulness, Somatic and Narrative modalities into a pragmatic approach of practice namely "Release, Regulate and Restore". In addition, participants will focus on using practical strategies  in small group practice case discussions.  

Learning Outcomes

Participants will be able to: 
• Understand complex and developmental trauma and their effects on life and health
• Discuss and reframe the impacts of trauma such as distressing symptoms and behaviours of children and adults as adaptations to trauma
• Learn a practical approach of practice called "Release, Regulate and Restore" to enhance regulation and stabilization for persons with trauma
• Learn how to equip clients with regulation techniques to manage trauma symptoms
• Understand concepts and procedures for enhancing the therapeutic relationship and "co-regulation" as methods for stabilization
• Learn a framework on how to integrate leading trauma informed treatment modalities into participants' existing approaches and practices

Who Should Attend This Course

New or existing social workers, counsellors, staff working in the child, youth and family or mental health sectors especially community based social service agencies (SSA), para-counsellors, and other social service practitioners in a range of sectors (i.e. schools, residential homes).

Course Brief coming soon!

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 $950 ($475)!

About Your Facilitator

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 practices into the workplace and at home, to build greater peace of mind and healthier relationships. to better engage patients within hospitals and polyclinics.

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.

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)!

Course Brief

The idea of a narrative or story as a definitive metaphor to understanding young children in Singapore is crucial. As teachers, counsellors, therapists and psychologists we need an embracing picture for us to understand school-going children. This is the time when their perceptions of the world and themselves are formed. Culture and history form the interpretive lens which shape their lives into adulthood - who they become, who they marry (if they choose marriage) and who they hold dearest and love, are formed at the tender age of seven and thereafter. So we need narrative ideas and therapy to give us an insight into their formative individual and social lives.

Join speakers Prema and Anny, practitioners in Narrative Therapy, as they enfold real life stories of Singaporean students in the cultural melting pot that our society displays.

Check back soon for more details regarding this exciting upcoming course.