Course Brief

The enneagram is a very old, fourth century tool that started among the Christian desert fathers and moved to the Muslim sufis, then Jewish communities, and then found its way back to the Christian fold and secular society in the 1980s. An illustrious history!

This is not another personality trait system. It moves deeper and teaches us the energy flow from which traits emanate. It’s also not the popular DISC system which is about a behaviour response system or the Myers Briggs type indicator. It’s much more.

This is probably the first enneagram workshop that’s targeted at the counselling arena. It’s asking the question, “How will this self-understanding of myself and the ability to read my client accurately be useful to the counselling process and achieve desired goals?” Many a time, this is missing in the Counsellor-Counsellee encounter. We can’t seem to understand the client or where he is coming from. Enneagrams provide this missing piece.

Come learn the 9 interrelated faces of the soul and see how it relates to the problems encountered within the client-therapist relationship. This course is introductory in nature and does not assume prior knowledge, only a learning mind and heart.

Course Outline

SEGMENT 1
Contextualise individual one on one use, not for group use, but with clients and you as Counsellor

SEGMENT 2
Enneagram Personality Test
Nine Personality Overview
Types 1 to 4: Reformer- Perfectionist, Helper-Giver, Achiever-Performer, Individualist-Romantic

SEGMENT 3
Types 5-8: Investigator-Observer, Loyalist-Skeptic, Enthusiast-Epicure, Challenger-Protector

SEGMENT 4
Type 9: Peacemaker-Mediator
Identify True Self vs False Self
Wings & Video

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).

STUDENT DISCOUNT: If you are a part-time or full-time student studying counselling or psychology, you can receive 50% off of the regular price of $800 ($400 Net)!

A Course Brief

How can we utilize the teachable, learnable skills of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) to build greater emotional and mental resilience in ourselves and in the youth with whom we work and interact?  What capacities foster the ability to bounce back from disappointments, frustrations, and adversity?

In this participatory, reflective and interactive workshop we will experience and practice foundational EQ skills  intended to build individual and community resilience. We will also examine the literature on resilience and understand how nurturing EQ skills in individuals, families and classrooms contribute to the development of key components that lead to resilience.

As we become more self aware, we make more conscious the anchoring of our unique strengths, gifts and capacities as well as better understanding our challenges (circumstances that require a helping hand or additional energy), we become clearer about our inner selves and our enduring values and standards. The more familiar we are with these enduring reference points, the more reliably and quickly we can return to our original shape and balance.

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)!

A Course Brief

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) skills are readily modeled, nurtured and strengthened in early childhood. Very young babies demonstrate empathy and children, constantly watching and mimicking the actions of the adults in their lives, are uniquely impressionable as they develop social and emotional skills and attitudes that will likely inform the rest of their lives.

Therefore this developmental stage provides educators and parents with a particular privilege and responsibility: to embody and model compassion, understanding, accountability, choice, and integrity.

Join this two-day interactive workshop to better understand foundational EQ skills and concepts and how to develop useful tools in this impressionable age group. Expect to participate, interact and reflect as we practice and refine key developmentally appropriate lessons to build emotional literacy, empathy, consequential thinking, and agency.

This workshop is also well suited for early childhood educators, counsellors, and parents, providing skills and concepts that help the child’s support team communicate more effectively, respectfully holding one another mutually accountable, align actions with values, practices with intentions, providing more ease, joy, sustainability and coherence in bringing forth the overall emotional and social growth of the child.

Course Meeting Dates

This ZOOM course is comprised of two segments: Segment 1 (Day 1 meeting 25 June 2020) & Segment 2 (Days 2-3 meeting 15-16 October).

A Course Brief

The stories people tell themselves and others about traumatic events do affect how they live their present and future lives. While the actual events and their effects can be helpfully explored, a narrative approach also seeks to bring forth and richly describe people’s responses to traumas. Often these responses have been, and still may be, of value to the person. Typically, these response stories are undeveloped or completely invisible.

In bringing together therapeutic skills that focus on story, body, affect and power, this workshop will give participants many practical methods and conversational approaches to assist people in moving beyond trauma. Keeping this in mind, we will consider four therapeutic dimensions:

Storied:

• Identify and name resistance to trauma events: thoughts, feelings or actions taken that reduced the negative effects at the time and/or later

• Assist people in telling unsaid stories: noticing details, asking helpful questions, and bringing forth a valued sense of self in spite of the effects of trauma

Embodied:

• Befriending bodied distress and becoming familiar with beneficial bodied sensations

Affect:

• Using mindfulness for strong adverse emotions and attending to and increasing desirable emotions

Power:

• Identifying and unpacking the social contexts and relations of power in traumatic incidents

We will also think about how we might bring these constructive responses to trauma, the actual incident/s, and the effects of trauma, into a fuller storied life.

This practical and interactive workshop will explore the importance of asking different kinds of questions while creating a felt-sense of compassion. Participants will be introduced to a variety of ways of working with people including some mindfulness and somatic awareness skills as complementary to narrative question-asking. Brief and extended examples from participant’s clinical work will also help illustrate narrative approaches.

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)!

What Is Narrative Therapy?

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 Session 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’ • Use of Case Studies and Other Practical Examples • Outsider Witnesses • Definitional Ceremonies • Personal Agency • Gender Issues • Addressing Trauma with Narrative Therapy • Absent and Implicit: Enquiring Into Stories of Self Beyond the Problem Saturated Story

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)!

A Course Brief

This level 2 Narrative Therapy (Part 2) course with Carolyn Markey takes your existing knowledge of NT to a deeper level, providing a holistic framework reviewing theory, and using transcripts, video and live stop-start interviews to give practical help. Topics to be covered include: extending externalizing conversations; extending re-authoring conversations from problem to preferred stories; delving deeper into the absent but implicit concept; responding to trauma; scaffolding conversations; stop-start interview practice; and outsider witness practices.

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)!

A Course Brief

Carolyn Markey addresses the difficult areas of grief and loss with practical helps based on Narrative Therapy concepts. Highlights include:

1. Discussing traditional ideas of grief and loss including the conventional assumptions of Grief Psychology contrasted with the ideas that shape Narrative Practices in addressing grief

2. Looking at how death is an end to a life but not necessarily a relationship - and re-membering a person with material from Barbara Myerhoff

3. Categories of Enquiry and group work will also be used in practice groups

4. Addressing cultural messages about loss and death will be discussed and how they interact with persons experiencing grief

5. Delving into the use of re-membering conversational maps, the absent but implicit, definitional ceremonies with outsider-witness practices - all used and practiced within small groups