Ian Percy's workshop on Trauma is postponed because he is unable to travel due to personal health reasons and the coronavirus situation. Currently, we are looking into putting his program online later in the year. We apologize for any inconvenience and will continue to make diligent efforts in bringing you the training courses that have been requested by the mental health community here in Singapore!

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

Narrative Therapy was developed as an approach to counselling in response to the power relations influencing individual’s lives. One of the key concepts of narrative therapy is the dominant problem-saturated story of the person is challenged by externalizing the problem, and through therapy, helps facilitate the development of an alternative narrative. Within this process, a definitional ceremony involving outsider witnesses is used in influencing these narrative shifts. First the individual is given the opportunity to reappear and to retell their story in front of witnesses. Then, the witnesses are encouraged to retell parts of the story that moved them in a special way, reflecting how their own perspectives may have been challenged or changed after hearing the person share. These re-authoring conversations give hope to many, helping to make sense out of pain and loss, reconnecting individuals to themselves and to their community as a whole.

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 $1300 ($650 Net)!

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-behavioral 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 emotion.

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.

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