Talks and Training

Super Skills 2025: Mastering Self-Regulation for Kids!

In-person. By Amelia Mak, APHRA

Did you know that how you respond to your child's emotions shapes their brain for life? Many children and parents struggle with self-regulation, but it can be taught. Join us for this workshop to understand your child better and gain invaluable insights into children's emotional regulation. Let's Parent with Intention together!

Learning Objectives:

Expand your understanding of challenging experiences in parenthood
Recognise children's behaviours that communicate underlying needs
Deepen your connection with your child by exploring dysregulation together

What You Can Expect:

Tailored skills-sharing & role-plays using your real-life experiences for personalized learning

Date: 8th March 2025 (Saturday)

Duration: 1.5 hours
Time: 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM

Venue: Heartscape @ Clarke Quay (40 Carpenter Street, #04-01, Singapore 059919)

Cost: $50

Participants: Parents/caregivers/educators with children aged between 3 to 12 years old

Others: Light refreshments included

Amelia Mak is an APHRA registered Educational Psychologist with a decade of working experience with children 5 years old and above. Having worked closely with families and schools of the local and international community, she has tackled a range of issues including behaviour and anger management, anxiety and mood-related issues, learning difficulties and peer conflicts. She has facilitated various social skills groups aimed at building resiliency and coping skills. Having a keen interest in providing parenting support, Amelia specializes in parenting trainings for families.

Register by 1st March 2025 (2359hr) via link button below or email us at admin@heartscapepsychology.com.

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Training Poster

Experiential Process Groups for Clinicians

In-person. Conducted by Shi Min Liew, CGP, SRP

This small group training will provide participants an environment to obtain, expand and retain skills in conducting group therapy. They will learn through participation as a group member and first hand experience of group intervention.

Learning Objectives:

Identifying the group development phases and the leader's role in each phase
Identifying one's role in the group as well as others' roles
Defining and applying concepts of transference, resistance, content vs process and termination
Describing key process interactions in group
Recognizing leader behaviours that facilitate group process
Identifying approaches to address termination

Duration: 14.5 hours
Pre-Group individual session: 30 mins online/ in-person
Group session for 2 full days: 9am-5pm (1-hour lunch break)/ in-person

DATE: TBC (est July 2025; stay tuned for dates!)
LOCATION: Heartscape Psychology, 101 Irrawaddy Road, Royal Square Medical Centre, #16-02
COST: $500 (standard), $450 (students; 1 year post-graduation from
clinical training), GST INCLUSIVE
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: $50 off, register before 12th July 2024

Shi Min Liew is a registered Clinical Psychologist with the Singapore Psychological Society and a Certified Group Psychotherapist with the America Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). A group psychotherapy specialist and member of the Science to Service Taskforce at AGPA, Shi Min established time-limited process group services in local hospitals and organized experiential learning groups for local clinicians. In addition, she is an Associate Faculty at Singapore University of Social Sciences and recently, she had been appointed as an advisor at Calm Collective Asia for their peer support group program.

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Nuts & Bolts of Group Psychotherapy

In-person. Conducted by Shi Min Liew, CGP, SRP

The group is a microcosm of the macro world in which we live in. Therapeutic change during group sessions is a complex process involving intricate interplay
of group interactions and human experiences. This workshop aims to equip participants with fundamental group theories and experiential learning of group psychotherapy.

Learning Objectives:

List important considerations of setting up a group
Identify group leader’s tasks in various stages of group development
Recognize group process and resistance
Enhance psychoeducation and skills-based groups
Identify ethical considerations of group psychotherapy
Gain direct experience of group theories through experiential learning

Duration: 7 hours
Time: 9am-5pm (1-hour lunch break)

Training mode: In-person

DATE: TBC; est Aug 2025
LOCATION: Heartscape Psychology, 101 Irrawaddy Road, Royal Square Medical Centre, #16-02
COST: $350 (standard), $300 (students; 1 year post-graduation from
clinical training), GST INCLUSIVE
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: $50 off, register before 31 May 2025

Shi Min Liew is a registered Clinical Psychologist with the Singapore Psychological Society and a Certified Group Psychotherapist with the America Group Psychotherapy Association (AGPA). A group psychotherapy specialist and member of the Science to Service Taskforce at AGPA, Shi Min established time-limited process group services in local hospitals and organized experiential learning groups for local clinicians. In addition, she is an Associate Faculty at Singapore University of Social Sciences and recently, she had been appointed as an advisor at Calm Collective Asia for their peer support group program.

Register via link button below or email us at admin@heartscapepsychology.com

Training on Dynamic Relational Therapy for Perfectionistic Behavior

Online training, Dr Paul Hewitt

This introductory course provides an overview of perfectionism, a maladaptive personality construct that increases vulnerability to psychiatric, psychological, physical, achievement and relational problems and describes our dynamic-relational treatment of perfectionism for individual or group psychotherapy formats (Hewitt, Flett, & Mikail, 2017). Participants will be introduced to our multidimensional model of perfectionism and its assessment and treatment that has evolved over 30 years of research and clinical work. The emphasis will be on clinical conceptualization, formulation, and treatment of perfectionism.

Learning Objectives

1. Become familiar with the Comprehensive Model of Perfectionism.
2. Be introduced to our model of case formulation used to guide treatment based on attachment, interpersonal, and psychodynamic theories.
3. Be introduced to a comprehensive set of measures used in formulation and measurement of treatment progress and outcome.
4. View and discuss the treatment in individual and group formats to enhance the understanding of the treatment approach.

Date: 4 August 2023 Friday

Time: 09:00 AM – 12:00 PM SGT

Mode: Online, ZOOM

Cost: SGD$90, 3 CE Credits

Dr. Paul L. Hewitt is a Full Professor in the Department of Psychology and Psychotherapy Program, University of British Columbia and a Registered Psychologist in British Columbia. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association and recent winner of the Donald O. Hebb Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology. Dr. Hewitt is recognized for his seminal contributions to the theory and research on the role of perfectionism as a core vulnerability factor in psychopathology, physical health, relationship, and achievement problems. He has published well over 300 research papers, books, and chapters.

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Group Therapy Workshops

Our group specialist and avid educator, Shi Min conducts several workshops on group therapy. Learning in these workshops takes form in both didactic teaching and experiential learning (live demonstration). Participants will be equipped with the relevant knowledge and skills while also observing the group concepts come alive in the here-and-now.

Nuts & Bolts of Group Psychotherapy (1 full day)
Refining Psychoeducation Groups (2 half days)
Enhancing Support Groups (2 half days)

Past participants include masters-level clinical psychologist trainees, psychologists, social workers, art therapists, physicians, occupational therapists, pharmacists and dieticians.

Details of the next workshop run to follow. Stay tuned to this page, or write to us to be included in our workshop mailing list.

If your institution or agency is keen to engage us for a bespoke workshop, we are more than happy to explore it further with you too. Connect with us.

Corporate Talks

We provide public education talks for a wide range of topics on mental wellness and mental health. Some of these topics include:

How to build rewarding romantic relationships
Resilience in the face of stress
Burnout at workplace
Stress management for examinations
Positive Psychology
Mindfulness for busy professionals

Interested to have us speak at your agency or event? Discuss further with us!

Balint Groups

Balint groups are facilitated and structured group discussions of clinical cases to improve and better understand the clinician-client relationship (The American Balint Society, 2016). These discussions elucidate the emotional work that promotes a relational approach to interventions. This continued professional development approach has been found to enhance empathy towards clients and reduce occupational burnout amongst clinicians. Read more here.

Online. Suitable for: Physicians, mental health professionals, healthcare workers.

Drop us an email if you are keen to join our existing Balint group or if your team is keen to participate in a live demonstration.

Basic Counselling Skills Workshop

This 2-day workshop entails understanding mental health conditions, learning to gather relevant information, setting up a safe environment, asking questions in an empathic manner, basic risk assessment and screening tools for mood.

Past participants include administrators, managers, teachers and peer counsellors.

Details of the next workshop run to follow. Stay tuned to this page, or write to us to be included in our workshop mailing list.

If your institution or agency is keen to engage us for a bespoke workshop, we are more than happy to explore it further with you too. Connect with us.