Training & Events

Research demonstrates that self compassion is strongly associated with emotional wellbeing, maintenance of healthy habits such as diet and exercise, and satisfying personal relationships. It has also been shown to reduce anxiety, depression, stress and burnout. In this introductory session, we will be exploring how Mindful Self-Compassion practice can help us live with more kindness, self-appreciation, and resilience towards life's challenges.

Our speaker: Dr. Tanya Tierney
Tanya is a British educator who has lived in Singapore since 2012. With a background in student wellbeing and teaching communication skills and compassion to medical students, Tanya has expanded her teaching interests to include mindfulness and self-compassion. Through her own practice, she has developed strategies to attend to her own wellbeing and thus be more present for her students. She has taught mindfulness to students, educators, clinicians and members of the public and has completed her teacher training for MSC (Center for Mindful Self-Compassion) and MBSR (UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness/SMU).

Like physical agility, emotional agility is important for overall health, well-being, and successful relationships at school and at work. In this workshop, students will learn how to navigate and achieve emotional agility with themselves in a courageous, curious and compassionate way in everyday life.

Registration closes on 20 February 2023, Monday at 12pm

Today's fundamental questions of wealth and poverty and the ongoing tectonic changes in the world require a radically new, integrative mindset and heightened strategic awareness. We cannot tackle the challenges we face individually and as humankind unless we drastically improve our decision-making and leadership capabilities. Mindfulness-based Strategic Awareness Training - MBSAT is designed to strengthen and systematically cultivate these abilities. It is based on the latest findings in neuroscience and moulded into a format that allows active people to include the training practices in their daily lives. The lecture will provide an introduction to the MBSAT training methodology and its neuroscientific foundations and let participants experience a fresh approach to practice mindfulness for improving decision-making.

Closing date for registration: 1 February 2023

A mindfulness-based approach to stress reduction emphasizes the helpful role that awareness and openness can play in facing stressors, and ultimately, leading a richer life. Rather than trying to make stressors disappear from life, or controlling them entirely, we will try to learn how to become more aware of the stressors in our lives and how they impact us. Rather than rejecting or suppressing challenges in our life, we will try to investigate them openly. With kindness and self-compassion we will attempt to accept reality as it is in the here-and-now. In this well-researched MBSR course, on the basis of such openness and acceptance, and with the help of formal and informal mindfulness practices, we can then make wiser choices and develop thinking styles, behaviors and habits that are conducive to stress reduction and prevention, and to leading life more fully.

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HYC is turning 3, and have planned two fun-filled days of celebrations, including a "What Truly Matters" game session with Happiness Initiative.

Click here for more information about the event.