Seed of Lives

Talking about supporting youth through mentoring. Thanks to MENDAKI Club, ( a community of Malay/Muslim young professionals and students who are engaged in general affairs concerning the community, Singapore and the world.) I recently designed and facilitated a half day workshop - "Play2 Resilience" for teenagers and their mentors using Lego Serious Play and Enneagram.
Through sharing their strengths through LSP, participants learn how to confidently articulate what they are good at. The online Enneagram Personality Assessment Test and activities that followed offered them insights on their mental model and helped them identify areas of growth.

The city of Malacca is rich in both its history and food culture. One famous dish is called, "luk-Luk" where various ingredients are dipped into thick peanut gravy. This was what we had during our last Enneagram Connections workshop at Malacca over the last weekend.
A few interesting facts about this 7th run of the part 1 of The Enneagram Connections :
1) We had two young adults who came all the way from Batam, Indonesia.
2) Enneagram Asia partnered with TzuChi Melaka in running this workshop.
3) The youngest participant was a 14 year old girl ! She could relate with her Enneagram Personality when we touched on the Type 5 (The Investigator). She could also resonate to how she so automatically used her Defense Mechanism of "Isolation" to block off her feelings due to her experiences of her interactions with people around her.
Thanks to TzuChi Melaka Vuthy Taing for making this happen. See you again in July at Kuala Lumpur for the 8th run .

Conducted a workshop for 300 secondary 3 students at River Valley High School last week. The topic was, "Play2 Success - Managing Emotions". One lovely student presented me with a drawing. I asked her where she saw the three strands of hair? All burst into laughter.
We taught the students effective tools to be more self-aware of their strong emotions and simple strategies to manage it. The four messages for our future leaders (these students) are:
1) Our emotions serve a purpose.
2) There is no right/wrong emotions. Only useful or not so useful emotions.
3) Learn to articulate our strong emotions and seek support.
4) Practice body awareness and breathing exercise to better manage our strong emotions.
Also want to thank the teachers and leaders at RVHS for their dedication and compassion.

Last week, we shared with about 100 undergraduate students from Universitas International Batam, Indonesia on the topic of how understanding and working on ourselves (Enneagram) can help us become a more self-aware and grounded person. And as a result, we are in a better position to empathize and work through challenges in our love relationships. Several great questions were posted and below are three take aways from this workshop.
1) In a love relationship, there is no "best" mix of Enneagram types. Focus on being aware of our types and working on ourselves is more important than a "mix and match" approach.
2) Enneagram helps us understand why people are so unlike us. 3) 3) It also show us how we can work towards meeting our partners at mid-point. Thanks to all wonderful participants.

Ever wonder how an organization takes care of the productivity and well being of its employees ?

Thanks to my friend , Professor Roy for answering the above questions of mine by taking me for a tour at Google's APAC office in Singapore.

A dedicated work free zone where people don't work , just focus on being present.

Friends asked how come we have some many young adults participants in "The Enneagram Connections" program we conduct in Malaysia?

Answer: Parents attend this program with their teenage/young adult children in order to understand them for who they really are.

Thanks to Vuthy Taing and many others who made the third run of the first part of "The Enneagram Connections" a reality.

Always enjoyed the warmth, generosity and kindness of participants from Malaysia. See you all on the 2-3 Nov for part three in KL.

Healing relationship starts with knowing ourselves. And The Enneagram is one great tool to deep dive into our unconscious patterns of thinking, feelings and reactivity in lives.
Change doesn't come after attending "The Enneagram Connections" program. That is why we have group/one on one coaching sessions to support participants internalize and apply what they have learned in their daily lives.
See the sharing by one of our participants, Vanessa who is only in her early twenties.

Just launched a podcast called, "Healing Relationships" to support people and our community of Enneagram practitioners to navigate and address their pain points in building Harmonious, Joyful & Meaningful relationships that matters to them. Click on the link below to listen to the first episode. Enjoy ! Vuthy TaingYvonne MakLanny WidjajaHoo Swee MinGrace Chia FuEnEve Phua Ee HweeMin NgChia Ming Huei

Healing Relationships podcast - Ep1 - "Why can't you see my point of view!? " It can be frustrating that people that matters to us sometimes doesn't seems to understand us or see our point of view. Why is this so? And what can we do ab...

We had 15 participants during the The part 1 of The Enneagram Connections program at Kuala Lumpur in July this year. Last month, we had 27 participants for the second run of the same program in Malaysia. No...this is not a number game. The Enneagram Connections is a community of Enneagram Practitioners who are committed to be more aware of themselves, who are willing to do Enneagram Inner developmental work to become a better version of themselves. Thanks Vuthy Taing Su-Yin YeohHoay YeeLeow Hoay HoayGrace Chia FuEnHoo Swee MinYvonne MakMille Tham and many others who continues to inspire us in this journey!

Thanks to Vuthy Taing Yvonne Mak and many others who helped to spread the work of The Enneagram Connections. Enneagram Spectrum Community. Our second run of Part 1 of The Enneagram Connections workshop this weekended is being over subscribed. We now have 21 participants! Part 2 will be held in September , see you all soon !