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Mindfulness-based Strategic Awareness

for Decision Making and Leadership

Overview
Strategic awareness means an open, receptive and generative mind, free from the preconceptions and cognitive distortions that so often cloud our judgment, feelings, and behaviours. It is a lucid perception to reach wise and satisfying decisions in both professional and private life that sustain wellbeing for self and others around us.

Specially designed to enhance decision making for leaders and any person aspiring skillful decision-making to ensure sustainable wellbeing, this 2-day course aims to cultivate in participants an open, receptive and generative mind, free from the preconceptions and cognitive distortions that cloud judgement and behaviours.

It is a training programme especially designed for the workplace and individuals confronting the challenges of an active life. As such it addresses specifically a non-clinical population.

Learning Objectives

At the end of the 2-day course, participants will be able to

• gain practical tools that can considerably increase your personal wellbeing and are most helpful in the daily tribulations of the workplace
• learn the MBSAT (Mindfulness-based Strategic Awareness Training) protocol through practical exercises
• learn to generate mental clarity and use practical tools that can increase personal well-being and improve the quality of their decision making

Target Audience: MOE Officers, School Leaders Key Personnel and Senior Teachers

Trainer: Dr Juan Humberto Young

Dr Juan Humberto Young has many years of professional and business experience in leading positions in banking and various industries. He grounds his work in lifelong academic education ranging from Finance and Risk Management to Positive Psychology and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy at distinguished universities, becoming an authentic "scholar practitioner". He has also extensive teaching experience in corporate development programmes and at universities, currently as Academic Director of the Executive Master in Positive Leadership and Strategy at IE University, Madrid. He designed the curriculum integrating human development and management based on positive approaches. He is also Academic Director of the newly launched teacher-training programme of Mindfulness-based Strategic Awareness (MBSAT-TT).

Registration Information

Topic: Mindfulness-based Strategic Awareness for Decision Making and Leadership
Presenter: Dr Juan Humberto Young
Date: 27 to 28 June 2019 (2 day workshop)
Fee: SGD2140.00* (as low as SGD242.00* after maximum funding)
Venue: Singapore Management University

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For enquiries, please contact Josephine Teo at 6828 0591 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Who Should Attend?
MOE Officers, School Leaders, Key Personnel and Senior Teachers

Assessment
Course assessment will be based on classroom exercises and presentation.

In-House Training
If your school or organisation is interested to organise an in-house training on any of the Design Thinking topics below, the workshop will require a minimum of 10 participants and SkillsFuture Singapore funding is applicable for the in-house training. Please do not hesitate to contact Joseph Loy at email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or tel: 6363 0330 for further discussion.

Fees and Funding

* includes 7% GST

** Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credit to offset respective course fees
¹ Up to 90% course fee funding for employees of SMEs under Enhanced Training Support for SMEs ("ETSS")
² Up to 90% course fee funding under SkillsFuture Mid-Career Enhanced Subsidy ("MCES")
³ Up to 95% course fee funding under Workfare Training Support Scheme ("WTS")

Funding Incentives

1. SkillsFuture Series

Singapore Citizens or Singapore Permanent Residents are eligible for 70% course fee funding (excluding GST) for successful enrolment into approved courses under the Programme. This funding is applicable to both individual and company sponsored participants.

Singapore Citizens aged 40 and above will enjoy 90% course fee funding (excluding GST).

2. SkillsFuture Credit**

Singapore Citizens aged 25 and above may use their SkillsFuture Credits (up to S$500) to pay for the course fees. The credits may be used on top of existing course fee funding.

This is only applicable to self-sponsored participants. Applications via MySkillsFuture.sg must be made within 60 days before course commencement. Please click here for the user guide on how to submit your claim.

3. Absentee Payroll

Companies who sponsor their employees for the course may apply for Absentee Payroll via the SkillsConnect system. For more information, please visit SkillsConnect.

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