We offer a series of mental resilience programmes to develop individuals, families and organizations to thrive with mental resilience.
Burnout is no respecter of age, social-economic status, gender etc. Left unmanaged, it might lead to mental health challenges and greatly affect individuals and their loved ones. The Singapore Mental Health Study 2016 found that 1 in 7 people in Singapore experienced mental health challenges.
Emmaus acts as a multiplier to help individuals and organizations thrive by building mental resilience and wellness and preventing and overcoming burnout through:
(a) Awareness – “From Stress to Zest” Talk
(In-Person/Virtual Sessions are available) –
Are current circumstances stressing you out? How do we thrive and be mentally resilient in the new normal of COVID-19?
Learn the art and science of being mentally resilient and go away with practical handles on how to deal with stress and prevent burnout.
From Stress to Zest has been successfully ran in several organizations (including manufacturing, legal, travel, technological, financial, educational, healthcare and non-profit institutions). To date, the well-received talk* has been attended by more than 1000 individuals.
What is stress? Is the same as burnout?
Do I or my loved one have burnout?
How does one begin to take steps to prevent or overcome burnout?
Companies may also participate in the “Grow It Forward” programme and bring this talk to another non-profit to help them prevent burnout.
Hear from James, the Lead Thrive-Synergist of a local social enterprise on how to grow and thrive with the 5S mental resilience building strategies.
There is also the online version of the “From Stress to Zest” talk and you can find out more about it here.
Very informative and an eye-opening session. The presentation made it crystal clear that stress and burnout are two different things. Glad I will be able to address this and suggest a solution too. Thank you.
I find the strategies in handling burnout good handles to take away and reflect on. I like the way you link it with the living Word & applications to our life. Praise the Lord! Thank you, James.
The session was informative, easy to understand, practical and resourceful. Much needed for our overstretched and very stressed society.
Raymond
The course is very informative, I learn the ICED-T method to assess if one is burned out, the importance of being aware of it- how it affect the people around us , and the practical ways (5S) to deal with burnout.
I really like this (workshop) because of how approachable the presenter is and how he presented the information in a very interesting manner like the different models to help us remember the concepts. Will definitely want to learn more!
The sharing of personal experiences by the trainer was authentic and relevant.
Tristan
I learnt several ways to manage stress better and prevent burnout....and that we will get better and better at it when we keep trying...and the beautiful reminder that God is for us always 🙂
Genevieve
James knows what he's talking about. Lots of variety in the session, and some practical tips
George
Authentic, personal, useful takeaway for life application...
Cindy
Thank you for the helpful acronym in looking out signs of burnout 🙂 Appreciate the suggested coping strategies, practical and seems doable! Lot's of valuable teachings packed into a tight hour!
Elaine
James has real experiences and in turn real tips for coping and/or preventing burnouts, I'll be sharing this with a friend who is going through a challenging time too!
I like the simplified pointers and acronyms eg ICED-T and 4S because it frames things in a more organized way compared to being bombarded with information
Lynn
It was a good lunchtime session that helped me understand and learn about signs to look out for myself or rather to prevent it from happening. Thank you James for the session!
Frances Ng
Talk enables me to understand more about burnout and the effects of it. It also helps me to understand the causes of it and what may contribute to it in my life.
Real conversations and statistics about the state of Singaporeans in terms of work, mental health, burnt out and sleep deprivation. Thought-provoking and much-needed conversations for workplaces to start having regarding real work-life thriving and burnout/mental health issues.
Easy to understand presentation, with good pedagogies in delivering content. The whole workshop is interesting because of personal sharing of speaker. It gives audience hope that burnout can be prevented, identified, and managed.
Enjoyed the personal sharing as well as the articles on what burnout looked like in the general population across the globe. Thankful also for the PRISM model handout that provides handles on something we can start working on.
The models sum up burn out and self-care in a very simple manner; a lot of times we do know something is wrong but we don't do anything to help ourselves. They are good reminders for especially for social service professionals.
There was good insight on what burnout is and how it affects the different aspects of our lives, and that burn out is not only limited to working population.
James was an engaging speaker who shared openly about his own struggles in the past. He also gave practical yet detailed strategies in managing burnout.
(It provided a good) opportunity for like-minded people to share and learn about their struggling experiences.
Andrew Ong
Cafe Wowee
(It helped us to) increase self-awareness to better manage ourselves and the environment we are in.
Adrian
Cafe Wowee
Good presentation done and thorough explanation and exploration of topic.
Kelsen Koh
The speaker presented his programme in a clear yet humourous manner.
Edwin
The breakout sessions were excellent. Participants chatted freely as the dialogues provided them with a chance to get in touch with their inner selves.
Laetitia
I now understand more about burnout and how we need to have more conversations about it, so that all of us can be healthy physically and mentally.
Xue Ting
Very informative materials from the speaker. The materials and his sharing of his experience with burnout help us better relate to and understand the content.
Ken
Organisational mental well-being is so important and today's session is a great step in breaking the stigma of mental illness.
Bryan
Practical, engaging and absolutely necessary for survival in today's environment.
Alvin Tan
Very eye-opening session.
Mahendra Soni
Definitely not to be missed if you know someone burning out or if you feel like you are burning out. Invite a friend along!
Cheryl Yeo
It has been a fun night of learning and reflecting. Did not regret signing up for the event!
Tan Wenkai
Its absolutely well designed and it addresses the very important aspects (of burnout). Real life sharing. Very practical and essential for the world we live in now.
Evelyn Sim
Café Wowee (Working Optimally Without Encountering Exhaustion) is an interactive and immersive session for those keen to “disrupt” status quo, crack the code of beating burnout and thrive at work and in life. It is more than a mere stress management workshop and focuses on building personal resilience.
Regardless where one works; in the office as an employee, in a business as an entrepreneur, at home as a homemaker or in the community as a volunteer, Cafe Wowee believes everyone has potential and that they can thrive for good in their roles.
Participants can expect to:
confront myths that prevent one from thriving in their mental well-being
learn what burnout and their symptoms are
understand the effects of burnout on oneself and our life
How do we grow the well-being and resilience of everyone on my team?
Café Wowee (Working Optimally Without Encountering Exhaustion) Team Edition is an interactive 2-session team-based “hackathon-style” learning event about mental resilience.
This is definitely more than a mere stress management workshop, as it adopts a holistic approach in building personal and organizational resilience.
Key Takeaways:
Engage in learning conversations to:
confront myths about stress, learn about burnout, its symptoms and effects
discover practical handles on mental resilience and relational resilience
develop a personal strategy plan for your well-being
gain insights into team resilience factors, pulse check your team’s stress level, co-create ways to grow team resilience
A special feature of the café is how it provides a safe and unthreatening platform for learning dialogues that may go on to encourage the necessary and ongoing conversations about burnout and mental well-being.
There is also the online version for Cafe Wowee and Cafe Wowee (Team Edition). Begin the conversation with us.
Companies may also participate in the “Grow It Forward” programme and bring this workshop to another non-profit to help them prevent burnout.
We all want to work, love, grow, succeed and have meaning and joy in our lives. Go on a life-changing personal journey with us, as we uncover the keys to living a thriving life. This is a one-day Christian Education workshop which provides a platform to review some critical questions needed to live a thriving life. Topics covered would include:
What is Burnout and why does it happen?
What does a thriving life look like?
How to have work-life harmony?
How to build personal resilience?
How to thrive in relationships?
How to know our priorities and find meaning and purpose in our work? Fuel up, not burn out.Join our Events
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(e) Transformation – Mental Resilience Coaching
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.”
~ The Bible (Ecclesiastes 4:9, ESV)
You don’t have to journey alone. Have one of our mental resilience architects to join you in your journey to build your mental resilience and/or to thrive over burnout,
We offer a series of strategic volunteer partnerships programmes to grow impact and help communities thrive.
(a) “Walk in Our Shoes” Challenge
Modelled after the Poverty Challenge, the simulation is a specially designed experiential activity to help those going through the activity to better understand families in need and the various challenges they may face. It aims to help participants:
gain awareness and appreciation of the various social and family issues that families in need may face,
recognise how every individual and family have varying levels of resources, and
understand the impact the issues faced by each individual family members and the impact it may have on the whole family unit,
realize that individual family members have resources they can bring to overcome family issues, and
understand that resources a family may have goes beyond financial resources but includes individual coping capabilities, relational, time etc.
This short session has been a eye opener to the various challenges we faced in life n avenues where we can seek help
Through their scenario play, it emulates the real world out there eg when pandemic strikes, inflation sets in, etc we have to adjust & to adapt and seize every opportunity to make things better for us, families and community.
The session let’s us gain insight to some daily challenges faced by family with needs. The game play simulates the mindset these families may face especially during this tough economic situation.
The poverty simulation was useful to place us in the shoes of people's lives that we would have otherwise never encountered.
Rachel Koh
Well prepared, well facilitated. Balance of seriousness and fun. Lots of sincerity.
Mervin Yeo
I like the real life examples shared which give me a brief idea of what those in need are facing.
Nick Wu
Interactive and fun. Learn social concerns and concepts in an enlightening and impactful way through play.
Cheryl
(b) 5 Habits of Truly Effective Helpers
(In-Person/Virtual Sessions are available)
We provide training services to help social service volunteers be effective helpers. This 2 half-day training covers the 5 essential habits of:
Understanding Our Service Users In this segment, participants will gain insights into human needs, social issues and how to make sense of the challenges faced by their service users.
Helping with many hands In this segment, participants will engage in experiential activities as well seminar-style learning as they learn about the right perspectives of helping effectively and how their roles contribute to the larger picture of creating impact for the service users, in active collaboration with the other helping professionals in the sector.
Knowing thy self as a helper In this segment, participants will engage in learning through experiential activities, videos, seminars and group work to appreciate the need for self-awareness, learn handles for effective self-management as well as build their knowledge and skills in being a culturally competent helper.
Employing effective helping skills In this segment, participants will learn effective fundamental helping skills and critically reflect on the importance of the ethics of volunteering (as highlighted in the organization’s Code of Conduct). Topics covered include active listening, coaching and helping ethics and these explored through seminar-style learning, role plays and experiential group work.
Going the distance in Helping In this segment, participants will learn to appreciate the need for self-care and learn skills to help them continue creating impact as an effective volunteer, prevent burnout and thrive in all aspects of their lives.
Keen to chat more about how we can journey with you to help build your volunteers’ capabilities? Contact us today.
(c) Facilitating Impact through Transformative Helping Interactions
(In-Person/Virtual Sessions are available)
The learning event was very practical... The (coaching) model is a good guide to helping self and coaching others.
James is clear and effective in his presentation. Also creative and interactive in his way of engaging his participants despite the challenges and constraints of zoom training.
James was able to engage the participants through the Poll, Role-Play, Breakup session discussion etc. He is also very generous to share with us some online resources. The role-play allows us to apply what we have learnt.
Volunteers are at the forefront of bringing positive impact as they work alongside helping professionals. In this customized workshop, we will equip volunteers with the perspectives, knowledge and skills in beginning to bring about positive impact through their helping interactions with service users. Skills learned are also highly transferrable to the volunteers’ other spheres of life as they interact with their loved ones, friends, colleagues and others.
Employing a myriad of training methodology to ensure maximum learning experience, the workshop will cover topics such as:
Fundamentals of a Transformative Helping Conversation
Attending & Active Listening Skills
Models for Transformative Helping Conversations
Helping Models
Basic Coaching
Keen to chat more about how we can journey with you to help build your volunteers’ capabilities? Contact us today.
(d) Strategic Volunteer Partnerships Leadership Development Programme
(In-Person/Virtual Sessions are available)
This programme is a “hands-on” and comprehensive capacity building and leadership development programme for volunteer partnerships professionals from Social Purpose Entities (SPEs). It presents the practitioners with an opportunity to learn and be equipped with key principles, perspectives and skills to grow their organization’s volunteer programme, which in turn will grow the organization’s effectiveness and impact.
Overall it's good. Really in-depth explanation about each topic and (there were also) opportunities to network and exchange ideas with other volunteer managers.
The networking session and learning from the sharing with all..
Having support networks (of people who are doing same roles) & role playing was effective!
… hands on practice on the concepts
… the discussion, networking and sharing of ideas and feedback.
Very interactive and engaging
Systematic approach to develop VM (Volunteer Managers); keeps me grounded and focused
Structured and comprehensive.
It is very practical and relevant to our daily day to day operations and these topics help to improve the process and efficiency of overall volunteer management.
… all topics that have been covered… are very interesting and useful for my work knowledge and understanding the depth of volunteer management.
Thoroughness and interactive learning
Evidence/practice-based, lots of examples to explain his points, clear helpful framework, use of activities to reinforce and put across learning points.
James has a wealth of experience in this area on volunteer programmes and he is able to give his inputs and suggestions in a succinct manner which are practical and can be helpful!
The workshop was comprehensive in helping us think through key areas of volunteer management. Engaging, great pace and mix of activities to learn as a team! Thank you Emmaus Strategies for helping us improve the way we partner with our volunteers.
James delivers a professional and convincing case for volunteer management and the strategies for it. He provides helpful perspectives and tools for managers and focuses on real outcomes. The activities and ideas are relevant and can be immediately applied. Definitely a go-to consultant! 5 stars.
We were inspired to pause and think out of the box for Volunteer Management for social enterprises . It was a (course that had a good) combination of HR / Marketing / Strategy that we usually learn in corporates but might miss our for chariities .. which we should not.
It was not monotonous. There were discussions, games, role-plays, videos etc
Structured, informative and interactive.
Interactive yet not intimidating 🙂 Great job!
The course structure and framework are well-planned and covered at a pace I can follow.
Keen to chat more about how we can capacity build your staff for effective volunteer partnerships? Contact us today.
(e) Strategic Volunteer Partnerships for Impact
(In-Person/Virtual Sessions are available)
“Strategic Volunteer Partnerships for Impact” is a primer course on the basics of setting up and to begin to develop an effective volunteer programme. It is the lite version of the Strategic Volunteer Partnerships Leadership Development Programme. It provides course participants with the opportunity to explore the ways volunteers can be partnered for maximum impact while also providing the framework, perspectives and skills to effectively plan, attract, recruit, onboard, engage and retain them.
Evidence/practice-based, lots of examples to explain his points, clear helpful framework, use of activities to reinforce and put across learning points.
James has a wealth of experience in this area on volunteer programmes and he is able to give his inputs and suggestions in a succinct manner which are practical and can be helpful!
The workshop was comprehensive in helping us think through key areas of volunteer management. Engaging, great pace and mix of activities to learn as a team! Thank you Emmaus Strategies for helping us improve the way we partner with our volunteers.
James delivers a professional and convincing case for volunteer management and the strategies for it. He provides helpful perspectives and tools for managers and focuses on real outcomes. The activities and ideas are relevant and can be immediately applied. Definitely a go-to consultant! 5 stars.
We were inspired to pause and think out of the box for Volunteer Management for social enterprises . It was a (course that had a good) combination of HR / Marketing / Strategy that we usually learn in corporates but might miss our for chariities .. which we should not.
It was not monotonous. There were discussions, games, role-plays, videos etc
Structured, informative and interactive.
Interactive yet not intimidating 🙂 Great job!
The course structure and framework are well-planned and covered at a pace I can follow.
Learners can expect to learn the foundational skills with contextualized case studies relevant to their practice setting in:
The Case for Volunteer Partnerships
Volunteer Management Framework
Volunteerism Trends and Engagement
Role Design
Recruitment & Marketing
Risk Management
Volunteer Retention
(f) “Uncovering the Impact Potential of Your Volunteer Programme” Workshop
(In-Person/Virtual Sessions are available)
How do you make sense of impact assessment and begin to uncover your volunteer programmes’ impact? Confidently conduct an effective impact assessment as you:
Learn impact assessment fundamentals to develop strategic volunteer partnerships.
Learn how to design outcomes and indicators of impact.
Practice how to analyze and report impact data.
Get a copy of the Volunteer Partnerships Impact Assessment Toolkit with its resources and sample outcome bank.
Concise yet comprehensive coverage of essential techniques for a robust impact assessment. Especially commendable, given need to move training online within such a short timeframe! Was engaged throughout.
This is such an innovative way of holding workshops digitally and online! Kudos to James for coming up with such a great alternative and being adaptable in the face of uncertain condition that we have here right now in Singapore due to COVID-19. I find it very interactive, especially the (groupwork) portion where we can share our ideas using digital post-its. Great job, James!
The session gave me a different perspective for measuring the impact of volunteerism in an organisation. Instead of just looking at the outcome which usually relates to quantifying results, impact indicators such as quality results are equally important.
If you would like to learn more to prevent or overcome burnout,
you might wish to join our Mental Resilience Programme Join our Mental Well-Being Programme
