Author: dluaz

“Opening Minds, Not Filling Gaps”

Minds are like parachute, if they are closed, they won’t hold you up. Opening up inwardly in yourself, you will find you possess exactly what it is you desire. It is important to relate what is going inside you in order to be what you are and able to govern your own emotional reaction. There is only one person whom you can trust to have your best interests at heart all the time and that is yourself. To quote, “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”. We are typically kind and compassionate to others but unkind and incompassionate to ourselves. Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) @ Workplace is a process of living and not a preparation for future life. You do not know why you are exhausted. You are fighting a war inside your head, every single day. If that is not exhausting, I do not know what it is. I do not think you understand how stressful it is to explain what is going on in your head when you do not even understand it yourself. Have you ever had the experience of being so caught up in thinking about how you should act in a situation that you felt disconnected from the moment or actually missed out on something that happened? Stop struggling and start thriving in the workplace.  Acceptance as part of ACT processes, even if it is painful, only then you can look at what is actually there in front of you, here and now. ACT is a way to assist you, not the way

“Invest in the 21st century skills that your workforce needs”

Employees are often provided with the necessary training to do their work and yet they could not focus and engage in their work, hence affecting the performance outcomes. What sort of skills that are required for improved productivity, employment growth and development in the 21st century? How can work experiences be improved to promote mental health and wellbeing? How to create a Mentally Healthier Workplace? How to use ACT in the workplace to benefit your workforce? Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) Programme in the workplace is an empirically supported technique in group format setting based on principles and practice of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. ACT enables employees to find effective coping skills that will help them build resilience and thrive in the workplace. ACT improves productivity in the workplace through skill development in psychological flexibility. ACT optimises mechanisms for positive behavioral change. ACT is for all levels of workforce in the workplace.

Through this personal message, I hope you will ‘take it to heart’ as the best and most beautiful thing in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the ‘heart’. I hope we can work together in creating the best possible innovative opportunities and positively shaping the workplace as a Mentally Healthier
Workplace.

A heartfelt thank you and appreciation for taking your time to read my personal message and training programmes. Join the ACT Wellbeing Workshops to explore the ACT approaches in an interesting, accessible, interactive and fun way. I look forward to seeing you at 2-day ACT Wellbeing Workshops.

“ Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.”

 

Dr S H Lua
DPhil (Oxford),AFBPsS, FRSA, CSci, CPsychol,
ACT Practitioner & Facilitator , HRDF Certified Trainer
Director of Training and Programme Development

Public Training Programme (PTP) under HRDF SBL-Khas Scheme (100% HRDF Claimable)

Title: An Experiential Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Wellbeing Training in the Workplace
Dates: 13th & 14th December 2017 (Wednesday & Thursday)
Time: 9am – 5pm
Venue: OWG No.10. Jalan Pelukis U1/46, Seksyen U1, Temasya Industrial Park, Glenmarie, 40150 Shah Alam, Selangor
Cost: HRDF Claimable. Call us for details. (CPD Certificate of Attendance, training materials, refreshments and lunch)
Facilitator:
Dr S H Lua DPhil (Oxford), AFBPsS, CSci, FRSA, CPychol
Chartered Pyschologist and ACT Practitioner & Facilitator
HRDF Certified Trainer

Get your ACT together by attending ACT unique training opportunity workshops – here and now. Come and experience of what it is like didactically and experientially to do ACT in a real context, hands-on practice and feedback- “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” ACT is a practical functional contextual approach in helping and guiding you to cultivate psychological flexibility and engagement in the workplace. In these workshops, you will learn and obtain positive and engaging experience. You will gain the ACT skills which give you a sense of vitality, meaning and
fulfillment in the workplace.

This 2-day training will help you:

• Develop psychological flexibility and engagement in the workplace.
• Acquire effective skills to deal and cope with thoughts, feelings and behaviours
• Sustain positive change in fulfilled and meaningful life, personally and professionally.
• Enhance positive mental health, psychological wellbeing and resilience

About the Facilitator:
Dr S H Lua is a Chartered Psychologist accredited by British Psychological Society (BPS) and Associate Fellow, trained at University College London with a doctorate from Oxford University, having more than 30years experience and a Registered Supervisor (RAPPS). She is also currently HRDF Certified Trainer and ACT Practitioner / Facilitator. Dr Lua is a passionate advocate of Psychological Wellbeing Training in the workplace. As an ACT Facilitator, her objective is to ‘open the door for you, but you must walk through it yourself’ for ‘knowing is not enough; you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do’. She believes that ACT needs to be more accessible and available to employers and employees in the workplace as part of occupational health policy and practice.

For registration and further information, please kindly contact Fiona 017 6368970 / 012 9011338

Upcoming 2-day ACT Wellbeing Training Workshops in July 2017

Title: An Experiential Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Wellbeing Training in the Workplace
Dates: 19th & 20th July 2017 (Wednesday & Thursday)
Time: 9am – 5pm
Venue: OWG No.10. Jalan Pelukis U1/46, Seksyen U1, Temasya Industrial Park. Glenmarie, 40150 Shah Alam
Cost: RM2,600.00 per person inclusive of CPD Certificate of Attendance (Continuing Professional Development); training materials; refreshments and lunch.)
Facilitator: Dr S H Lua – DPhil (Oxford), AFBPsS, CSci, FRSA, CPychol, Chartered Pyschologist and ACT Practitioner & Trainer, HRDF Certified Trainer

Get your ACT together by attending ACT unique training opportunity workshops – here and now. Come and experience of what it is like didactically and experientially to do ACT in a real context hands-on practice and feedback- “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

ACT is a practical functional contextual approach in helping and guiding you to cultivate psychological flexibility and engagement in the workplace. In these workshops, you will learn and obtain positive and engaging experience and gain the ACT skills which give you a sense of vitality, meaning, flourish and fulfillment in the workplace.

This 2-day training will help you:

• Develop psychological flexibility and engagement in the workplace.
• Acquire effective skills to deal and cope with thoughts, feelings and behaviours
• Sustain positive change in fulfilled and meaningful life, personally and professionally.
• Enhance positive mental health and psychological wellbeing

About the Facilitator:
Dr S H Lua is a British Psychological Society (BPS) accredited as a Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow, trained at University College London with a doctorate from Oxford University, having more than 30years experience and a Registered Supervisor (RAPPS). She is also currently HRDF Certified Trainer and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) Practitioner.

Dr Lua is a passionate advocate of ACT Psychological Wellbeing Training in the workplace, as the saying goes, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime”. As an ACT trainer, her objective is to ‘open the door for you, but you must walk through it yourself’ for ‘knowing is not enough; you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do’. She believes that ACT needs to be more accessible and available to employers and employees in the workplace as part of occupational health policy and practice.

For registration and further information, please kindly contact:
Catherine (012 6626885)
Fiona (012 9011338)
Dr. Lua (shlua@yahoo.co.uk)
appliedpositivity@yahoo.com