APMC 2022 Workshop - Asia-Pacific Mindfulness Conference

Enhancing Resilience & Wellness

Experiential learning from mindfulness experts around the world

Online Event – July 23 – 24, 2022

Asia-Pacific’s leading mindfulness conference in its 5th edition features a weekend of personal development and education workshops in July.

23 July 2022 | 24 July 2022

This is a weekend of workshops featuring leading mindfulness experts from around the world, including Oxford Mindfulness Centre, Brown Mindfulness Centre, Monash University and our local institutions.

This is Asia-Pacific’s leading mindfulness conference in its 5th edition, co-organised by Brahm Centre, Ministry of Health, Institute of Mental Health, National Health Group, Singhealth-Duke, NUS & NTU Schools of Medicine, Agency for Integrated Care, Health Promotion Board, NCSS and NUS Residential College 4.

This year, the conference takes on a refreshed format featuring a weekend of workshops in July 2022.

Changes are around us and are inevitable in life, creating stress, anxiety and depression for many. At the same time, we are all looking to live happier and healthier lives. Come learn about how mindfulness can help as well as deepen your practice by joining the conference workshops. Each lasting up to 2 hours in length, experts from around the world will lead experiential sessions.

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Each workshop is 1.5 to 2 hours long, on 23-24 Jul 2022 (Singapore time)

Your 1 ticket enables you to access any of the 20 workshops!

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Our Workshops Leaders

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT & EDUCATION

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Dr Christopher Willard

Psychologist & Author
Harvard Medical School

Prof Craig Hassed

Director of Education, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies

Adj. A/Prof Angie Chew

Mindfulness Principal, & CEO Brahm Centre

A/Prof Eric Loucks

Director, Brown Mindfulness Centre & A/Prof of Behavioural And Social Sciences, Brown University

Dr Naras Lapsys

Molecular Geneticist
& Nutritionist

Eluned Gold

Psychotherapist, Author Of Nurturing Parents Course

Ben Chalwin

Head of Training, Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP)

Faiy Rushton

Pathways Manager, Mindfulness in Schools Project(MiSP)

Christalla Alekkou

Associate Trainer, Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP)

Elinor Brown

Project Manager, Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP)

Norman New

Certified Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training Teacher

MINDFULNESS FOR HEALTH & WELLNESS

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Prof Christopher Cheng

Senior Advisor, Singhealth
Former CEO, Sengkang
General Hospital

Prof Chua Hong Choon

Deputy CEO, National
Healthcare Group
CEO, Khoo Teck Puat
Hospital & Yishun Health

A/Prof Judson Brewer

Psychiatrist & Neuroscientist Brown University New York Times Best-selling Author

Prof Willem Kuyken

Prof of Mindfulness and Psychological Science & Director, University Of Oxford Mindfulness Centre

Prof Craig Hassed

Director of Education, Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies

Sharon Salzberg

Loving Kindness Expert & Author

Dr. Jason Ong

Director, Behavioral Sleep Medicine, Nox Health & Adj/A Prof, Nothwestern University

Dr. Olivia Ong

Medical Doctor & Author

Dr. Neo Han Yee

Head of Palliative Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital

Trish Bartley

Mindfulness Trainer & Developer of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer Program

Tina Gibson

Certified Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher Trainer and Mentor

Dr. Geoffrey Tan

Clinician-Scientist & Consultant, Institute of Mental Health

Dr. Lynette Tan

Director of Studies, Residential College 4, National University of Singapore

Dr. Mabel Yap

MBSR Teacher and Director, Ministry of Health

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Prof Christopher Cheng

Senior Advisor, Singhealth
Former CEO, Sengkang
General Hospital

Prof Christopher Cheng graduated from Singapore University in 1982 and obtained his FRCS(Surg) in 1986, and FAMS (Urology) in 1993. He was the first urologist from Singapore to be fellowship certified in Uro-oncology at the Mayo Clinic in 1992.

Prof Cheng was the former Chief Executive Officer of Sengkang General Hospital. He is currently Senior Consultant, Department of Urology, Singapore General Hospital and Sengkang General Hospital. He is also a Senior Consultant in the Division of Surgery & Surgical Oncology at the National Cancer Centre.

In addition, he is the Adjunct Professor to Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore and Clinical Associate Professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. He is also the Visiting Professor of Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

Prof Cheng was the Chairman, Electronic Medical Records, SingHealth from 1994-2008. He was heading the Department of Urology from SGH 2001-2011. He was the Chief Medical Informatics Officer of SGH from 2003-2008. He was the Founding President of the Asia-Pacific Society of Uro-oncology and President of the Singapore Urological Association from Year 2004 to 2006.

Prof Cheng is a Council Member and a Member of the Complaint Panel of Singapore Medical Council. Prof Cheng was awarded the SingHealth GCEO Excellence Award for ‘Outstanding Clinician’ in Year 2011.

Prof Cheng has more than 100 publications in local and international peer reviewed journals on uro-oncology and other subjects.

Workshop Topic:
Mindfulness for Healthcare

Healthcare in many parts of the world was struggling before Covid 19. It is in full crisis mode now, compounded by the prolonged pandemic, economic downturn and war. Staff soldiering on are suffering poor morale. Is there something that we can do about leadership and organizational culture besides addressing the operational and manpower issues? Can mindful leadership help to bring joy no matter how tough the work is? This talk by Prof Christopher Cheng chronicles the adoption of mindfulness at Sengkang General Hospital at its inception and the measures taken during Covid. The lessons learnt about leadership and organizational culture will also be shared.

A/Prof Judson Brewer

Psychiatrist & Neuroscientist
Brown University
New York Times Best-selling Author

Judson Brewer MD PhD is an internationally known thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, having combined over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research therein. He is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Mindfulness Center and associate professor in Behavioral and Social Sciences at the School of Public Health and Psychiatry at the School of Medicine at Brown University, as well as a research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for behaviour change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating, and anxiety. He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI, and source-estimated EEG, and is currently translating these findings into clinical use.

He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, presented to the US President’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, foreign Parliaments, trained US Olympic athletes and coaches, and foreign government ministers and has been featured on 60 minutes, at TED (4th most viewed talk of 2016 with over 16 Million views), in the New York Times, Time magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, Businessweek, NPR, National Geographic, and the BBC among others.

He is the author of The Craving Mind: from cigarettes to smartphones to love, why we get hooked and how we can break bad habits (2017) and Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind (2021).

Workshop Topic:
Breaking Bad Habits, Unwinding Anxiety

Can insights from the science of habit change help alter our views of anxiety and the treatment? Can anxiety and worry be perpetuated like a habit? Anxiety levels are increasing individually and collectively in modern day. Faced with uncertainty, an overabundance of information (and misinformation), among other challenges, our minds struggle to keep up. Our brain’s default to old survival mechanism to help us deal with anxiety can lead to the development of unhealthy coping habits (e.g. stress eating) and ironically feed anxiety as a habit itself.

Drawing on his clinical work, neuroscience research studies and development of next-generation digital therapeutics for habit change, Dr Judson Brewer will discuss the underlying behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of why anxiety and other habits are formed and how we can paradoxically tap into these very processes to uproot them. He will also discuss how we can apply these insights to improving clinical treatments and to our own lives.

Asia-Pacific’s leading mindfulness conference in its 5th edition features a weekend of personal development and education workshops in July.

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Asia-Pacific’s leading mindfulness conference in its 5th edition features a weekend of personal development and education workshops in July.

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Workshop Details

Workshops

Online Via ZOOM

Workshop Schedule

Our Workshops Leaders

click image for bio and workshops synopsis

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Dr Christopher Willard

Prof Craig Hassed

Adj. A/Prof Angie Chew

A/Prof Eric Loucks

Dr Naras Lapsys

Eluned Gold

Ben Chalwin

Faiy Rushton

Elinor Brown

Norman New

Prof Christopher Cheng

Prof Chua Hong Choon

A/Prof Judson Brewer

Prof Willem Kuyken

Sharon Salzberg

Dr. Jason Ong

Dr. Olivia Ong

Dr. Neo Han Yee

Trish Bartley

Tina Gibson

Dr. Geoffrey Tan

Dr. Lynette Tan

Dr. Mabel Yap

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