Shan You Professional Training
With a focus on building and developing capabilities for the social service and healthcare sectors, we organise training programs, for which practicing counsellors, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers and other mental health workers have indicated as their professional needs.
We have taken the lead in providing training programmes in evidence-based approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and Motivational Interviewing (MI).
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Instead of focusing on the elimination of difficult feelings, ACT guides people in looking at what life brings them in an undistorted manner and to take actions that are guided by their personal values.
HOW DOES ACT WORK?
- It invites people to calmly acknowledge and allow unpleasant feelings without unhelpful resistance to them
It frees people from overreactions to unpleasant feelings or behaviours intended to avoid those feelings
ACT’s therapeutic effect is a positive spiral, where feeling better leads to a greater grasp of actions that people hold as deeply meaningful and hence their clear and determined intentions for attaining them.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Applying mindfulness with CBT practices
Participants are taught a mindfulness-based decentering technique where one focuses on becoming aware of all incoming thoughts and feelings and accepting them but not reacting to them.
How does the decentering technique help?
It assists individuals to disengage from self-criticism, rumination, and dysphoric moods that can arise when people reacting to negative thinking patterns.
Motivational Interviewing (MI)
MI is a versatile framework that is collaborative but also structured for the purpose of eliciting behaviour change by helping clients explore and resolve their ambivalence, that is, conflicted thoughts and feelings about change.
How does MI work?
Compared with non-directive psychotherapy, MI is more focused and goal-directed. The practitioner applies systematic skills in guiding clients to reduce or resolve their mixed intentions or emotions about whether or not to take certain actions which can be anything from considering consuming less sugar in order to manage one’s own diabetes to making self-actualizing decisions in one’s own life.
In conjunction with the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), Shan You offers two different workshops and also coaching sessions which:
- Provides progressively more sophisticated levels of skill mastery and coaching.
- Prepares suitable candidates to become MINT trainers.
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Our programmes are designed to help you develop the competencies and skills needed for a rewarding career and life.