Drona Dewi, a wellness trainer from a biotechnology background has more than 10 years of experience in the research and development industry specifically on diabetes care and lifestyle modification focusing on healthy mindset. This experience has brought her to understand the significance of physical and mental well-being. So she pursued becoming a certified mental health first aid instructor and a wellness fashion image consultant focusing on sustainable living. As a mental health first responder, she understands factors that can affect wellbeing, spot triggers and signs of mental health issues, and provide support to people in distress. She is part of the Special Projects Committee in NAWEM (National Association of Women Entrepreneurs Malaysia) where she supports the NGO with training and talks on wellness and mental health.

In recent times, Drona has become more aware of ensuring balanced-lifestyle through creating presence within the community and since then she has been creating awareness in developing physical presence for business owners where she grooms them on an inner and outer aspect making them more presentable at business levels.
She also uses her knowledge in Neurolinguistic to nurture not only business owners but their respective products to establishing a marketing pattern. In fact, Drona is passionate about creating awareness of the importance of lifestyle balance through science communication. She is also a content creator on mental health related topics. She is a member of World Mental Health Federation.
In the last five years, she has ventured into wellness; art of living rightfully to improve both inner health and outer beauty. She uses holistic approaches backed by science. She has spoken on many international platforms in which she also co-written a book – Co-Authored a bestselling anthology book: Life is a gift – loving you. And was interviewed in Voice of America Empowerment Radio talk show couple of times now.

Medical Doctor and a qualified licensed Counsellor with the Board of Counsellor’s Malaysia. A certified HRD Corporation trainer.

She has extensive experience in the healthcare sector primarily working with patients with mental health conditions in areas of depression, anxiety and stress. She is a strong advocate for mental health wellness and has conducted various training, seminars and psycho-education programs in rehabilitation counselling, cognitive behavior therapy using expressive art and awareness on non-communicable diseases. She provides counselling session for individuals.

Iffah Suraya graduated with a Master’s in Professional Counseling from the University of Malaya. Throughout the years, various relevant pursuits she has been involved in include a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Boston University, being a member of MIASA’s crisis team, a trainee counselor with Querencia Psychological and Consulting Services (now Re:Mind Psychology), writing on mental health topics, research assistant stints, and presenting webinars and facilitating workshops to raise awareness.

Her approach to counseling could be described as one that has the sense of self (object relations) in mind, with a focus on providing an understanding of how one’s sense of self (self-esteem) has been affected by psychological maltreatment; toxic shame; prolonged, traumatic stress; criticism; bullying; and rejection, simultaneously emphasizing the active practicing of coping skills to cope with one’s known stressors (whether they haunt you from the past or threaten you right now) using basic cognitive interventions and mindfulness & relaxation skills (and other self-soothing methods like emotional freedom technique and the floatback strategy to consolidate painful memories), along with an emphasis on warm, accepting, and attuned kinds of human interactions (encouraged to get this outside of counseling too).

Using her own mental health experiences, psychology and counseling knowledge, and acquired skills, she looks forward to giving you— a unique person with your own wonderful potential, tendencies, values, desires, and stressors (threats to self-esteem is an intense stressor especially) — the insights, inspiration, and basic tools you need to thrive amidst your everyday challenges.

When she’s not reading and learning about all of the kinds of therapeutic approaches that exist, she’s tuning into people’s life stories, playing the piano, or trying to brush up on her language skills (or eating or walking). Empowering humans to cope is what she tries to do (we all need strategies to deal with our emotions and with life). Iffah also works full time as a counselor at a university.

To register for sessions, contact her or fill up this registration form.

A hands on attitude person with the ability to read into situations a little more than the rest of the people. A conscious person who has received a Double Degree in Psychology and Criminology from The University of Auckland. She have worked in the only Maximum Prison in the whole of New Zealand called Auckland Prison as a Case Manager where her clients were only prisoners. An advocate and believer in Rehabilitation and not merely Punishment. She have worked with people from different backgrounds. She have used a lot of Cognitive Behavioral Techniques (CBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI) and Behavioral Learning Theory during her role as a Case Manager.

Joyce Wong is a wellness coach, motivation speaker and high performance coach. She obtained her master degree in Food Science and Nutrition. She is the author of the 4 scientific research papers and 1 review paper in the International journals about nutritional properties of plants. With her master degree in Food Science and Nutrition, certified master practitioner in NLP and her experience in her own journey from diagnosis of tumor to healing can definitely bring more awareness and practical tools to the participants to create the long-lasting change.

Her experience has been published in Thrive Global, a well-known international wellness platform : “A Tumor Diagnosis that turns out to be the best thing happened in my life”

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He is a certified mental health responder from Nepal, who initiated a peer-to-peer mental health support group. He is a paraplegic and a suicide attempt survivor. Having been a survivor and battled with depression and mental illnesses for the last 6 and half years, he knows first-hand how difficult it can be to deal with mental illness. He was fortunate enough to survive, and have dedicated his life since then towards becoming a mental health advocate and raising mental health awareness.

His story has been featured in Humans of Kathmandu. He has also published articles in national dailies (Setopati and MyRepublica) in Nepal raising awareness on mental health. He was featured in several talks, webinars, and podcasts as a mental health and motivational speaker both nationally and internationally. He believes our life is defined by our perspective towards it, and so is mental health. His favourite quote is “When ‘I’ is replaced with ‘We’, Even ‘Illness’ becomes ‘Wellness.’ – Malcomm X

Mathy brings with her more than 18 years of working experience in training and consultancy. Mathy is an experienced facilitator with over 18 years in-house corporate experience around Asia. She is passionate about learning and development and has been working in this space for 18 years focusing on Change, Culture and People. Her clients range from Oil & Gas, MNC, Manufacturing, FMCG, Financial Institutions, Education, Insurance and Public Sectors.

She is an expert in HR related trainings especially in Employment Act 1955, Disciplinary & Termination Process. She has been a consultant for few organizations on setting up of the Domestic Enquiry Panels and advising on Employment Act 1955. She has done extensive research on Eradication of Sexual Harassment at workplace. She has been a guest speaker & panelist for Symposiums and Conferences, especially on the topic of Gender Harassment & Women Empowerment topics. She was involved in the development and implementation of the Employability Skills initiated by Ministry Of Higher Education.

As an accredited Trainer of Genos Emotional Intelligence by Swinburne University, Mathy consistently receives positive reviews for her work. The clients will always walk away with a unique aspect of emotional intelligence implementation in their organisation by learning The Neuroscience of Emotions.

I help leaders move their team/workplace from survival mode to sustainable mode.

Post pandemic, most workplaces and leadership teams are struggling with morale and performance – i.e. they are in survival mode.

Here’s what a workplace in survival mode MIGHT look like:

1. Team is doing a lot but getting no where fast
2. Lack of effective communication or understanding
3. Picking up extra workload due to management changes, pandemic or other circumstances
4. Team is demoralised and performance is suffering
5. Team and you are at the brink of burnout – i.e. often sick, or making careless mistakes, having strained meetings and conversations.

In survival mode, your days are spent fire fighting just to get by.

From a neurological perspective, the brain is capable of the most amazing ideas, solutions, planning and innovation – yet people struggle to consistently and sustainably perform despite the best training programs.

The reason being, our brain is built for survival, which overrides the best talents and training in an instant!

The KEY here is to master emotional resilience – and NO, it is not ALL about sitting with your emotions or facing your fears.

Resilience is built on a foundation of mutual trust, clarity and acceptance – i.e. the team feels psychologically safe together. This improves the leader’s and teams’ ability to respond to stressful or unexpected crisis situations with greater clarity.

Based on 20 years of experience in Behavioural Neuroscience and Yogic Sciences, I’ve created a program that helps leaders build an emotionally resilient team that is empowered to drive sustainable growth.