Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training for Decision Making and Leadership
Overview:
Strategic awareness means an open, receptive and generative mind, free from the preconceptions and cognitive distortions that so often cloud our judgment, feelings, and behaviours. It is a lucid perception to reach wise and satisfying decisions in both professional and private life that sustain wellbeing for self and others around us.
Specially designed to enhance decision making for leaders and any person aspiring skillful decision-making to ensure sustainable wellbeing, this course aims to cultivate in participants an open, receptive and generative mind, free from the preconceptions and cognitive distortions that cloud judgement and behaviours.
It is a training programme especially designed for the workplace and individuals confronting the challenges of an active life. As such it addresses specifically a non-clinical population.
For a more detailed introduction to MBSAT, please download the white paper. This course is organised by SMU Academy. For more information on the course and the schedule, please click here.
Is This Course For You?
This course offers know how and practical experiential learning, it presents a structured program for leaders and individuals to make skillful and wise decisions at work and in private life as basis for wellbeing and direction in life. The program is geared towards non-clinical participants confronting the prevailing challenges of our time such as pressure in the workplace, fast changing circumstances and uncertainty.
Mindfulness-Based Strategy Workshop at a Global Multinational Corporation.
Course Dates & Times
| Dates: | TBC |
| Times: | 7pm - 9.30pm (click here to see full schedule) |
| Location: | SMU Campus |
| Instructor: | Jimmy Ong |
SMU is conveniently located in the city centre and easily accessible via public transportation (e.g., MRT stations Bras Basah, Bencoolen, City Hall, and Dhoby Ghaut). In case you intend to arrive by car, feel free to contact us about car parking options at SMU (mindfulness@smu.edu.sg).
Mindfulness Initiative @ SMU may have to cancel a course if not enough participants sign up. Cancellations will be announced as soon as a cancellation decision has been made and can be made up until the day before the course starts. In case of cancellation, a full refund of the course fee will be given.
Course Instructors
Jimmy Ong, a Certified Mindfulness Trainer under the guidance of Dr. Juan Humberto Young, the creator of the Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training (MBSAT) course. This programme blends mindfulness practices, positive psychology, and substantial business expertise to create a practical training regimen aimed at enhancing both personal and professional decision-making skills.
In addition to his mindfulness certification, Jimmy holds various other certifications, including an ICF Associate Certified Coach, GCDF Certified Career Coach, and Certified Agile Trainer with ICAgile. He is also recognized as a Professional Workplace Trainer (ACTA) and a Professional Instructional Curriculum Designer (DACE) by the Institute of Adult Learning under Singapore University of Social Science.
With a career spanning over 25 years, Jimmy has demonstrated his leadership capabilities by managing high-performance teams and driving transformations and growth in Multinational Tech Companies. His roles have ranged from Country Manager to Chief Strategy Officer and Sales Director for the Asia Pacific region. Deeply committed to volunteering, Jimmy has held various positions in grassroots organizations, mentored undergraduates, and newly married couples, and currently serves as the Assistant Director of Human Capital Development at the Singapore Red Cross.
Academically, Jimmy holds a Master's in Human Capital Leadership from Singapore Management University and an MBA from the University of Birmingham.
Born and raised in Singapore, Jimmy's professional journey has taken him to Shanghai and Taiwan. Married with two children, he spends his free time exploring new hiking spots around Singapore.
Course Fees
The fee for this course is $2,180.00 (inclusive of GST) (as low as $254.00 after maximum funding). Please click here for further information.
WHAT OUR PARTICIPANTS THINK
Dr. Juan Humberto Young
Author of Mindfulness-Based Strategic Awareness Training - MBSAT,
Wiley Blackwell 2017
