Caring for Life

30/06/2025

Hi everyone 👋🏼

💙 The Community Su***de Prevention Summit 2025 is now open for registration!
🗓️ 10 & 11 September 2025
🌐 Online conference — open to all in Singapore
🔗 Register here: https://caringforlifesg.org/communitysu***depreventionsummit2025/

This is Singapore’s first national-level su***de prevention summit for the public — bringing together everyday people, educators, youth, workplace leaders, and professionals to learn how we can all play a role in supporting those in distress.

Whether you’re a friend, teacher, supervisor, grassroots volunteer or caregiver — this is for you. 🫶

If this speaks to you, please consider joining us — and feel free to forward this along to someone who might benefit too.

Let’s build a more connected and su***de-resilient community, together.

Thanks so much! 🙏🏼
– Alex

28/01/2025

24/12/2024

Wishing everyone a blessed christmas and a joyful new year ahead!

Much to look forward in this new chapter and tons of new memories to be made together.

With blessings
Caring for Life

10/07/2024

GET YOUR TICKETS NOW: CFL's Monthly Brown Bag Session on every last Thursday of the month*

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/managing-workplace-conflict-the-whats-and-hows-tickets-943284177367?aff=oddtdtcreator

Come join us for our monthly brown bag session where we will be diving into ways to gain insight into mental health and overall well-being. This is a great opportunity to learn practical tips and techniques to improve mental well-being at workplace.

**Light refreshments will be provided.

Upcoming session
Date: Thu, July 25 2024
Time: 12:30 PM
Location: Deutsche Bank

Special Guest for the session: Ms. June Lim
Psychologist at The Psychology Clinic and Mindfulness Facilitator

Topic: *Managing Workplace Conflict - The Whats and Hows*
1. Change your perspective on conflicts
2. Understand your conflict management style
3. Learn about the causes of conflicts in the workplace and practical steps on how to manage them.

We will have experts in the field sharing their knowledge and experiences to help you on your journey to better mental health. Don't miss out on this valuable event!

30/06/2024

Today's Brown Bag session brought us TWO special guests, reflecting the theme of the month, Psychological Safety and Supporting Colleagues' Well-being, how diverse personalities can come together and emerge stronger with a sprinkle of empathy. Heng Zechuan, a peer support specialist, shared from experience that helping someone should not result in them coming back for more help. Daniel Lim illustrated with a rousing activity how different people could be, and encouraged us all to look for talents and strengths, which everyone has, and can be seen when we look closely, positively, enough.

07/05/2024

Monthly Brown Bag Session on every last Thursday of the month

Date: Thu, May 30 2024
Time: 12:30 PM (to start reporting by 12:20PM)
Location: Deutsche Bank (One Raffles Quay, Level 17 South Tower, Singapore 048583)

Come join us for our monthly brown bag session where we will be diving into ways to gain insight into mental health and overall well-being. This is a great opportunity to learn practical tips and techniques to improve mental well-being at workplace.

Special Guest for the session: Ms. Carrie Tan

Transformative Healing Coach, Member of Parliament (Singapore), Speaker & Trainer at Lightbearers Collective

Title: Thriving in the Workplace - Awareness and Practices for Emotional Optimality

Understand what saps our emotional energy and well-being
Find out ways to catalyze your emotional healing and resilience
Learn practical steps for everyday emotional hygiene

**Light refreshments will be provided. Participants are encouraged to bring their lunch since the organizer will not be catering, and time is short.

Do invite your friends to come along for this event and have them register with the following link: https://www.eventbrite.sg/e/thriving-in-the-workplace-awareness-and-practices-for-emotional-optimality-tickets-898254642817?aff=oddtdtcreator

19/04/2024

How do I know that my therapist is the right fit for me?

In today's world, we are faced with a plethora of Mental Health Specialists to go to. No wonder people get confused, and it's really not quite helpful to add confusion to someone already facing challenges.
Dr Joseph Leong Jern-yi from Promises Healthcare helps to shed light on questions more common than we think.

Dr Leong recommends seeing the professional at least 3 times before making a judgement. Yes. We do have the choice to move on. Don't feel stuck, don't get stuck. But how do you know what's working when you've tried out 10 therapists or so? It is a time for honest self-reflection, for examining what you've learnt from each one, and who's doing all the work. Therapy is a partnership, and it takes both hands to clap - it is important to conscientiously put what we learnt into action.

In collaboration with Mental Health Film Festival Singapore, and A Space Between

Welcome to LIFE Chat, where we bring you digestible knowledge about mental health, mental well being, and su***de prevention. This is part of our upstream su...

14/04/2024

Caring For Our Loved Ones

The Bukit Batok Green Ribbon Taskforce (BB GRTF) is teaming up with Caregivers Alliance Limited (CAL) to organize Caregivers-to-Caregivers Persons with Mental Health Issues (C2C PMHI) training programme. Starting from early May 2024, sessions will be held every Monday (in Chinese) and Friday (in English) at the Bukit Batok Zone 6 RN. This training is also open to non-Bukit Batok residents. The details are all laid out in the EDM below.

As there are limited slots available, do encourage interested caregivers to register using the QR codes as soon as possible, or help spread the word of the upcoming training!

On behalf of (BB GRTF)

11/04/2024

Why is it so Hard to Accept that My Child has a Mental Health Condition?

It may be shocking to receive the diagnosis of a mental health condition. Parents become anxious about both present and future, and experience stigma. Some may experience denial.

What does 'creating a safe space' for your child mean? In this context, having a conversation without interruption. If the child doesn't talk to you, find a trusted adult. Be creative. Bring home a 'friend' who happens to be a therapist or counselor.

Remember, your child is as traumatised and as confused as you are and may not show it.

Witnessing the confusion of finding help, Alex, our guest, and a co-creator created a computer programme called 'Mental Connect' which patients and their caregivers can use to discover the many treatments available and select one suitable to their diagnosis and circumstances.

Parents are the strongest supporters of our children. Care for yourself too, and we hope you will pick up some from today's podcast!

Quickly and easily listen to ParentEd for free!

08/04/2024

*Monthly Brown Bag Session on every last Thursday of the month*

Come join us for our monthly brown bag session where we will be diving into ways to gain insight into mental health and overall well-being. This is a great opportunity to learn practical tips and techniques to improve mental well-being at workplace.

***Only refreshments will be provided. Participants are allowed or even encouraged to bring their lunch since the organizer will not cater lunch.*

Upcoming session
Date: Thu, April 25 2024
Time: 12:30 PM
Location: Deutsche Bank

*Special Guest for the session: Mr. Caleb Tan*
Senior Manager at MOH Office for Healthcare Transformation (MOHT) | Digital Mental Health & Innovation | Public HealthNavigating Workplace Challenges: Resilience & Communication

- Topics include fostering (i) a more resilient self and (ii) safespace which includes communication between staff and supervisiors that allows employees to recover from difficult situations in the workplace.

We will have experts in the field sharing their knowledge and experiences to help you on your journey to better mental health. Don't miss out on this valuable event!

Ticket: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/navigating-workplace-challenges-resilience-communication-tickets-875765767987?aff=oddtdtcreator