Schedule
Duration : Half-Day Workshop
| Date | Time | Venue |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Dec 2026 | 9.00am – 12.30pm (Singapore Standard Time GMT+0800) |
ACC EduHub 51 Cuppage Rd, #03-03, Singapore 229469 |
Note: No lunch is provided.
Corporate Registration Individual Registration
Course Fees & Closing Dates
| Registration Type | Closing Date | Fees (S$) |
|---|---|---|
| Early Bird | 15 Sep 2026 | 280 |
| Normal | Till Full | 340 |
Overview
A genuine sense of safety and belonging is not merely a pleasant addition to the classroom—it is a fundamental requirement for effective learning. Despite educators’ best efforts to cultivate nurturing environments, students’ neurological responses may not always align with the surface-level warmth of those spaces. Even in classrooms that appear inviting, fear-driven reactions can still surface.
Course Outline
In this workshop, you will explore how the brain processes signals of safety and threat. Through this understanding, you will gain practical strategies and refine your teaching practices to more effectively nurture students’ emotional security and connection.
Grounded in neuroscience, this course delivers actionable insights designed to support student well-being and ensure that every learner feels acknowledged, secure, and prepared to participate.
Course Objectives
At the end of the course, you will learn to
- Translate interpersonal neurobiology into classroom practice: strategies for building emotionally protective spaces that facilitate co-regulation and a return to relational connection.
- Identify strategies to strengthening the relational container: evidence-informed methods for enhancing psychological safety and belonging within classrooms and across the school community to support optimal development and learning.
- Equip students and educators with mindset-shifting techniques that promote cognitive flexibility, reduce threat responses, and foster a culture of resilience and growth.
Who Can Benefit?
This workshop is designed for teachers, school-based and clinical mental health professionals, or others who support educators and students.
Speaker
Dr. Alicia Pon, Ph.D.
Dr. Alicia Pon is a practicing Counselor with extensive experience in child and adolescent mental health, trauma recovery and developmental and adjustment issues. For the past 30 years, she has worked in private practice and academia, providing direct psychotherapy, clinical supervision and training and consultation. She offers trauma intensives, somatic work, play and sandplay therapy for children and adults. In addition, she is very passionate about empowering professionals with tools to support mental health through a trauma informed, neurobiological lens.
Her clinical trainings are in in Child Centered Play Therapy, Synergetic Play Therapy, Jungian Sandplay Therapy, Somatic Experiencing™, SensoriMotor Art Therapy, Touch Work, Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Therapy, and Pre and perinatal psychology.
