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E-MERGE! 2008 - Experts Andrew Fretwell - Anne Hockett - Carol Randall - Clement Ronald Ng - David Cheah - Dennis Heath - Douglas Harding - Ginny Phang - Jacki Nicholas - Jacky Bryant - Jennifer Norris - Jenny Bigio - Joe Nathan Lourdes - 'Vaidayar' Mani Maran Nadesan Veerappan - Dr. Nancy Anne Schrauth - Suzanne Bocking - Thomas Lim Hoong Seng - Timothy Hsi - Zoran Pejic Andrew Fretwell UP Breathwork and Inner Alchemy
Andrew has over 25 years experience in teaching Taoist Inner Alchemy and Qi Gong, and is one of the few senior Instructors Mantak Chia has authorized to teach and certify students on his behalf. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook Anne Hockett UP Taking Control of Your Health Anne Hockett has practiced in the health care field for more than 20 years. With a Masters degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, she has applied her work experience, research and teaching in Asia to better understand how modern medicine and traditional energy healing can be most effectively integrated. Since 1983, Anne has worked in a variety of capacities with children and adults with physical and emotional needs. She has dedicated significant portions of her time building and growing health services focused on the holistic needs of people with acute and chronic medical conditions. Anne is also certified in numerous natural healing techniques including homeopathy, Bach Flower Remedies, Bio Chem Salts, Reiki, Spacial Light, etc. She maintains close links to many of the top mind-body medical institutions and is a member of several international mind-body medical associations. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk Carol Randall UP Body Image Carol Randall, a British expat, has lived in Singapore for seven years. Carol left a successful career in the corporate world of reinsurance to start a unique fashion boutique in Singapore. Her flourishing company, Cayen, has grown from strength to strength over the last three years and creates distinctive high-quality clothes to suit all moods, occasions and body shapes. Cayen also offers wardrobe planning and style advice as part of a truly personal service that sets it apart from other fashion boutiques. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook Clement Ronald Ng UP Flower Power, Blooms for Health Clement Ng set up the Eden Café to cater to his true passion – sharing a home-style and healthy eating place with an attention to details, service and quality food. Clement believes that many people confuse their taste buds with too many heavy flavours, and have forgotten how good simple things taste. He has also pioneered the renaissance of ‘floral cuisine’, using flowers to augment and enhance food. Clement is reminding people of the joy, beauty and delightful taste of flowers in different areas of life, in food and drink – using them also in his health supporting line of tea infusions. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook David Cheah UP ChakraDance David first became interested in the chakra system 10 years ago through training as a Pranic Healer and Arhatic Yogi in Malaysia as well as practicing Ashtanga Yoga in Australia since 1999. He started attending Chakradance classes in 2002 and finds it keeps him feeling alive, connected and being in the moment by integrating the mind, body and spirit through all the senses. As an architect, designer and artist who focuses mainly on the visual senses, he found Chakradance offered a whole new world for self-expression. David has completed an intensive training course to become one of the first Chakradance teachers in the world. He is also a member of the International Institute of Complementary Therapies. He sees this as an opportunity to bring chakra awareness back into eastern society in a fun and meaningful way. Like art, it is accessible to most people and can be appreciated at different levels while reaping its therapeutic and healing benefits. Like painting, it is the journey not the destination that is important to him. He prefers to see his role as facilitator rather than teacher. Chakradance is like a journey into the seven quite different worlds of the chakras where the mode of transportation is music. David sees himself as the ‘tour guide’ in this journey. After some initial exercises and guided visualisations to help activate the chakras, like every good tour, participants are then given free time to explore each chakra further by surrendering to the music and finding their own movements to connect deeper with the energy of each chakra. David’s holistic approach to life will see him continue to explore the synergy between Chakradance and Art in the hope of adding a new dimension to the Art of Living (and Dancing) to the fullest! Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & Check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk Dennis Heath UP Communication & Influence
Dennis Heath is a qualified Executive Coach, accredited by the International Coach Federation, helping managers become leaders and helping leaders and their businesses reach peak performance. His background includes thirty years in sales and management positions internationally. His clients often refer to his calm aura combined with laser-like questions that help them come up with new ideas and approaches to business issues. Areas of Expertise Executive Coaching; Coaching hi-potentials in transition to senior management; Leadership effectiveness assessment; Myers Briggs assessment and feedback; 360 assessment and feedback; Research and publishing coaching/leadership articles; International business in the technology industry Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk Douglas Harding UP Story Writing of Your Life Douglas Harding is a certified Hypnotherapist who writes and directs story-driven concepts and content for internationally distributed film and TV projects. A permanent resident of Singapore, Douglas has 20 years experience in television production and creativity. Regional and international credits include 50 episodes of STUDIO DISNEY for Disney Channel, and 26 episodes of ECO 4 THE WORLD (UN environmental series). Singapore credits include the kids sports show NRG!, the finance programs YOUR MONEY and TALKING ASSETS. International corporate credits include work with Intel, HP, Microsoft, Citibank, and Coca-Cola. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & download a PodCast!
Ginny Phang UP HypnoBirthing Four Trimesters Pte Ltd is co-owned and operated by Ginny, who is a certified Doula, Childbirth Educator, Hypnotherapist, HypnoFertility and HypnoBirthing practitioner, affiliated with the HypnoBirthing Institute USA. Over the past few years, she has supported over 100 births, and more than 200 couples in classes, mostly women seeking vaginal birth after a cesarean (vbac) and many second time mothers or more. Ginny is the only HypnoBirthing Practitioner who has taught the most couples in Singapore & Asia, with more than 90 couples attending her classes since HypnoBirthing was introduced to Singapore in July 2005 and is the first and only HypnoFertility Practitioner in Singapore. Ginny is a single mother to her 5.5 year old son who is currently breastfeeding and home-schooled. She co-founded Flyin' Solo (www.flyinsolo.org), a registered support group for unmarried mothers in Singapore and is currently involved in the developmental stage of expansion and funding. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk Jacki Nicholas UP Coaching and Change An accomplished executive coach, facilitator and organisational consultant, Jacki enhances individuals, teams and organisations through developing authentic leadership and high performance behaviours. With 20 years of international experience, she specialises in: Executive coaching; Facilitation of executive meetings; Leadership & management development; Creativity & innovation; High performance teams; Competency development & applications; Transformational change; Leveraging diversity; Organisational development; Assessments & diagnostics; InterCultural OnBoarding™; Executive OnBoarding Jacki is the Founder and Managing Director of InsideOut Consulting. Her career has spanned corporate finance, management consulting and human capital development. Jacki is an executive coach with the Global Leadership Development Centre of INSEAD Business School, a certified Lore Executive Coach, and a graduate of the international Coach University. Jacki is a member of several international federations in her fields. She has worked with a wide range of MNC and small business organisations to support their people and change. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk Jacky Bryant UP Food Intolerence and Your Child
Jacky Bryant is a dynamic mother of 4 children and a concerned parent in terms of her children’s mental and physical health. After discovering the affects of food additives on people, and especially children, Jacky set up Kids For Life to promote additive awareness and help parents to feed their children safer, without having to travel the unprocessed or costly organic food route! Jacky documented the contents of labels of foodstuff in grocery stores in Singapore. She has an extensive and continually updated list on processed foods that are free of potentially harmful additives and transfats. A community minded woman, Jacky created the event Shear Inspiration, and inspired 21 women (expatriate and local Singaporeans) to shave their heads to raise money and awareness for the Children’s Cancer Foundation (http://www.ccf.org.sg/). This event raised over $300,000 for a bone-marrow transplant room constructed at the KK Women and Children’s Hospital. CCF have asked that Shear Inspiration be run again in 2008, to support CCF’s aim of raising greater awareness within the Community. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk Jennifer Norris UP Hypnotherapy Jennifer Norris is founder of Grey Matter Network. Canadian-born Jennifer is a self-professed “Renaissance Woman”, who focuses in life, learning and change in a wide variety of ways. She has over 15 years implementing counselling, consulting and training. In her journey to support and hone the power of the mind, Jennifer first became a Hypnotherapist through the National Guild of Hypnotists, the world’s oldest and largest hypnosis organisation. She is also a Master Hypnotist, certified Sports Hypnotist and is a certified HypnoBirthing® Practitioner. Jennifer wrote her first Masters’ thesis on areas of subconscious use in business, marketing and market research, and continues expanding the concept of improving the ‘corporate mind’ through group and individual programs. Jennifer is author of Three Hypnotic Powers: To Enhance and Enrich Your Child’s Life. This Parent’s Guide helps to actively explain the workings of a child’s mind, and assists in developing self-worth and ability through exercises using the power of Words, Perceptions and Feelings, and the Imagination. As a Certified Instructor (National Guild of Hypnotists), Jennifer focuses both on the needs of her clients as well as the development and maturation of this expanding profession within Asia, and continues to work with individuals, groups and companies to increasingly make subconscious work the most relevant way to make positive change. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk Jenny Bigio UP Reiki
Reiki Master Jenny Bigio has been teaching Reiki since 1998. A student, teacher, practitioner and facilitator of the healing arts for 12 years (she is also a certified Hypnotherapist and Svastha Yoga teacher), she finds Reiki to be the most gentle tool for healing and transformation, and teaches Reiki regularly in Singapore and the UK. Leading her own branding consultancy in Singapore, Jenny’s work in the corporate world has focused on helping organisations articulate and express their essence. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk Joe Nathan Lourdes UP Stage Hypnosis Joe is the Director of Hypnosis Works Pte Ltd and co-founder of APHI. He is trained as a Certified Hypnotherapist with the National Guild of Hypnotists and also in Hypno-Pain Management and 5-PATH Hypnotherapy. He is Singapore’s only NGH-trained stage hypnotist. Joe is certified by the NGH to train Certified Hypnotists worldwide. He is currently completing a Masters of Social Science (Counselling) with the University of South Australia. With his diverse training both in the US and in Singapore, Joe is a well-rounded hypnotist, well-versed in many different aspects of hypnosis, both traditional and Ericksonian. He is also comfortable with both individual and group hypnosis. To prove the efficacy of hypnosis to himself, Joe underwent dental surgery without any anaesthesia. He also runs regular corporate and public stress management programmes as well as a private practice for one-to-one sessions with clients dealing with the full range of issues. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk 'Vaidayar' Mani Maran Nadesan Veerappan UP Ayurveda Mani is Singaporean and undertook his training in Ayurveda as an initiate and disciple in an ashram in a small village called Chalakudi, Kerala, in South West India. He was in India for a number of years and was most fortunate to be studying at a place renowned for its orthodoxy and traditions in many things of Ancient India, foremost being that of the Indian Martial Arts and Ayurveda. Mani carries the title of Vaidyar, a title bestowed on those who practice Ayurveda in its traditional and authentic form. In addition to his time of study in India, the traditions were also passed down through his parents from his grandfathers, also renowned Vaidyars. Mani has his own company, “Ancient’s Best Clinic & Study Centre of Ayurveda and Yoga”. Mani is foremost a teacher and guide providing patients and students with the understanding and support needed to make the adjustments required to live their lives according to Ayurvedic principles. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook Dr. Nancy Anne Schrauth UP Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy Dr. Nancy Anne Schrauth is a Chiropractor, trained in the USA and has been practicing in Singapore for 15 years. She studied Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy with Franklyn Sills (UK), and is also a qualified Yoga Therapist, she did her training with Shri AG Mohan in Singapore and Chennai. Dr. Nancy, as she is referred to, is particularly known for her gentle adjusting style and technique, as well as her caring, holistic approach to Chiropractic care. She incorporates information and advice on nutrition, diet, exercise, stretching, yoga and lifestyle modifications in her treatment plan. Dr. Nancy believes that it is more than the symptoms that defines ill-health and disease, and that good health and wellness is more than the absence of illness and disease. She firmly believes in the self-healing power of the body, and offers optimism and hope in the face of health challenges. She coaches and encourages her patients to take a proactive role in their health care. Her unique skills and training give her many tools to assist her patients, and she has successfully treated babies, children, and adults in all stages of life. She is the founder of Lightstreams Chiropractic Care Pte Ltd. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk Suzanne Bocking UP Nutrition and Fitness Suzanne Bocking’s life mission is to assist positive transformation in women. She believes that every woman’s birthright is to have good health and empowers women in achieving this. Suzanne has been working in the health and fitness industry since 1993 and feels passionately about the work she and her team does at Body Temple. Suzanne possesses a Bachelor’s Degree in Adult Education, and a Masters Degree in Social Science in Counselling. Since completing her coaching principles in 1993 Suzanne has participated in a number of personal training certifications from Australia. She has undergone extensive education on nutrition and pre/post natal exercise for women. Suzanne created Body Temple in 2005 out of a need she saw in women’s health and fitness in Singapore. Body Temple has since grown to a team of 6 helping women in gaining control back in their lives and empowered hundred of women to be the best they can be. Suzanne is now one of Singapore’s most in-demand personal trainer and a leading speaker on women’s fat loss and health. She continues to do all the things she is passionate about; personal training, providing nutritional guidance, education and seminars, corporate programs, and community work. Her integrity and true commitment to women is what constantly motivates her to be her best. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk Thomas Lim Hoong Seng UP HypnoFertility Thomas Lim Hoong Seng is a US National Guild of Hypnotists Certified Hypnotherapist and Instructor. He is also a member of the International Association of Counselors and Therapists. Thomas has had additional specialized training including HypnoFertiliyTM Therapist; HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Educator; 5-PATH Hypnotherapy; Hypno-Anaesthesia; Masters in Social Science (Counselling) (ongoing) Whilst maintaining a private practice in the Siglap area, Thomas is also a faculty member of Asia Pacific Hypnosis Institute. APHI offers hypnotherapy certification training and advanced classes in Singapore as well as internationally. Thomas also conducts seminars and workshops for both public and corporate clients and is available for speaking engagements. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk Timothy Hsi UP Counselling in the Community Timothy wears many hats at the Singapore Management University. He heads the Centre for Counseling & Guidance (CCG) and works very closely with the Dean of Students as his Assistant Director. Tim is also an Adjunct Faculty with the Lee Kong Chian School of Business teaching a course on Facilitation & Counseling Skills. In addition to his counseling and teaching load, he is also the current Housemaster at SMU’s hostel, “SMU Residence@Prinsep”. His influence and impact amongst students led to a highly successful peer helping program initiated amongst the student community since 2003, when he first joined the University. This program predominantly seeks to assist and help fellow students emotionally, academically and cognitively. Timothy is a Qualified Member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA), a Registered Counsellor with the Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC), an Associate Mediator with the Singapore Mediation Centre (SMC), a Certified Behavioral Consultant with the Institute of Motivational Living Inc., USA and a Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Practitioner with the Australasian Institute of NLP. Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook Zoran Pejic UP Focus and Vision Mr. Zoran Pejic is an orthoptist with a BSc in Special Education, visual Deficiency and Orthoptics from Belgrade University. He pioneered non-surgical treatment of certain types of strabisumus (squint) at the Singapore National Eye Centre. In addition to this, he completed the training under British Association of Behavioral Optometrists and created the vision remediation program for children whose learning may be affected by ineffective visual functioning. In addition to this, he is working with patients of all age groups that have problems with visual psychophysics, such as problems with focusing, irrespective of being physical or psychological in nature, particularly in regards to pseudo myopia or presbyopia (age related long-sightedness). Zoran is currently studying for a MMedSci (orthoptics) with The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom and is the founding president of the Asia Pacific Orthoptic Association. At the moment he is providing vision training at Orthovision, specialized vision therapy centre. Orthovision offers vision therapy for functional vision disorders associated with learning difficulties, lazy eye, strabismus (crossed eyes), eye strain, headaches, and other forms of visual psychophysics. 91 Tanglin Road, #02-01 Tanglin Place, Singapore. Website is going to be completed soon: http://www.orthovision.com.sg/ Read the Article in the E-Merge! eBook & check Schedule for Free E-Merge! Talk |