17th FNS Forum On 12 May 2007

Were there situations where your participants were having problems with issues that were difficult to articulate? Had they pondered but couldn't uncover the root cause and find the means to resolve them? If you have this experience, then the methodology of 'Visual Journelling' maybe what you are looking for to help your participants and enhance your skills as a facilitator. Visual Journelling allows people to create dialogues between their drawings and their emotions through deep reflection.

Once again, we are organising another facilitators network session on 12 May 2007.

Participants @ 10 Mar 2007's Session

During the 17th FNS Forum, Mr Lau Mun Ying, a creative coach and award winning lecturer from the Singapore Polytechnic, will present the techniques of Visual Journelling. The programme for the morning is as followed:

Time

0830 Signing In (Payment of S$10.00 @ the doors)

0900

Checking in & Ice Breaking
Introduction to 'Visual Journelling' (Co-facilitated by Mr Lee Seng Teck)

Warm Up Drawings (Printouts and stationaries are provided
Tea Break
Journelling of Life Challenges

Solution Generation Through Metaphor

1200 Conclusion, Closing Circle & Checking Out

1230 Session Ends

Please log onto http://www.fns.sg/current_programs.htm to register for the session and to obtain the address for the venue.

Bio of Mr Lau Mun Ying

Mun Ying is a creativity coach and award-winning lecturer at the Singapore Polytechnic's School of Design, specialising in topics of Creativity and Design Thinking, Scriptwriting and Drawing/Storyboarding, and Media and Branding Theory.

An inveterate life-long learner with a passion for the arts, creativity and imagination, Mun Ying is currently pursuing certifications in creative arts therapy and coaching. He has studied under renowned psychologist Arnold Mindell Ph.D. (Founder of Process-Oriented Psychology and author of Dreambody and The Dream-maker's Apprentice) and psychotherapist Eric Maisel, Ph.D. (Founding Creativity Coach and author of Coaching the Artist Within and Fearless Creating).

A graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Journalism and Communications at the University of Oregon, Mun Ying has had a diverse range of work experiences in the creative industries. He has been the Associate Editor for the Northwest Asian Weekly newspaper in Seattle , WA; Research Director for Exhilarated! Edusystems, a transformational coaching company; Games Writer/Developer with Game-Online; Copy-writer and Features-writer, with works published in Asia-Online, Vacation and Be. Magazine, and the Straits Times. He has also serve stints as Script Reader for the Singapore Film Commission and Script Judge for the Singapore National Screenwriting Competition in 2005, as well as being the former Secretariat and Script Coach for the Screenwriters Association (Singapore).

Mun Ying has conducted workshops for the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS), Media Development Authority (MDA) and the Screenwriters Association ( Singapore ). He is a member of the Creativity Coaching Association, USA , and is currently engaged in on-going research on incorporating mythic journeys, metaphors, symbolic modelling, games/simulations as creativity coaching tools in academic and corporate training settings.