2025

1) Assembly Talk on Cyber Wellness (Canberra Secondary School)

This interactive assembly talk, for Secondary 2 students, was intended to help participants gain a deeper awareness of digital wellbeing and online safety.

Session Objectives:

To help students: 

1) Assess their own digital habits, identify areas for improvement, and commit to actionable steps for digital wellbeing and online safety.

2) Recognise the core principles of “Respect for Self and Others”, “Safe and Responsible Use”, and “Positive Peer Influence”;

3) Spot common online risks (e.g., scams, cyberbullying, privacy threats) and demonstrate responsible online decision-making.

4) Apply the “Sense-Think-Act” approach to evaluate online situations and make safe, respectful, and ethical choices;

5) Reflect on scenarios to support peers, show empathy, and promote a safe and positive digital environment; and

6) Assess their own digital habits, identify areas for improvement, and commit to actionable steps for digital wellbeing and online safety.

2) Assembly Talk on Stress Managment (Canberra Secondary School)

This interactive assembly talk, for Secondary 3 students, was intended to help participants manage stress.

Session Objectives:

1. To increase students’ awareness of stress as a natural physiological and psychological response;
2. To differentiate between “good” and “bad” stress, helping students recognise how stress can motivate or overwhelm them;
3. To identify common causes and signs of stress and distress that students face in their daily and academic lives;
4. To introduce and apply techniques for stress appraisal and management; and
5. To encourage students to reflect on their personal stress responses and set actionable goals for managing stress effectively.

3) Coffee Appreciation & Mental Wellness (MSF Rehabilitation & Protection Group)

This experiential session, conducted in partnership with Uzen Tan, Co-Founder of Nineteen95 the Expresso Bar, was intended to help the Youth Home staff better appreciate how coffee can be a positive aspect of their mental wellbeing. Two workshops were conducted, one each at the Singapore Boys’ Home and the Singapore Girls’ Home. The workshop included the tasting and appreciation of coffee, as well as the scientific research behind why enjoying coffee can be an important ritual as part of your day.

Topics covered:

❖The Science of Coffee

❖Coffee & Physical Wellbeing

❖Coffee & Emotional Wellbeing

❖Coffee & Cognition

❖Coffee, Stress, and Relaxation 

❖Mindful Coffee Rituals 

❖Considerations About Coffee

4) Power Up You Brain (Boon Lay Gardens Primary School)

This was Part 2 of a specialised workshop catered at helping students with ADHD to manage focus and attention issues.

Topics Covered:

❖Techniques to Improve the Memory

❖The Cerebral Cortex & Neurobics

❖Building Brain Connections: Crossing the Midline

5) Positive Behaviour Support (TOUCH Centre for Independent Learning)

Participants at the 2-day workshop underwent an intensive programme on how to help students who display challenging behaviour. Participants learnt some of the key behavioural theories and how to apply them in context, with numerous case studies and roleplay sessions customised to meet the needs of the participants. A key component of the programme was a component on Functional Behaviour Analysis and how to implement a centre-wide behaviour intervention plan incorporating all stakeholders.

6) Positive Behaviour Support (Mindchamps @ Temasek Club)

This was a half-day session with the following objectives:

1. To help participants gain an understanding of the behavioural approach in addressing challenging behaviours;
2. To help participants gain an understanding of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS); and
3. To help participants learn how to implement PBS.

7) Learning Needs Workshop (Beatty Secondary School)

This was an intermediate level workshop, for educators at Beatty Secondary School, with facilitated discussions on how to better help students who have learning needs. The session was part of the school’s professional development programme, and was intended to help educators understand how students with learning challenges see the world in a different manner. It was to help educators support students with challenges in the areas of writing, reading, speaking, and idea scaffolding.

Topics Covered:

Challenges in Learning: Working with a Beautiful MIND

Challenges in Writing: Handwriting, Idea Generation, Expression & Organistion

Challenges in Reading & Speaking: Technology & the 21st Century World

Helping Children with a Beautiful MIND: Scaffolding, Structuring & Sharing of Ideas

Case Studies, Student Management & Instructional Strategies

8) Executive Functioning Skills (Admiralty Primary School)

This was a 2-day workshop for Primary 6 students at Admiralty Primary School to learn Executive Functioning (EF) Skills, which are important to help students succeed in life. EF Skills refer to several mental processes that allow us to think and act in a goal-directed manner. Our EF Skills programme helped to develop students in the following areas:

a) Stress, Downtime & Self-Care

b) Understanding My Strengths & How I Learn Best

c) Memory Games & How to Build Brain Power

9) Peer Support Workshop (Woodlands Primary School)

This version of our Peer Support Programme, with 40 Primary 3-4 Students, was a curated version of our traditional workshop, incorporating more hands-on activities as well as discussion and reflection points to engage younger participants. The 4-hour programme comprised four modules as follows:

Module A – Peer Support & Empathy

Module B – Active Listening & Communication Skills

Module C – Understanding Youth Issues & Special Needs

Module D – Mental Wellness, Signs of Distress, Support Systems & Self Care

10) Peer Support Workshop (CHIJ Secondary School)

This is the third year that The Social Factor has run peer support workshops for the school’s Wellbeing Reps to better support peers who are in distress. The workshop’s emphasis was on facilitated discussions and roleplay sessions, and these workshops are part of our enhanced Peer Support sessions which incorporate an increased emphasis of empathic listening skills to better address mental wellness issues.

11) Mental & Social Wellness Workshops (Ngee Ann Polytechnic)

This is one of our core programmes, and we have been conducting these workshops for polytechnic students since 2020. For the June/July run, our 9 trainers conducted 56 sessions for more than 70 students per session over a period of two weeks. Students were taught how to help their friends who are undergoing distress, as well as what to do when relationship boundaries are breached.

12) Workshop on Calm Corners & Safe Spaces (Yishun Primary School)

This was a professional development workshop to help all teachers learn about the importance of calm corners and how to set up safe spaces in the classroom.

1. To help participants gain a deeper insight into Calm Corners and how these spaces can help in the areas of emotional regulation and stress management; and
2. To help participants apply these theoretical approaches through practical learning, thereby becoming more effective with student management and handling meltdowns in the classroom.