our mindfulness trainers

Adj. A/Prof Angie Chew

Mindfulness Principal

Ms Lily Gan

Senior Counsellor & Senior Mindfulness Trainer

Ms Christina Liew

Mindfulness Trainer

our guest trainers

Dr Judson Brewer

Psychiatrist & Neuroscientist, Brown University, and Author

Dr Sara Lazar

Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr Ronald Siegel

Assistant Professor (part time), Harvard Medical School

Dr David Treleavan

Mindfulness & Trauma Expert, Author

Dr Christopher Willard

Adjunct Faculty Member, Clinical Psychologist, Consultant and Author

[Brahm Centre Trainer] Adj. A_Prof Angie Chew

Assoc Prof Angie Chew

Adj. A/Prof Angie Chew is the Founder and CEO of Brahm Centre, a mental health charity with over 50 staff, dedicated to promoting happier and healthier living. In recognition of her contributions in the mental health space, she was named “The Straits Times Singaporean of the Year 2019”.

She is the first certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher in Singapore conferred by the Mindfulness Center at Brown University School of Public Health. She is also a Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Course teacher trained by Oxford University Mindfulness Centre.

As an Adjunct Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, she teaches the “The Undefeated Mind” course.

She has conducted mindfulness courses, workshops and retreats for more than 15,000 people across all ages including some of these corporate clients:

- Healthcare: Ministry of Health, National Healthcare Group, SingHealth, Institute of Mental Health, Agency for Integrated Care, Health Science Authority, Raffles Hospital, National Heart Centre Singapore, National Dental Centre Singapore
- Education: Ministry of Education, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Hwa Chong Institution, Raffles Institution, NUS High School, Nanyang Girls’ High School, Chung Cheng High, Queenstown Primary, Dunman Secondary
- Finance: Monetary Authority of Singapore, DBS Bank, OCBC Bank, Bank of Singapore, Allianz Insurance
- Public Service: Singapore Judiciary, Singapore Police Force, Singapore Prison Service, MINDEF Singapore, Ministry of Manpower, Republic of Singapore Air Force, Housing & Development Board, Civil Service College
- Others: CapitalLand Limited, Keppel Corporation, Korn Ferry, Thales

Ms Lily Gan

Lily Gan is a senior Mindfulness Trainer in Brahm Centre since 2018. She has been a mindfulness practitioner from 2015 and has been teaching the Mindfulness Foundation Course in both English and Chinese languages. In Mar 2022, she completed her 1 year teacher training on Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT-L) at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, UK.

Lily is also a senior counsellor at Brahm Centre, having graduated with a Masters of Social Science (Counselling & Psychotherapy) from Edith Cowen University, Australia in 2011. She applies mindfulness as an essential modality in her counselling sessions. She has many years of experience counselling clients, especially those experiencing anxiety and depression symptoms.

颜莉莉老师从2015 年开始修习正念, 自2018 年起担任百仁中心正念导师, 教导正念基础课程。2022 年 3 月，她结业于英国牛津正念中心为期 1 年的正念认知疗法 (MBCT-L) 教师培训。颜老師谙熟双语, 能以英语和华语教授正念课程。她教导的正念课程已成功的培训了多名学员开始了他们的正念之旅。

颜老師也是百仁中心的资深心理辅导师，她于 2011 年毕业于澳大利亚伊迪斯科文大学 (辅导与心理治疗) 硕士学位。她在拥有丰富的咨询经验，以正念为根基来辅导个案，特别是有焦虑和抑郁症状的来访者。

Ms Christina Liew

Christina Liew is a qualified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher, trained by the Brown University School of Public Health and a certified mindfulness course trainer of Brahm Centre. Christina is also trained to deliver the Dot-breathe program by the Mindfulness in Schools Project (UK). Besides being a Mindfulness trainer, she is currently the Mindfulness Program Manager at Brahm Centre, organizing Mindfulness programs for both the public and private sectors.

Having struggled in her relationships with her sons during their formative years, and applying Mindfulness to heal the relationships, Christina’s interests are in youth mental health and applying mindfulness in parenting to enhance the relationships in the family.

Christina graduated with a degree in Accountancy from the Nanyang Technological University. Prior to joining Brahm Centre, she was an Associate Lecturer with a local Polytechnic.

A/Prof Judson Brewer

Judson Brewer, MD PhD, is an internationally known thought leader in the field of habit change and the “science of self-mastery”, having combined over 20 years of experience with mindfulness training with his scientific research. He is the Director of Research and Innovation at the Brown University’s Mindfulness Center and Associate Professor in Behavioral and Social Science at the School of Public Health and Psychiatry at the Medical School at Brown University.

Dr Brewer has developed and tested novel mindfulness programs for behaviour change, including both in-person and app-based treatments for smoking, emotional eating and anxiety. He has also studied the underlying neural mechanisms of mindfulness using standard and real-time fMRI, and source-estimated EEG, and is currently translating these findings into clinical use.

He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, presented to the US President’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, foreign Parliaments, trained US Olympic athletes and coaches and foreign government ministers, and has been featured on 60 minutes, at TED (4th most viewed talk of 2016 with more than 16 million views), in The New York Times, Time magazine (top 100 new health discoveries of 2013), Forbes, Businessweek, NPR, National Geographic and the BBC, among others.

He is the author of  The Craving Mind: from Cigarettes to Smartphones to Love, Why We Get Hooked and How We Can Break Bad Habits  (2017) and Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind (2021).

Dr Sara Lazar

Sara W. Lazar, PhD, is an Associate Researcher in the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Assistant Professor in Psychology at Harvard Medical School. The focus of her research is to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying the beneficial effects of yoga and meditation, both in clinical settings and in healthy individuals.

She is a contributing author to Meditation and Psychotherapy (Guilford Press). She has been practising yoga and mindfulness meditation since 1994. Her research has been covered by numerous news outlets, including The New York Times, USA Today, CNN and WebMD, and her work has been featured in a display at the Boston Museum of Science.

Dr Ronald Siegel

Dr. Ronald D. Siegel is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, part time, at Harvard Medical School, where he has taught for over 35 years. He is a long-time student of mindfulness meditation and serves on the Board of Directors and faculty of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. He teaches internationally about the application of mindfulness practice in psychotherapy and other fields, and maintains a private clinical practice in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Dr David Treleavan

David Treleaven, PhD, is a writer, educator, and trauma professional working at the intersection of mindfulness and trauma. He is the author of the acclaimed book Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness and founder of the Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (TSM) Community—a group of practitioners committed to setting a standard of care through mindfulness-based practices, interventions, and programs.

David focuses on offering mindfulness providers with the knowledge and tools they require to meet the needs of those struggling with trauma. Through workshops, keynotes, podcasts, and online education, he is closely engaged with current empirical research to inform best practices.

His work has been adopted into multiple mindfulness teacher training programs around the world, including UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, the Engaged Mindfulness Institute, and Bangor University’s MA in Mindfulness program in the UK.

[Brahm Centre Trainer] Christopher Willar

Dr Christopher Willard

Dr. Christopher Willard, PsyD, is a psychologist and educational consultant based in Boston, specialising in mindfulness for adolescents and young adults. He has been practising meditation for more than 20 years and is a sought-after speaker, presenting at TEDx conferences and leading workshops internationally.

Dr. Willard published three books; Child’s Mind (2010), Growing Up Mindful (2016), and Raising Resilience (2017), and co-authored eight other books for parents, professionals and children, along with six sets of cards and therapeutic games, available in more than 10 languages. His thoughts have also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, mindful.org and elsewhere. He teaches at Harvard Medical School and Wesleyan University.

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