Adj. A/Prof Chew is the Founder and CEO of Brahm Centre, a charity with over 50 staff, dedicated to promoting healthier and happier living. In recognition of her contributions in the mental health space, she was named The Straits Times Singaporean of Year 2019.
She is the first certified Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher in Singapore by Brown University-University of Massachusetts, a certified Dot-b and Paws b mindfulness teacher and a Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy Course teacher under Oxford University Mindfulness Centre’s training.
She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of mindfulness at the National University of Singapore. She has taught mindfulness courses, workshops and retreats to more than 10,000 people across all ages.
Her corporate clients extend across various industry sectors – from healthcare (Ministry of Health, National Health Group, SingHealth, Institute of Mental Health, Agency for Integrated Health, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Community Psychology Hub), education institutions (Ministry of Education, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Hwa Chong Institution, Raffles Institution, Nanyang Girls Secondary, St Anthony’s Canossian Secondary School ) to finance (DBS Bank, OCBC Bank, Bank of Singapore and Goldman Sachs) just to name a few.
Prior to her founding of the Brahm Centre in 2012, she served in senior positions at Singapore Airlines, Visa International, Accenture, Hewlett Packard and government agencies.
Mr Eric Lim spearheads Brahm Centre’s curriculum development and research on mindfulness. He has delivered over 200 mindfulness courses, talks and workshops to over 6000 individuals who span across ages (young children, teenagers, young adults, working adults, elderly) and professions from education, government, financial and social service sectors. He is the second in Singapore to be a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Teacher, conferred by the Mindfulness Center at Brown University School of Public Health, in collaboration with UMASS Memorial Health Care’s Center for Mindfulness. He is also a certified .b and Paws b teacher from the Mindfulness in Schools Project (UK), and a MOE-registered instructor. In 2017, Mr Lim was awarded the Young Model Caregiver (Merit) Award by AWWA as well as a Social and Health Manpower Development Programme Fellowship by the Ministry of Health.
Lily graduated with a Master of Social Science (Counselling & Psychotherapy) from Edith Cowen University, Australia, in 2011. Lily provided pro-bono counselling services in the local community, such as THK Family Service Centre and our centre, before joining us as a counsellor. She has ample experience counselling clients, especially those experiencing anxiety and depression symptoms.
Lily is also a mindfulness trainer. She has been practising mindfulness since 2015. She teachers our centre’s Mindfulness Foundation Course in both English and Chinese languages. Lily applies mindfulness as an essential modality in her counselling sessions.
Weena Chua is a Brahm Centre certified mindfulness trainer after having completed the mindfulness curriculum at Brahm Centre and Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn’s mindfulness retreat in New York over a period of 2 years. She conducts mindfulness workshops and the weekly Mindfulness Club sessions. She is a cancer survivor who benefited from incorporating mindfulness into her daily life in managing her illness and work life stress. She graduated from the Singapore Institute of Management and has 30 years of working experience. She also serves as a volunteer befriender to elderly with dementia.
