Raising Resilient Children | OTRFSep2025
Wellbeing Champion Festival Series | AIM x OTR x EveryChild.SG x Praxium x Remarkable Women Asia x SPEAK x Think Kids
Wellbeing Champion Festival Series is a wellness initiative in celebration of World Mental Health Month comprising multiple workshops and webinars, each hosted on separate event pages.
To participate, please register individually for each session. Some events are co-hosted with our partner, Over-The-Rainbow (OTR) and by clicking on the respective link, you will be brought to another site.
This World Mental Health Day let’s come together to prioritise what truly matters — our mental wellbeing.
Join us as we celebrate self-care, connection, and emotional resilience. In the lead-up to the day, we're bringing back our most popular workshops throughout September and October, offered in a variety of formats and platforms to suit your needs.
Whether you're looking to reconnect with yourself, engage meaningfully with others, or simply take a much-needed pause — there’s something here for you.
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, 10 September 2025
Time: 12:30pm - 2:00pm
Mode: Online via Zoom
Synopsis
September 10 is World Suicide Prevention Day. Youth mental health issues have been on the rise, well before the onset of the pandemic, and continues unabated.
Data shows that:
> 50% youths (globally) were adversely impacted by the pandemic;
One in three young people in Singapore exhibit symptoms of mental health issues (up from 1 in 5 back in 2017, a huge jump largely due to the impact of the pandemic);
Nearly 60 per cent of youths in a Talking Point survey considered themselves lonely. Pervasive feeling of emptiness and loneliness inside. Loneliness is a major killer in modern society;
As much 27% of youths in Singapore harbor suicidal thoughts; more and more young people are engaging in self harm;
Suicide is the leading cause of death among young people age 10-29;
Many are pursuing lives and dreams that are not their own; we have addictions of all kinds - devices, social media, an always on instant gratification environment;
For many, life increasingly feels like a treadmill that they can’t get off, while others experience a growing sense of loneliness, isolation and disconnect despite living in an age of digital super-connectivity.
As parents and as a society, we find ourselves living in such a complex and volatile world - social media, rising cost of living, climate anxiety, polarized geopolitical situation, the pervasiveness of technology and the rapid encroachment of AI in every facet of our lives. Raising a child is becoming an increasingly more challenging task is an understatement. With the rising rate of youth mental health issues and youth suicides, more and more parents are at a loss of what they need to do as their children grow into teenagers and young adults.
And too often for young people, following your heart is deemed impractical by society, whereas it’s often exactly what leads to success and fulfillment - ever more important in the age of AI.
Asst. Prof. Cheung Hoi Shan
at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University
Dr. Cheung works at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. She began her research in 2004 at Singapore Children’s Society, focusing on parenting and child development. Majoring in her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from NUS in 2014, she studied parental sensitivity and its impact on preschoolers’ peer relationships through attachment theory. She continued her research where she explored attachment theory in contexts like school bullying as a postdoctoral fellow at NUS and a visiting scholar at Purdue University. Currently, her research examines the role of parenting practices in Asia and how they influence and impact children’s self-regulation and well-being.
Karen Tok
Inspirational Speaker | Startup Mentor and Founder of an award-winning biotechnology recruitment firm, ScienTec Consulting Pte. Ltd.
A highly dynamic individual and forward-thinking business leader, Karen was nominated for the Great Woman of Our Times Award 2018 by Woman’s Weekly Magazine and a recipient of the merit award for the Shell LiveWire Young Business Start-up Award 2005. Her entrepreneurial success story was featured in many media outlets including The Straits Times, Her World, Forward – Shell LiveWire’s book on entrepreneurship, 938Live Money FM 89.3, to name a few.
Karen is a visionary self-starter who attained outstanding entrepreneurial success despite being written off as an academic no-hoper with a learning disability.
She is inspired by opportunity, motivated by adversity and passionate about start-ups and helping others turn desperation into inspiration. She believes that with the right tools and right resources, anyone can achieve their life goals.
Khoo Kee Suen
Intern at Over-The-Rainbow
Kee Suen is an intern with Over-The-Rainbow, who graduated from St. Joseph's Institution in the IB diploma programme, where he also served for 8 years in the Scout Movement. He is entering his sophomore year at the University of Cambridge, pursuing a BA in Psychological and Behavioural Sciences.
As an empathetic soul, it greatly worried him to see the mental distress experienced by many of his peers through conversations and the many gaps that persist in providing support for the youth. Following his own challenges with mental health, he sees the urgent need for destigmatisation, non-discrimination and patient understanding and support to help those in recovery see hope and believe in achieving their fullest potential.
Louis Puah
Founder of Praxium & Crater
Louis has been a passionate advocate for educational transformation since 2015, spearheading meaningful change through his social enterprises, Praxium and Crater. As a certified career coach, Louis has dedicated himself to empowering youth to uncover their passions, define their purpose, and navigate their own choice of unique paths toward fulfilling educational and career journeys.
Louis's approach combines deep empathy with actionable guidance, helping young people not only dream big but also take concrete steps toward achieving their aspirations. With a steadfast belief that every individual has the potential to pursue a life of meaning and purpose, Louis inspires and empowers young minds with the agency to become changemakers in their own lives and communities.
Committed to the idea that collective effort drives positive social impact, Louis partners with educators, parents, and industry leaders to bridge the gap between academic learning and the real-world challenges of tomorrow. His work resonates with anyone who shares the vision of equipping the next generation with the tools, creative confidence, and clarity to thrive in an ever-changing world.
Michelle Choy
Occupational Therapist | Parent Coach and International Certified Professional Trainer, IPMA (U.K.) | Founder of SPEAK
Michelle Choy is a mum of 6 kids aged 10-24, an Occupational Therapist, Parent Coach and International Certified Professional Trainer, IPMA (U.K.). She was honoured to be one of Singapore’s 40-over-40 inspiring women 2021, with the award presented by Ms Sun Xue Ling, Minister of State, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Social and Family Development. She is a firm believer in giving children a happy and stress-free childhood, eschewing the academic rat race, and is Founder of The Little Executive, equipping children with resilience and executive function skills. She is one of Singapore’s Top Parenting Experts and is a sought-after speaker specialising in Parenting and Education talks.
Pamela See
Educational and Developmental Psychologist | Co-Founder of Think Psychological Services and Think Kids
Pamela has extensive experience working with children with autism and other learning difficulties in Australia and Singapore. She is trained in designing behavioural programs in all areas of development, education and behaviour. In addition, she is certified to administer a wide range of psychometric assessments for children such as Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS), Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADI-R), Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals, Stanford Binet, WISC and various other abilities tests. She regularly conducts workshops for both parents and teachers on topics such as challenging behaviours and managing students with learning and developmental difficulties.
Yen-Lu Chow
Co-founder and Executive Chairman of WholeTree Limited and its mental wellness initiative Over-The-Rainbow (OTR) | Founding Executive Chairman of Asia Institute of Mentoring (AIM) | Founding Partner Fatfish MediaLab | Founding Executive Mentor of Young Sustainable Impact Southeast Asia (YSI SEA) | Founder of the Deep Human Movement
Yen-Lu Chow is an award-winning entrepreneur, technologist, venture catalyst & angel investor, mentor & advisor turned author & keynote speaker, mental wellbeing champion, social innovator, philanthropist & humanist, student of spirituality & seeker of Truth.
He sits at the nexus of three major social ecosystems: mental health, mentoring and sustainability, bringing extensive experience in tech and entrepreneurship to build ecosystems and mobilize communities to create positive social change. In a fast-paced world where the only constant is change, he believes there is an urgent need for each of us to draw on our strengths and creative potential as human beings to contribute towards humanity in a positive and impactful way. He enjoys building ecosystems and mobilizing the community to create positive social change. With the launch of his family foundation and other social impact initiatives, Yen-Lu devotes his time serving both society and the nation in his various capacities.
And with Deep Human, he wants to make ancient wisdom available and accessible to modern life - a way of being that connects us back to the Source and brings us closer to the Humanity that we aspire (and need) to be - to a time and place where our planet was not merely seen as free resources to be exploited for selfish gains and endless human greed, without consideration for the greater good – where conscious consumption replaces hyper consumption – where collective consciousness replaces individual thinking – where we live as one, in harmony and in unity with our environment, our planet and with one another.
He is on a life mission to help bring about a kinder, gentler, more inclusive, more just, and sustainable world.
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