• Aims to set up a private practice that employs deep listening in a psychodynamic way and to employ spiritual/religious resources of clients for integration and the promoting of good mental health.
• Aims to supervise and train care givers, care workers and care professionals in active listening for their self-development and the building of self-resilience to care for their care recipients.

2011 – 2023

• Appointed to chaplaincy work at St Andrew’s Community Services.
• Qualified as a trained counsellor with Monash University.
• Trained in Clinical Pastoral Education.
• Trained to be a supervisor in Clinical Pastoral Education.
• Trained and supervise staff from churches, hospital, social workers and pastors.
• Appointed as a Lead Chaplain to Psychiatric Rehabilitation Cluster.
• Constructed Chaplaincy Model of Care to trains churches with psychiatric community work.
• Started to focus on psychiatric rehab work with patients who have religious and spiritual experiences.
• Came under local psychoanalyst during these 12 years.
• Gave a talk on mental health at an annual mental health conference.
• Resigned from the organization in September 2023.

Key Achievements

• Constructed a model of Chaplaincy Care to educate and train parishioners and pastors to employ relational and active listening skills.
• Promote psychospiritual approach and interpretation of experiences of people in their religious and spiritual milieus.

2009 – 2010

• Travelled to UK for continuing education and work in a largely Chinese community of migrant workers.

2002 – 2008

• Appointed as a chaplain to kindergartens and a mission school.
• Providing advice and counsel as a chairman to the kindergartens and as a board member to a mission school.
• Moved the church out of site due to massive reconstruction of the land.
• Worked collaboratively and consultatively with 10-12 stakeholders for the redevelopment of the land.
• Encouraged donors and loaners to raise $4 million Singapore dollars to retrofit the church.

Key Achievements

• Raised $4-5 million Singapore dollars through 250 earning members and returned all the money back to members within 1-2 years after reconstruction.
• Enabling a kindergarten to earn about $1 million.
• Awarded by the Ministry of Education for my work with the schools.

2001

• A brief one year to participate in an outreach to the needy.

Key Achievements

• Contributed towards the centre being awarded a special cluster centre by the government.

1999 – 2000

• Resumed a one- year study in the UK at University of Bristol.
• Conducted night topical classes for working adults in the Bristol area.

Key Achievements

• Gave an Asian perspective as a lecturer to students in the evening classes.

1992 – 1998

• As a new staff member learning the robes in three different churches.
• Learning from the fellow colleagues the expansive outreaches of the mission schools and kindergartens to the community through some community projects.
• Listening to and reaching out to students, their parents, teachers.
• Working with stakeholders such as MOE schools and boarding house and Old Boys’ Association in the same vicinity.

Key Achievements

• Travelled to the UK to bring Alpha Course from the Holy Trinity, Brompton to Singapore.
• Flew in Nicky Gumbel and Sandy Miller to Singapore to introduce and promote the Alpha Course nationally and across denominations.
• Contributed to the setting up of an Alpha National Office in Singapore.