Supporting the Marymount community
Join us as a volunteer peer support facilitator to support the mental well-being of the Marymount Community
Register your interest by 14 July 2024. More information and the next steps will be shared upon registration.
What does it mean to be a facilitator for mental well-being?
Facilitators help to provide peer support to support mental well-being. In order to do so, we equip you with the necessary skills, including: mental health literacy, self-compassion, deep listening, and group facilitation.
The safety of our facilitators and participants is our priority. Led by this guiding principle, we ensure that facilitators have the skillset and capacity to hold space for others, and are adequately supported throughout their volunteering experience.
All our facilitators undergo a facilitator training programme and have to pass a final assessment to ascertain their readiness to become a facilitator.
Facilitators will also be mentored to start and run a peer support programme to support their local community at Marymount.
What to expect?
1. Training
Wed, 31 Jul and 14 Aug, 7:30pm - 9:30pm | Virtual
Sat, 17 Aug, 2pm - 5:30pm | In-person at Marymount Community Club
Training is a combination of self-paced learning and live sessions. To complete the full certification programme, you’ll need to:
Attend min. 1 of 2 virtual training sessions
Attend 1 in-person training session
Complete all the self-paced exercises
2. Programme Formation & Facilitation
Ongoing basis
Facilitators who pass the training programme will be mentored to start and run a peer support programme for the Marymount community. Facilitators will also be invited to support the Calm Circles programme.
Hybrid Training Programme
SELF-PACED LEARNING
Curated training videos and reflection exercises that have been co-created with mental health professionals and persons with lived experience.
LIVE TRAINING
Practise skills in role-play exercises simulating real-life scenarios and engage in Q&A sessions to deepen understanding.
INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT
The safety of our facilitators and their communities is important. We ensure that facilitators are ready to hold space for others through personal check-ins.
Equip your team and communities with the following skills to create a safe & non-judgemental space for mental health conversations
Peer support skills covered
Mental health literacy
Feel empowered in the role you can play in communities as peer supporters and increase mental health literacy
Self-care and self-compassion
Be equipped with the knowledge and skills to understand and regulate emotions through self-compassion and self-care
Deep listening
Be equipped with different deep listening skills and how to maintain presence during sensitive topics
Group facilitation
Be equipped with knowledge and skills to set limits, increase group cohesion and address sensitive scenarios in a group setting
Learn from mental health professionals
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Dr Syed Harun Alhabsyi
Consultant Psychiatrist
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Dr Karen Pooh
Clinical Psychologist
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Joshua Tan
Art Psychotherapist
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Shi Min Liew
Clinical Psychologist
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The training entails modules such as self-care and self-compassion, mental health literacy, deep listening and group facilitation.
You can expect to learn through training videos, activities and reflection exercises at your own pace. Additionally, you will learn to apply what you’ve learnt through experiential practice and role play during the in-person training sessions.
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Yes, you will receive a certificate if you have completed all 4 training modules and attended 80% of the in-person training sessions.
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We will be looking out for individuals who embody our Calm Circles agreements, have self-awareness, a growth mindset and are confident communicators.
Facilitators would benefit from the experience by learning transferable skills and gaining experience that they may bring into their daily interactions and communities that they are a part of.
Our facilitators have reported that they’ve experienced deeper conversations and improved relationships!
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Your training outcome will be notified by Mid-September upon passing a post-training assessment.
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It depends on the peer support programme that your community of volunteers choose to create for the Marymount community.
Facilitators will have the option to volunteer for Calm Collective’s peer support programme, Calm Circles. Virtual sessions are held 2x a month, and occasionally in-person.
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Calm Circles welcomes anyone from the age of 18 and above. The majority of our participants are in their 20s - 30s, and based in Singapore. In virtual sessions, we welcome people from around the world.
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Volunteer facilitators will not receive any form of allowance as participation is on a voluntary basis.
