Singapore Positive Education Network

Empowering the Youths of Tomorrow to Lead Flourishing Lives

Upcoming Events

PosEd Summit

Towards Positive Education: The Heart of Teaching and Learning

2 - 3 June 2022

A Virtual Event

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Launch of Singapore Positive Education Network 26 July 2018

“Even as our students did well in PISA and TIMSS, we must do just as well in taking care of their welfare and overall holistic development. Education is for life and positive education lasts for a lifetime."

- Ms Low Yen Ling, then Senior Parliamentary Secretary of Ministry of Education and Ministry of Manpower and Mayor of South West District; presently Minister of State for Culture, Community & Youth, and Trade & Industry”

Singapore Positive Education Network

Empowering the Youths of Tomorrow to Lead Flourishing Lives

Upcoming Events
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Empowering
‍Youths of Tomorrow to Lead Flourishing Lives

The Singapore Positive Education Network (SPEN) is a group of educators, parents, researchers, and other community members committed to advancing the cause of positive education. SPEN upholds the importance of applying the principles of positive psychology in school settings to foster students’ character, well-being and flourishing. Its key goals include supporting collaboration, sharing effective practices and fostering learning to advance positive education in Singapore and beyond.

Empowering
‍Youths of Tomorrow to Lead Flourishing Lives

The Singapore Positive Education Network (SPEN) is a group of educators, parents, researchers, and other community members committed to advancing the cause of positive education. SPEN upholds the importance of applying the principles of positive psychology in school settings to foster students’ character, well-being and flourishing. Its key goals include supporting collaboration, sharing effective practices and fostering learning to advance positive education in Singapore and beyond. Its key goals include supporting collaboration, sharing effective practices and fostering learning to advance positive education in Singapore and beyond.

SPEN Chairman's Message

“Ubuntu” is a South African word that connotes humanity. Africans embrace it as a way of life and Nelson Mandela, who led his nation to freedom and equality in a post-apartheid South Africa undergirded the revolution using “ubuntu” as a philosophy. It encompasses all our aspirations about how to live life well and how to treat ourselves and other people with the dignity they deserve, regardless of race, creed or colour. It embraces our differences and celebrates them. “Ubuntu”, with all its cultural connotations of living well and living positively is for me, a mantra for Positive Education, and all that we seek to do at SPEN.

Positive Education is the application of the science of positive psychology and related fields within an educational setting to help students, staff, schools, universities, corporations and communities to flourish. SPEN’s focus is on enhancing well-being and strength of character through the teaching and practice of specific skills within a learning ecosystem. Within the work setting, we want to grow responsible leaders who work towards staff engagement and growth through attention to care, agency, mindfulness as well as purposeful and meaningful work.

SPEN is aspirational. No matter if you are an educator, parent or member of the community in a school, polytechnic, university, private institution or organisation, please join hands with us. From Singapore, we hope to share best practices, research, stories and resources so that all in the region can benefit from the collective wisdom of Positive Education practitioners and teachers around the world. Let’s inspire each other to action, so that we can bring about thriving communities that positively impact our world and enhance our common humanity.
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Lim Lai Cheng (Dr)
Chairman, Singapore Positive Education Network
Featured Event:
Date:
24 Aug 2022

Peer Support

Join this workshop if you would like to learn the skills that you can use to introduce peer support in your school.

Participants will:

  • Understand more about the CHEERS model for Peer Support
  • Learn practical skills and mindsets they need to have to empathise and support their students
  • Be able to teach their students how to support each other using the CHEERS model
Register Now
Peer Support
Featured Event:
Date:
24 Aug 2022

Peer Support

Join this workshop if you would like to learn the skills that you can use to introduce peer support in your school.

Participants will:

  • Understand more about the CHEERS model for Peer Support
  • Learn practical skills and mindsets they need to have to empathise and support their students
  • Be able to teach their students how to support each other using the CHEERS model
Register Now
Featured Event:
Date:
9 Sep 2022

Positive Discipline by Yeo Sha En

In order to empower young people to shift their behaviour, we first form a relationship and then empower them to take responsbility for their actions in a respectful, kind and firm way.

Participants will:

  • Understand the 5 criteria of Positive Discipline
  • Understand the mistaken goals of student behaviour
  • Learn practical and effective tools to discipline more positively in their department and across the levels
Register Now
Positive Discipline by Yeo Sha En
Featured Event:
Date:
9 Sep 2022

Positive Discipline by Yeo Sha En

In order to empower young people to shift their behaviour, we first form a relationship and then empower them to take responsbility for their actions in a respectful, kind and firm way.

Participants will:

  • Understand the 5 criteria of Positive Discipline
  • Understand the mistaken goals of student behaviour
  • Learn practical and effective tools to discipline more positively in their department and across the levels
Register Now
Featured Event:
Date:
2 Nov 2022

Nourish to Flourish: Self-care for Teachers

Join this workshop if you would like to learn how to better manage your stress, increase your energy and show up as your best.

Participants will:

  • Learn about the importance of taking care of themselves (self-care)
  • Explore the self-compassion framework, including mindfulness, common humanity and self-kindness
  • Learn practical and effective strategies to take better care of themselves
Register Now
Nourish to Flourish: Self-care for Teachers
Featured Event:
Date:
2 Nov 2022

Nourish to Flourish: Self-care for Teachers

Join this workshop if you would like to learn how to better manage your stress, increase your energy and show up as your best.

Participants will:

  • Learn about the importance of taking care of themselves (self-care)
  • Explore the self-compassion framework, including mindfulness, common humanity and self-kindness
  • Learn practical and effective strategies to take better care of themselves
Register Now
Featured Event:
Date:
16 Sep 2022

From Positive Education to Wellbeing Literacy

With the popularity and growing evidence base of positive psychology, positive education has emerged as an initiative to enable students to learn the skills of wellbeing - how to feel good, function well and do good. This is alongside other approaches of wellbeing education, including social and emotional learning, and the recent recognition by UNESCO, that human flourishing should be a primary aim of education. Professor Lindsay Oades and his team at the University of Melbourne, Australia, have developed the concept of wellbeing literacy - how we communicate about and for wellbeing.

Register Now
From Positive Education to Wellbeing Literacy
Featured Event:
Date:
16 Sep 2022

From Positive Education to Wellbeing Literacy

With the popularity and growing evidence base of positive psychology, positive education has emerged as an initiative to enable students to learn the skills of wellbeing - how to feel good, function well and do good. This is alongside other approaches of wellbeing education, including social and emotional learning, and the recent recognition by UNESCO, that human flourishing should be a primary aim of education. Professor Lindsay Oades and his team at the University of Melbourne, Australia, have developed the concept of wellbeing literacy - how we communicate about and for wellbeing.

Register Now
Featured Event:
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Featured Event:
Date:
2 Nov 2022

Nourish to Flourish: Self-care for Teachers

Join this workshop if you would like to learn how to better manage your stress, increase your energy and show up as your best.

Participants will:

  • Learn about the importance of taking care of themselves (self-care)
  • Explore the self-compassion framework, including mindfulness, common humanity and self-kindness
  • Learn practical and effective strategies to take better care of themselves
Register Now

Video Blogs

Positive Parenting Growing Thriving Learners Together (Sharon Siew)

Positive Parenting Mindful Communication (Rezia Rahumathullah)

Weaving Joy: Building Resilience in Young Children (Joyce Ang)

Social Emotional Learning at Westwood Primary (by Low Min Chye)

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Latest Articles

Insight
Pursuing Wholeness
As we look forward to a new school year, my heart is filled with both gratitude and wonder, and a strong sense of pride at the many accomplishments and impact our schools are making in our community.
5 January 2022
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Feature
False Dichotomies In Positive Psychology and How Chinese Philosophy May Help
False dichotomies are evident in conversations around happiness and the good life. “Do I want to be an optimist OR a pessimist?”, “Should I focus on my strengths OR weaknesses?”, “Must I pursue happiness for others OR can I pursue happiness for myself?”. To address such questions, one can consider anchoring on key tenets in the Chinese tradition and applying the science of well-being to take pragmatic steps towards flourishing.
16 November 2021
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Respectful Parenting - what it looks like in Practice
As teachers, we are constantly aiming to build and nurture trusting and honest relationships with parents and children. Together as invested stakeholders in children’s development and learning journey we are able to unpack respectful parenting techniques and strategies that support both parent and child needs with transparency and honesty.
21 October 2021
Read More >
Insight
Pursuing Wholeness
As we look forward to a new school year, my heart is filled with both gratitude and wonder, and a strong sense of pride at the many accomplishments and impact our schools are making in our community.
5 January 2022
Read More >
Feature
False Dichotomies In Positive Psychology and How Chinese Philosophy May Help
False dichotomies are evident in conversations around happiness and the good life. “Do I want to be an optimist OR a pessimist?”, “Should I focus on my strengths OR weaknesses?”, “Must I pursue happiness for others OR can I pursue happiness for myself?”. To address such questions, one can consider anchoring on key tenets in the Chinese tradition and applying the science of well-being to take pragmatic steps towards flourishing.
16 November 2021
Read More >
feature
Respectful Parenting - what it looks like in Practice
As teachers, we are constantly aiming to build and nurture trusting and honest relationships with parents and children. Together as invested stakeholders in children’s development and learning journey we are able to unpack respectful parenting techniques and strategies that support both parent and child needs with transparency and honesty.
21 October 2021
Read More >
feature
Northbrooks Secondary School PE Department Resilience Program
In 2020, the Northbrooks Secondary School Physical Education (PE) department collaborated with The Positive Movement on a yearlong project to study on the effects of Positive Psychology Interventions (PPI) on students’ levels of emotional awareness and ability to work with their emotions.
11 October 2021
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International Positive Education Network
Positive Education Schools Association
European Positive Education Network
US-IPEN
IPEN Middle East & North Africa
IPEN Latin America

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