Organizational Development
Charis (she/her) is a Chinese Asian woman based in Singapore and has been a psychotherapist for over 25 years. She has worked with people of diversity and at different stages of life. She is trauma informed and believes in working from a strength based perspective. Working at the depth of individuals and families she has met through her therapeutic practice, she found love in intervening at source or working with interpersonal dynamics. She has a keen interest in exploring paradoxes with people she works with, and believes that it is in the work with dilemmas, tensions and paradoxes that the wisdom and maturity of leaders is then revealed. Building the capacity to sit with who we are and our multi-layered identities and allowing this tension to do its work has become a life’s passion and a distinguishing part of her professional practice.
Besides her clinical practice, in the last 5 years, Charis has taken interest in OD work. She discovered that with her experience in bringing health and wholeness to individuals and families, there is much relevance to expand that to the organisational level. Since then, she has been involved in OD work and finding fulfilment in bringing health to organisations. Learning and holding the Gestalt stance has been very helpful and insightful in this journey. She is currently part of the iGOLD IV cohort. International Gestalt Organizational and Leadership Development (iGoldIV graduate)
In year 2000, she lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland for a year to serve as a volunteer in the social and family sector. While based in Malaysia for nearly 7 years, she was invited to be a columnist for the Malaysia Newspaper The Star, writing on issues related to teens and tweens. Working cross culturally as well as with diversity of government, NGO and institutional facilities, Charis has found comfort and confidence in the reality that each person, regardless of stature in life, is human.
This multi-cultural experience and being in a cross-cultural marriage herself, Charis has wrestled with diversity and inclusion issues first hand. Her passion is to educate people about trauma, the possible pain the diversity can bring and advocate for the importance of self-work and eventually build self-healing communities. She is married with 4 grown up children. In her free time, she loves to rest, learn and be with nature.
Besides her clinical practice, in the last 5 years, Charis has taken interest in OD work. She discovered that with her experience in bringing health and wholeness to individuals and families, there is much relevance to expand that to the organisational level. Since then, she has been involved in OD work and finding fulfilment in bringing health to organisations. Learning and holding the Gestalt stance has been very helpful and insightful in this journey. She is currently part of the iGOLD IV cohort. International Gestalt Organizational and Leadership Development (iGoldIV graduate)
In year 2000, she lived in Belfast, Northern Ireland for a year to serve as a volunteer in the social and family sector. While based in Malaysia for nearly 7 years, she was invited to be a columnist for the Malaysia Newspaper The Star, writing on issues related to teens and tweens. Working cross culturally as well as with diversity of government, NGO and institutional facilities, Charis has found comfort and confidence in the reality that each person, regardless of stature in life, is human.
This multi-cultural experience and being in a cross-cultural marriage herself, Charis has wrestled with diversity and inclusion issues first hand. Her passion is to educate people about trauma, the possible pain the diversity can bring and advocate for the importance of self-work and eventually build self-healing communities. She is married with 4 grown up children. In her free time, she loves to rest, learn and be with nature.