Robin Lefever

Singapore

Singapore talks

Four sessions on menopause, trauma, culture, rapid change, addiction, and workplace mental health.

Talk 1 | Jun 29, 2026 | 08:00–09:15

Menopause and the mental health crisis nobody talks about

How medicine and organisations have failed women's neurological and psychiatric symptoms, and what leaders need to understand now.

  • Mood dysregulation, cognitive symptoms, anxiety, and depression in perimenopause.
  • The HRT rehabilitation story and recent NICE guidance changes.
  • What genuine organisational support looks like in policy, culture, and line management.
  • Why retaining menopausal women is a leadership and commercial issue.
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Talk 2 | Jun 30, 2026 | 09:30–11:00

Mental health, culture and the breaking point of rapid change

How rapid social change, weakened support structures, and modern work pressures are reshaping mental health across cultures.

  • The true scale of global mental health problems and why official figures undercount them.
  • What traditional cultures protect, and where stigma and silence cause harm.
  • Why young workers can be caught between Western freedoms and weakened traditional safety nets.
  • What social connection, collective obligation, and values such as ubuntu still get right.
  • Interactive roleplay and discussion throughout.
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Talk 3 | Jun 30, 2026 | 11:15–12:15

Addiction: The hidden epidemic and the courage to talk about it

Addiction as a brain disease, the harm caused by moral failure narratives, and how leaders can help people seek treatment sooner.

  • The neuroscience and genetics of addiction.
  • Why high-achieving women are often under-identified.
  • How cultural and religious stigma can deepen silence and delay treatment.
  • What recovery looks like and why language, policy, and personal example matter.
  • Open facilitated discussion across the cultural contexts in the room.
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Talk 4 | Jun 30, 2026 | 13:30–15:00

Understanding trauma and why it matters: An introduction to treatment

What trauma is, how it appears in a workforce, and why treatment often needs body-based and parts-based approaches as well as talk.

  • Why CBT alone can fall short for trauma.
  • An overview of EMDR, IFS, and somatic therapies.
  • How trauma can show up as absenteeism, conflict, underperformance, and burnout.
  • What leaders can do to create safer, more responsive workplaces.
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Tools

Self-guided questionnaires

Two questionnaires you can complete in the browser to explore the themes from these talks. They are for information and reflection only, not a diagnosis. Everything is scored on your own device – nothing is stored by this website or sent anywhere.

Schemas and unmet needs

MSS v1.4 questionnaire

The Maladaptive Schema Scale: 108 items mapping schema scores, childhood unmet-needs clusters, and focus categories, with a visual report.

Open MSS questionnaire

Addictive and compulsive behaviours

SPQ addiction questionnaire

The Shorter PROMIS Questionnaire: 160 items screening sixteen areas from alcohol and drugs to work, food, and relationships, scored against normative thresholds.

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Supporting materials

Exercises and extras

Short pieces I may bring into the talks depending on time. They also stand on their own to read or work through afterwards.

Exercise

Attachment theory

How early bonds shape how we love: a short introduction to attachment styles and what they mean for relationships and the workplace.

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Exercise

Internal Family Systems

No bad parts: a short tour of the IFS model of the mind and a chance to try a guided parts exercise.

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Exercise

Family intervention

Helping families help their loved one: the Johnson, ARISE, and CRAFT approaches explained, plus a practical exercises handout you can read or print – the Johnson letter, the ARISE sequence, and CRAFT techniques.

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Exercise

Somatic experiencing

A gentle introduction to listening to the body's own language of healing: the nervous system, titration, pendulation, and a live exercise.

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Exercise

EMDR

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing: a short introduction to how it works, and a small, safe taste of it.

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Guide

Know your patterns

A leader's practical guide to the Maladaptive Schema Scale (MSS): using psychological self-awareness to lead authentically and support your team's wellbeing.

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Session

Artificial intelligence

A continuing-professional-development session on AI: from the long arc of human revolutions to AI and cognition, and what it means for how we think and work.

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