Personal Leadership: Building Self-Awareness

Understanding ourselves is a necessary first step to thrive in today's dynamic and competitive landscape. Whether you are striving for career progression, seeking fulfilment in your personal pursuits, or navigating the intricacies of independent living, self-awareness serves as the compass guiding you toward your aspirations.

In this workshop, gain a deeper insight into your unique strengths and needs, and learn a set of tools and strategies that support you in reaching your professional and personal goals.

This workshop is designed for adults on the autism spectrum who:

• Want to gain a deeper understanding of themselves
• Want to take steps towards upgrading their personal leadership skills
• Want to improve their independent living and employment outcomes through deeper self-awareness and improved personal leadership

Topics:

• Understanding the different worlds of language and communication
• Leveraging on routines and developing flexibility
• Sensory & Regulation
• Disclosure and Self-advocacy

• Increase awareness of their strengths and challenges in relation to their autism diagnosis
• Be aware of some tools and strategies to support their own development in career and independent living

• Currently in employment or actively seeking for employment
• Able to learn in a classroom setting with other learners
• Able to follow group instructions
• Able to request for help when needed

In-Person
Autism Resource Centre (Singapore)
5 Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10, Singapore 569739

Minimum number of 8 learners required to start a class.

Persons on the Autism Spectrum

Full fee: S$333.00 per participant
After Grant: *S$42.77 per participant
*Balance fees claimable using SkillsFuture Credits or Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA)

(inclusive of GST and handout materials)

SG Enable Training Grant:

• Applicable for Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents aged 16 years and above.
• Not pursuing full-time education or enrolled in any government or Special Education school.
• Course fee funding is only available for eligible persons with disabilities.
• The disabilities supported are: physical disability, sensory disability, intellectual disability and developmental disability.
• Registered as a Person with Disability (PWD) with SG Enable.
• Must attend all training sessions.

ARC(S) will follow up with an email to request for the following documents:

• Letter of Undertaking ⬅ click to download
• Proof of Disability:
• Persons with Disability Concession Card.
• Proof of membership with a disability Social Service Agency (SSA).
• SPED School leaving/graduating certificate.
• A doctor's memo certifying permanent disability.

SkillsFuture Credit:

• For all Singaporeans aged 25 years and above.
• S$500 opening SkillsFuture Credit does not expire.
• A one-time top-up of $500 was provided to those aged 25 and above in 2020. This top-up will expire at the end of 2025.

Post-Secondary Education Account (PSEA)

• A PSEA account will be opened for Singapore Citizens who have a balance in either their:
• Child Development Account (CDA) in the year they turn 13 years old.
• Edusave Account in the year they turn 17 years old, or no longer studying in an MOE-funded school, whichever is later.
• The account holder's PSEA will be closed around the middle of the year in which they turn 31.