From Frustration to Connection Workshop

Frustrated That You Keep Repeating Yourself — and Your Child Still Isn’t Listening?

In 2.5 hours, learn the method that helps parents stop reacting on autopilot and start getting through to their child — even in the hardest moments.

Event Details

DATE: 24 April 2026, Friday

TIME: 7pm – 9.30pm, 2.5h

VENUE: Lifelong Learning Institute

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S$29 per person (Usual $99)
S$49 for two (Bring a co-parent)

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Parents who’ve applied our method:

“Last week, my son was in a 5-day holiday art class. For the first three days, he didn’t take it seriously — he thought it was just something to kill time. On day three, when I picked him up, his mind was completely somewhere else.

I didn’t scold him. Instead, I said: ‘Wow, this painting is huge. This might be the biggest piece you’ve ever done in your life.’

He said: ‘Yeah, it is.’

I said: ‘A painting this big — we should hang it at home.’

His eyes went wide.

I said: ‘Of course we should hang it. You spent so much time on it, we can’t just throw it away. And it might stay with you for the rest of your life.’

His jaw dropped.

I said: ‘You didn’t realise this mattered so much to you, did you?’

He said: ‘No, Mum. I never thought about it that way.’

For the last two days, his teacher said he was a completely different person. Especially on the final day — he went above and beyond on every detail. The teacher was amazed.

Looking back, I realised: I was using the wisdom coaching approach without even thinking about it. No lecturing. No nagging. I just guided him to find his own motivation.’

— WCI Wisdom Coach & Mother · Applied wisdom coaching with her son

Co-founders with 30+ combined years in wisdom coaching & teaching · Professors at an international institute for applied mind science · Teaching internationally since 2013

What You Walk Away With After 2.5 Hours

This isn’t a talk where someone tells you to “be more patient.” You’ve heard that. It doesn’t help at 8pm on a Tuesday when your child is melting down and you’re already exhausted.

Here’s what you actually get:

Component 1: The Life Movie Metaphor — A New Way to See What’s Really Happening at Home

Right now, your family has a “movie” playing — a pattern of scenes that keep repeating. You say the same things. Your child reacts the same way. You escalate. They shut down. Or you shut down. And it loops.

This isn’t because your child is “difficult.” It’s because every repeated reaction — yours and theirs — is recording footage. And that footage becomes the relationship you live inside.

In this workshop, you’ll learn the Life Movie Metaphor — WCI’s core principle — and see exactly how the pattern works. More importantly, you’ll learn how to stop filming the same painful scenes and start creating different ones.

You’ll walk away understanding: Why the same arguments keep happening — and what’s actually driving the loop underneath the surface.

Component 2: Perspective — How to Read the Moment Instead of Reacting to It

Most parents react to what they think is happening. Your child pushes back — you hear defiance.

They go silent — you read it as disrespect. They cry — you think manipulation.

But what if it’s not defiance? What if it’s overwhelm, exhaustion, frustration, or a child who doesn’t have the words yet?

Perspective is the first of WCI’s three self-mastery skills. It trains you to pause and ask: “What is actually happening here?” — before your autopilot takes over.

You’ll walk away with: The ability to catch yourself before you misread the moment and escalate the wrong problem.

Component 3: Self-Management — How to Stay Calm When You’re Triggered

Here’s what most parenting advice misses: you already know what you should do. Stay calm. Don’t shout. Listen first.

The problem isn’t knowledge. It’s that at 8pm — when you’re tired, your child is defiant, dinner is burning, and your patience is gone — knowledge disappears. You react. Then you feel guilty.

Then you promise yourself you’ll do better next time. Then it happens again.

Self-management is the second self-mastery skill. It’s not about suppressing your emotions. It’s about building the ability to feel the trigger and not let it run the scene.

You’ll walk away with: A practical way to pause, regulate, and choose your response — even when everything in you wants to react.

Component 4: Two Coaching Competencies — Active Listening & Direct Communication

Most parents either talk too much (lecturing, repeating, explaining) or shut down entirely (cold shoulder, walking away, silent treatment). Neither works.

You’ll learn two specific coaching competencies used by professional wisdom coaches:

Active Listening — Not just hearing the words, but understanding what your child is actually telling you underneath the words. This is the skill that makes a child feel safe enough to keep coming to you with the truth.

Direct Communication — Saying what needs to be said clearly, firmly, and without shame. No sugarcoating. No yelling. No guilt trips. Just clarity that your child can actually hear and respond to.

You’ll walk away with: Two specific communication tools you can use in your very next conversation with your child.

Component 5: The Real Shift — From Reacting to Responding

This is not a parenting hacks workshop. It’s not “10 tips to get your child to listen.”

What you’re learning is how to change the pattern underneath the pattern — the way you interpret your child’s behaviour, manage your own emotional response, and communicate in a way that builds trust instead of eroding it.

The real outcome isn’t a quiet child. It’s a connected one. A child who listens because they trust you — not because they fear you.

You’ll walk away with: A different way of showing up as a parent — starting that same evening.

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S$49 for two (Bring a co-parent)

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Honestly — What Happens During Those 2.5 Hours?

We could write polished marketing copy here. But we’d rather just tell you what happens.

You’ll walk into a room with other parents who are dealing with the same thing you are. No pretending everything’s fine. No judgement.

Over 2.5 hours, you’ll learn a core principle, practise two specific skills, and leave with something you can use at home that same night.

It’s not a lecture. It’s not therapy. It’s a practical working session led by experienced wisdom coaches who’ve applied this method with their own children.

This Workshop Is Not for Every Parent.

This is NOT for you if:

You believe you already have parenting figured out and have nothing new to learn.
You’re looking for tricks to make your child obey without question.
Your goal is to control your child and shut situations down — not to connect with them.
You’re not willing to look at your own patterns. This workshop asks you to examine how you show up, not just what your child does wrong.
You want someone to tell you it’s all your child’s fault.

This IS for you if:

You have children aged 8-18 and you’re tired of the same fights, the same nagging, the same guilt cycle.
You were raised with “old-school” methods and you know deep down they’re not working with your child — but you’re not sure what to replace them with.
You’ve read the articles. You’ve tried the tips. You know what you should do — but under pressure, you still react the way you always have.
You’ve had the moment after a shouting match or a shutdown where you thought: “There has to be a better way.”
You don’t want your child to just comply. You want them to trust you enough to come to you with the hard stuff — now and when they’re a teenager.
You’re a working professional, entrepreneur, or solopreneur who doesn’t have time but you can give one evening.

If that sounds like you, this workshop was built for you.

The Problem With “I’ll Deal With It Later”

Right now, it might feel like a homework fight. A meltdown over screen time. A slammed door. A child who rolls their eyes when you talk.

It feels manageable. Annoying, but manageable.

But here’s what the research shows — and what many parents only realise too late:

When the same reactive pattern repeats month after month, it doesn’t stay the same. It escalates.

The Problem With "I'll Deal With It Later"

At age 8, your child learns: “When I struggle, I get pressure, volume, or shame.” They comply — but they don’t learn the lesson. They learn how to avoid the punishment.

By age 12, the damage goes underground. Your child stops bringing you the truth — because truth feels expensive. They stop telling you about the hard things, the mistakes, the fears. You don’t see a crisis. You see a quiet child. But the connection is already thinning.

By age 15, normal teenage independence meets a relationship already built on pressure. Your child doesn’t experience your guidance as help. They experience it as control. So they lie. They withdraw. They stop letting you in.

By 18, the relationship often doesn’t end in one explosion. It ends in silence. Your teenager is polite, functional — and emotionally gone. You get logistics. You don’t get truth.

In Singapore, 1 in 3 youths report symptoms of depression, anxiety, or loneliness. But only about 1 in 10 parents spot it.

That gap — between what your child is carrying and what you can see — grows every time the communication pattern stays broken.

The question is not whether you love your child. Of course you do. The question is: will your child still come to you when it matters most?

That’s what this workshop is actually about. Not obedience. Not discipline. Trust.

S$29. One Evening. A Different Way to Show Up at Home.

Let’s put this in perspective.

S$29 is less than a family dinner at a hawker centre. It’s less than one hour of private tutoring. It’s a fraction of what you’d spend on enrichment classes that teach your child skills — while no one teaches you the skill that determines whether your child actually talks to you in five years.

Introductory pricing:

1 ticket: $29 (usual price $99)
2 tickets: S$49 (usual price $159) — bring your co-parent or a friend who’s been through the same battles

This is WCI’s introductory price as we bring this methodology to Singapore. We’re pricing it so there is genuinely zero financial reason not to try it.

What you’re getting access to:

A framework developed by three co-founders with over 30 combined years of experience in wisdom coaching, where we have taught the principles internationally. This isn’t advice from a parenting blog. This is a structured methodology used to train professional wisdom coaches — adapted specifically for parents.

At S$29, we’re not asking you to take a leap of faith. We’re asking you to give one evening.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT

S$29 per person. Introductory price. Usual price S$99.
S$49 for two (Bring a co-parent)

Can’t make these dates?

Join our waitlist to be notified about future cohorts and program updates.

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Built by Coaches Who’ve Done the Work

Wisdom Coaching International was founded by three professionals who spent years applying these principles — in training programs, in seminars, in events, in coaching, and at home with children.

Kelly Tan — Co-founder, WCI. Senior wisdom teacher for 13 years. Professor at an international institute for applied mind science since 2022. Her clients call her 陈^⼀针 — “one needle, one hit” — because she sees what others miss and doesn’t waste your time.

Jacqueline Ong — Co-founder, WCI. 23 years of corporate leadership in manufacturing and supply chain management across Asia Pacific. Completed all levels of advanced wisdom training. After seeing how the methodology transformed her clients’ results in ways conventional coaching couldn’t, she co-founded WCI to bring it to more people.

Jeannie Zhuang — Co-founder, WCI. Honours degree from the National University of Singapore. Professor at an international institute for applied mind science since 2022. Senior wisdom teacher, teaching internationally since 2018. She doesn’t teach theory she hasn’t lived.

About Wisdom Coaching International

Wisdom Coaching International (WCI) trains trains you to use wisdom coaching—practical coaching competencies grounded in three core self-mastery skills: perspective, self-management, and behavior—to create influence, build trust faster, and create more options for your careers or side practice. Unlike credential-first programs, WCI is competence-first, practical, and built for real-world application.

Questions Parents Ask Before Signing Up

Q. “I’ve been to parenting talks before. How is this different?”
Most parenting talks give you information — tips, techniques, age-stage advice. The problem is: you probably already know what you should do. The gap is doing it under pressure, when you’re tired and triggered. This workshop trains the pattern underneath the pattern — how you interpret, regulate, and respond — not just what to say.

Q. “My child is only 8 / already 18 — is it too early / too late?”
The skills taught in this workshop — perspective, self-management, active listening, direct communication — work across the full 8– 18 range. The earlier you start, the more runway you have. But it’s never too late to change the pattern. The relationship is not sealed.

Q. “Will 2.5 hours really make a difference?”
You won’t transform your entire family dynamic in one evening. But you will leave with a framework and two specific skills you can apply in your very next conversation. Many parents notice a shift within days — not because the child suddenly changed, but because the parent responded differently. And when you respond differently, the scene changes.

Q. “Should both parents attend?”
If possible, yes — and we’ve priced it to make that easy (S$49 for two). When both parents share the same framework and language, the consistency at home accelerates everything. But one parent can absolutely start the shift alone.

Q. “S$29 seems very cheap. What’s the catch?”
No catch. This is our introductory price as we bring this work to Singapore. We want to remove every barrier so the right parents can experience the method. If it works for you — and we believe it will — there are deeper programmes available afterward. But there is zero obligation and zero pressure on the night.

One Evening. One Shift. A Different Movie at Home.

You’ve tried repeating yourself louder. You’ve tried the silent treatment. You’ve tried consequences, bribes, lectures, and “I’ll count to three.”

You already know those aren’t working.

This isn’t about adding another tactic to the pile. It’s about changing the way you show up — so your child stops hearing noise and starts feeling connection.

Most parents are trying harder in the same situation. This workshop helps you change the pattern that keeps recreating the situation.

Your family’s movie is still being filmed. And you still have the director’s chair.