Multi-session courses
Slowing Down
A course on the quiet art of slowing down
for anyone who needs permission to stop, reflect, and take care.
About
Slowing Down is a 4-part course built around a simple premise:
that in a society that rewards busyness, knowing how to pause is one of the most important skills you can develop. Each session explores a different dimension of mental wellbeing — reflection, self-care, mindfulness, and what it means to create space for honest conversation — giving you practical tools to carry into everyday life.
The sessions are modular, so you can join the ones that speak to where you are right now. But they're also connected — each one building on the last, so that participants who attend across the series leave with something more than a toolkit. They leave with a practice
Who this course was designed for
Slowing Down was designed for anyone feeling the weight of a life that moves too fast — regardless of where that weight comes from.
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Young working adults navigating the demands of careers, relationships, and everything in between
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Students carrying the pressure of academic life and an uncertain future
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Anyone at a transition point — between jobs, between chapters, or simply between one version of themselves and the next
If something about the title resonated when you read it, this course was probably made for you.
How Slowing Down Began
Singapore is one of the most fast-paced societies in the world. Most of us have learned to keep up. Fewer of us have learned to slow down.
Slowing Down grew from that tension — and from the personal experiences of two young adults navigating the same hectic landscape as everyone around them. What began as a question — what would it look like to actually care for our mental wellbeing in a society that doesn't make space for it? — became SOAR's very first course.
It was also where SOAR's co-production philosophy took its first breath — pairing people in recovery with mental health professionals to build and facilitate something together. That principle has shaped every course SOAR has run since. Slowing Down didn't just start a course series. It started something bigger.
What this course sets out to do
Slowing Down is designed to give participants something increasingly rare — the time, space, and tools to turn inward, without the pressure to have it all figured out.
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Develop the practice of reflection as a tool for understanding yourself and your patterns
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Explore what self-care actually looks like for you — beyond the buzzword
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Build practical mindfulness skills for everyday life, not just the meditation cushion
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Create and experience what a genuinely safe space for honest conversation feels like
What to expect:
An open invitation
come as you are — no prior knowledge of mental health or mindfulness needed
A space designed for real conversations
not just polite ones
Light refreshment
because the best conversations happen when everyone's comfortable
Questions people often have but don’t always ask
Frequently asked questions
