Year 2025
March 2025

Courses

The Art of Conversation

Start Date: 02 May 2025 | End Date: 09 May 2025
Peninsula Plaza, 111 North Bridge Road, Unit 07-05/06, Singapore 179098


About National Silver Academy (NSA)
The National Silver Academy (NSA) is a network of post-secondary education institutions (PSEIs) (i.e. ITE, polytechnics, universities and arts institutions) and community-based organisations that offer learning opportunities that are subsidised for seniors. Seniors and PRs aged 50 years and above can look forward to attending short courses and bite-sized courses that are exam free. For courses run by community-based organisations, the final fee payable – for both Singaporean and Permanent Resident seniors – takes into account the support given by the government to community-based organisations to develop and offer the short courses.

About The Singapore Association for Continuing Education (SACE)
The Singapore Association for Continuing Education (SACE) is a registered charity with MOE. It offers over 80 courses under the National Silver Academy, most of which are highly subsidised for Singaporeans & Permanent Residents aged 50 and above. SACE serves the continuing learning needs of adults of all ages.

Course Details
Course Number SACE-CBO-M-137E-2025-05-01
Course Start 02/05/2025
Course End 09/05/2025
Registration Open
Duration 7 hours over 2 sessions
Session Friday, 2:00 - 5:30 pm, 2/5, 9/5
Objective The course aims to help people

  1. To live a harmonious life with family, neighbours, people whom they work for and people they work with,
  2. To have more friends, to better friends, and to build meaningful and lasting relationships,
  3. To exit toxic environment and to exit toxic relationships with grace and ease.
Description The participants will learn

  1. There is no need to argue,
  2. To find solutions, not find faults
  3. To listen with the ear, the eyes, the heart and the mind,
  4. To understand what the real problem is,
  5. To turn hurtful criticisms into constructive feedback,
  6. To disarm the aggressors with patience, calmness, understanding, empathy, and emotional detachment,
  7. To gracefully exit toxic environment and toxic relationships,
  8. To turn foes to friends.
Trainer Gea Ban Peng

Ban Peng runs his own Management Consultancy business with more than 35 years of success serving clients from all over the world including Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, UK, USA. He has more than 25 years of training experience providing training and coaching including serving as Chief Trainer in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, and Thailand for Toastmasters International.

Medium of Instruction
English
Venue Peninsula Plaza

111 North Bridge Road, Unit 07-05/06 Peninsula Plaza Singapore 179098

Application Register online with details on Course Topic, Start Date, Full Name (as in NRIC/FIN), Date of Birth, Gender, NRIC/FIN, Race, Citizenship, Address & Postal Code, Email and Contact Number
Fees Payable $25.20 pp NSA fee for Singaporean/PR age 50+, $126.00 pp for all others.
SkillsFuture Credit (SFC) Applicable
SACE Membership Subsidy (SMS) Applicable for SACE members
Contact Person Secretariat – Tel: 6266 0648  or Email: secretariat@sace.org.sg