[SIG] Storytelling for Impact: Creating Safe and Engaging Learning Spaces
Chan Earn Meng (Mr)
Course Duration: 2.5 hours
AEN Member
Total Course Fee
S$0.00
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Sign Up for AEN MemberThis session is held on 5 Nov, 7.00pm - 9.30pm. Registration will close on 28 Oct, 2359 hrs.
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This session will be conducted face-to-face at IAL. More details on participating in the session will be send to the confirmed registrants.
What Is The Session About?
Storytelling is a powerful tool for fostering connection, engagement, and impactful learning. In adult education, mastering the art of crafting and facilitating meaningful narratives can transform ordinary training into immersive learning experiences.
This session explores frameworks and techniques for trainers and facilitators in creating safe and fun spaces for storytelling. Participants will discover strategies to build trust, strengthen group rapport, and navigate challenges that may arise during storytelling activities.
By the end of the session, participants will gain the confidence to integrate storytelling into their facilitation practice, enhancing group dynamics and deepening participant engagement. Whether you're looking to foster connection, encourage open dialogue, or reinforce key learning points, this session will provide the tools to make storytelling a compelling and valuable part of your training approach.
This session explores frameworks and techniques for trainers and facilitators in creating safe and fun spaces for storytelling. Participants will discover strategies to build trust, strengthen group rapport, and navigate challenges that may arise during storytelling activities.
By the end of the session, participants will gain the confidence to integrate storytelling into their facilitation practice, enhancing group dynamics and deepening participant engagement. Whether you're looking to foster connection, encourage open dialogue, or reinforce key learning points, this session will provide the tools to make storytelling a compelling and valuable part of your training approach.
What Does The Session Cover?
At the end of the session, participants will be able to take-away the following:
1. Gain a deeper understanding of how stories build meaningful connections and learnings within groups.
2. Leave with usable framework, process, and tools to facilitate storytelling.
3. Create a safe and supportive environment for participants to share personal stories.
2. Leave with usable framework, process, and tools to facilitate storytelling.
3. Create a safe and supportive environment for participants to share personal stories.
Who Is It Suitable For?
Adult Education: Individuals who are involved in learning design, curriculum development, learning facilitation, assessment of learning competence, learning technology integration and/or providing consultancy and advisory services to drive business performance.
Course Funding and Policies
This session is open to AEN members for free. To register for AEN membership, please click here.
About The Speaker
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Chan Earn Meng (Mr)
Co-founder | LEA Asia
Chan Earn Meng (Mr) is an entrepreneur and the co-founder of LEA Asia, a boutique leadership consulting firm with offices in Singapore and Shanghai. At LEA Asia, Earn Meng and his team are dedicated to unlocking the hidden talents and intelligence in leaders and teams across various organisations. Driven by the conviction that every individual possesses unique and smart qualities, LEA operates not just as consultants but as catalysts for enduring change, emphasizing the potential for personal and professional growth within the corporate world.
Earn Meng expertise includes facilitating successful transitions to new roles, molding frontline and middle managers into impactful leaders, and enhancing executives' persuasive presentation and storytelling skills. Through his work, Earn Meng has contributed to improving the leadership capabilities of executives, reshaping their mental models towards change, values, and performance. His client portfolio spans more than 30 companies in Asia, including firms like Starbucks, Epson, and BP Castrol.
Before LEA, Earn Meng was Head of HR for OCBC China, and Head of Group HR for Hi-P International and Sunray Construction. Notable moments included leading Sunray to win Singapore’s Best Employers Award three times in a row, placing it the only Singapore company in the Top 10 position alongside giants like Google and Starbucks. At OCBC China, he oversaw the attraction, engagement, and development of talents from under 200 to over 3,000. And at Hi-P he transformed the HR function of 100 HR members from a traditional operating model to HR excellence and business partnering model to serve its 13,000 strong workforce faster, better, and easier.
Earn Meng is actively involved in several professional associations. He is a Multiplier System Coach with the Wiseman Group, a founder member of Personal Storytelling of the Storytelling Association of Singapore, and serves as the Vice President of the International Association of Facilitators. His academic credentials include an Honours Degree from the National University of Singapore and executive education from INSEAD, Cambridge University, IMD Switzerland Business School, and the Nanyang University of Singapore.
Earn Meng expertise includes facilitating successful transitions to new roles, molding frontline and middle managers into impactful leaders, and enhancing executives' persuasive presentation and storytelling skills. Through his work, Earn Meng has contributed to improving the leadership capabilities of executives, reshaping their mental models towards change, values, and performance. His client portfolio spans more than 30 companies in Asia, including firms like Starbucks, Epson, and BP Castrol.
Before LEA, Earn Meng was Head of HR for OCBC China, and Head of Group HR for Hi-P International and Sunray Construction. Notable moments included leading Sunray to win Singapore’s Best Employers Award three times in a row, placing it the only Singapore company in the Top 10 position alongside giants like Google and Starbucks. At OCBC China, he oversaw the attraction, engagement, and development of talents from under 200 to over 3,000. And at Hi-P he transformed the HR function of 100 HR members from a traditional operating model to HR excellence and business partnering model to serve its 13,000 strong workforce faster, better, and easier.
Earn Meng is actively involved in several professional associations. He is a Multiplier System Coach with the Wiseman Group, a founder member of Personal Storytelling of the Storytelling Association of Singapore, and serves as the Vice President of the International Association of Facilitators. His academic credentials include an Honours Degree from the National University of Singapore and executive education from INSEAD, Cambridge University, IMD Switzerland Business School, and the Nanyang University of Singapore.