As 2024 wraps up, I want to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported Coddiwompling over the last three years. When I started this journey, I wasn’t sure if we’d even…
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This blog attempts to capture the full description and essence of the adventures and their associated reflections of our Coddiwompling endeavours to make deep impacts to the clients, the society and world we live in. It will also be a place for expert sharing in the field of systems thinking, facilitation and coaching and mentoring as part of my contribution to society and the clients that I serve.
Harnessing En-ROADS for Climate Action: A Call to Leaders
Addressing climate change requires deep understanding and innovative solutions in our complex world. Professor John Sterman highlighted the En-ROADS climate change simulation as a powerful tool for leaders to grasp this complexity and…
Finding Purpose in the Melting Moments in Life
This video led me to a deep reflection on life, death, and the essence of living. Watching as the artist pushed a massive block of ice under the scorching sun until it melted…
Transforming the system through Theory U
I recently finished an awesome book called “The Essentials of Theory U” which drew its inspiration from systems thinking and advocates that the leverage point of systemic change within the system starts by…
Surviving the Journey of Becoming an Entrepreneurer to Fulfill One’s Dream
Every year I would travel more than 6,000 miles twice to arrive at Turiba University, Latvia to complete my teaching with the University. This university has a special place in my heart. Not…
Becoming the Best Executive Coach for my Clients
Like many things in my life, it started purely out of curiosity of noticing a friend who is also a coach contributing to AI-generated posts on the topic of executive coaching managed by…
Fake it until you become … how our body language changes our mind
I just finished the book by Amy Cuddy called Presence. It reminded me of her TED talk video that I watched years ago which I have attached to this post (https://lnkd.in/gGqsPKcE). I remembered how…
1-3-1 systems thinking problem solution method to organisation challenges
The 1-3-1 problem solution method embraces many of the philosophies of the systems thinking habits. (1) What is the problem? A problem well defined is a problem half solved [Habit 5]. If you…
Tech Talent AssemBly (TTAB) Overseas Learning Trip Shanghai 2024
The start of Tech Talent AssemBly (TTAB) Overseas Learning Trip 2024 … Excited about this trip that took more than 6 months to plan and execute with a group of buddies from Shanghai……
How to be a friend? Life-changing transformative questions to ask ourselves
When I fall, trip, or get hurt, my friends will be there for me and not my work. It is a great reminder to me to always remember that the most important and…
True love knows no boundary or limit
True love knows no boundary or limit. What is true love? Really what it is? To me, true love is the feeling I feel for my special someone that is in between my…
The Joy of Being a Teacher
More than a decade ago when we first met, I knew in my heart that Joanna Zhou will be unstoppable in the things that she does. She has very high EQ, a nature…
You don’t need to wait for transformative changes to happen to you, you become the change
This photo is taken at the Universal Hall that can host more than 300 pax that is located in the community started by Findhorn Foundation. The Findhorn Foundation in Scotland was found in…
Achieving Sustainability in our Food Systems – Insights from a 94 years-old Balaton Group Member
A tree that grown for perhaps more than a thousand years behind the backyard of the house of a 94 years old Balaton Group member, Dr Ulrich Loening. Dr Ulric is an inspiring…
Becoming a Rumi’s Inspired Coach
I have always been enormously inspired by Rumi and his poem. I don’t know why. It seems that Rumi always have a way to speak a truth that is so profound and simple.…
Go Slow, Play, Seek Out & Speak the Truth and Be in Awe
Watching this video filled my heart with so much joy, peace and balance that I can’t possibly described. https://youtu.be/r-rHc8tm5_c?si=shph6HBiFGYDCYYCVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: To Be In Awe – Wisdom from…
Navigating Success with LEGO®: A Journey of Innovation and Synergy
At Coddiwompling, we’re all about navigating through uncharted territories with confidence and creativity. Recently, the Vice President of NUS Ecosystem enlisted our expertise to design a bespoke strategy development workshop for their senior…
The Power of Coaching: A Journey of Transformation and Success
Jo and Dr. Jenson first crossed paths at Monde Nissin Corporation, where Jo was the General Manager of a leading fast-moving consumer goods brand in Australia, and Dr. Jenson served as the Chief…
Who are you really?
Ever wonder about this question: Who I am? How will you answer this question if you are being asked. I was reading the book called “Atomic Habits – an Easy and Proven Way…
LEGO(R) Six Bricks for 220 Students During Edusave Awards
The trimester of teaching ended two weeks earlier. I was feeling the tiredness of developing and carrying out a new course. Maybe age has finally caught up with my ever-positive spirit. There are…
Change Your Question = Change People Perspective
If you understand Mandarin, this is a great demonstration of how a change in the way you ask questions can change another person’s perspective literally… View this post on Instagram A…
The Inner Joy of Serving my Nation
The inner joy of serving. Several years back, I had the privilege of being induced to Tech Talent AssemBly (TTAB) as their career advisor before being co-opted as an Executive Committee Member and…
Coach the person, not the problem
There were times in my life when I would occasionally be hit by a deep evocation moment that made me question everything about my life and my way of living. It makes me…
Don’t hold our mental model too tightly
This video of Steve Jobs makes me think what are my core values and what I want people to know about them. How about my company’s core values? https://youtu.be/keCwRdbwNQY?si=zpoLNrclu22WaHH6Video can’t be loaded because…
Purposeful Coaching with Colin (CIO, HCSA Community Services)
Making an impact to people through a purposeful coaching process. Almost half a year ago, I raised my hand when ITMA was calling for volunteer to participate in a 1 year National Council…
Transforming Leadership: Creating Thinkers, One Company at a Time
At Coddiwompling, we’re all about navigating through uncharted territories with confidence and creativity. Recently, the Vice President of NUS Ecosystem enlisted our expertise to design a bespoke strategy development workshop for their senior…
Customizing LEGO(R) Six Bricks Level 1 and 2 Training for Facilitators
I am one of the rare few certified Lead Trainer for LEGO(R) Six Bricks by the inventors at Care for Education in Singapore. LEGO(R) Six Bricks is a learning through play method that…
How do you solve the Pertinent Problem of Losting Talents to the Market?
Have a blast conducting a specially customized industry engagement keynote speech for ITE Workplace Learning Division to their 40 partners’ companies. The first 2-hour session in late 2022 on “How do you solve…
How learning LEGO(R) Six Bricks has transformed my life?
Since getting certified as a facilitator in LEGO(R) Six Bricks in 2019 and then becoming a Certified Lead Trainer in 2021, the learning through methodology has truly transformed my life. First, it has…
50
When I was 10, 50 is an alien. It will be percieved as an intruder in my mind and will be chased out on sight. How strange. When I was 20, 50 is…
Driving Safety Excellence Through Systems Thinking
Shahrin, the Managing Director of the SMRT TEL line (now CEO of Singapore Post), approached Dr. Jenson after attending my customized Systems Thinking Habits programme for SMRT TEL. He recognized the immense value…
Bet on me
For more than 1.5 year now since I started my company “Coddiwompling”, I have been feeling lonely about my decision. Notwithstanding all the doubts and uncertainties that I faced on the day to…
>800 Participants – Experience of Designing Large Scale LEGO(R) Six Bricks Activities for Rainbow Centre
On 31 May 2023, together with a group of LEGO(R) Six Bricks Level 1 and 2 facilitators that I have trained and certified and the trainers from Rainbow Center (a Not for Profit…
Stories of Asia’s Mentor-Mentee Monthly Event – Give & Take Circle Facilitation with LEGO(R) Six Bricks
I would never expect a call to serve the Stories of Asia‘s mentor-mentee monthly meetup session would go viral in Linkedin. I received more than 30 invitations to connect and multiple posts from…
LEGO(R) Six Bricks Lead Trainer & Facilitator Conference – May 2023
I was in heaven for 1 week at Care for Education, Johannesburg in late May. As one of the few Lead Trainers of LEGO(R) Six Bricks Facilitators around the world, I am honored…
The Magic of LEGO(R) Serious Play
I never played with LEGO(R) when I was young, although I love getting my hands on gaming devices. It never occurred to me how the serependity exploration of wanting to use LEGO(R) bricks…
As large as you can get with Canvas – LEGO(R) Serious Play for ITE IT Strategy Workshop
It was another one of my largest LEGO(R) SERIOUS PLAY(R) [LSP] workshop (for close to 60 people) specially designed for Institute of Technical Education IT Division to help them develop their strategies going…
Consultancy + LEGO(R) Serious Play + Keynote Speech = ITE Refective Practices Project
It was a more than six-month consultancy project. The end goal is to help ITE College West design and co-create a reflective practices toolkit that can be used for all academic, admin and…
Systems Thinking Habits for Leaders of SMRT TEL
March has been a really busy month for me. One of the reasons is because I have this opportunity to customize, design and implement two rounds of systems thinking habits programme for leaders…
LEGO(R) Serious Play Strategy Development for SHRI
It is a great honor and privilege to be given this opportunity to run a LEGO(R) SERIOUS PLAY(R) [LSP] strategy development for the council members (consisting of many DCEO, CHROs and HR Directors)…
Getting People to Enbrace Growth Mindset – SCALA Brown Bag Series
Giving a lunch time brown bag talk has always been a challenge for me. You are fighting for the attention between hunger and the need to create some forms of impact in the…
The privilege of facilitating the Annual ITE Strategy Review Workshop
Ever since I was 1 of the assessment leads for the Singapore Quality Award with Special Commendation for Insitute of Technical Education (ITE) in 2018, I am deeply inspired and sold to the…
What I love about teaching in Turiba University, Latvia
I always looked forward to my trip to Turiba University, Latvia as an Adjunct Professor every year. One of the main reasons is because it gave me an opportunity to live and interact…
A teacher’s reflection on his approach to teaching systems thinking and modelling
This blog post was written on 22 Sept 2018, close to 6 years ago. Yet, my teaching and learning philosophy on systems thinking and system dynamics has not changed. It is a great…
Mono No Aware (物の哀れ)
Mono no aware (物の哀れ) is a Japanese term that I picked up when I read the book ‘Spark Joy’ written by Marie Kondo. If you don’t know who she is, she is a…