Teaching & Work Experience: Prof. Ming Singer

(1)Watauga Public Library Adult Learning Series(NC,USA)

Series Title: Mind, Brain and Consciousness.

(Aug 15-Oct 19, 2014--weekly sessions)

Topics:“Mind,Thoughts,and Dreams”;"Human Nature, Habitual Thought Pattern, & Stereotyping";"Memory,Healing, Brain Disorders";"Mind at Journey's End";"The Creative Mind (Music, Poetry, Art & Science)";"Mysticism, (Natural Heritage, Comparative Religion)";"Language and"Silent Language";"Making Decisions";"IT/ET/DT and the Mind”;"Emotion,Habitual Affective State".

(2) Radio-hosting;On-line lectures,Consulting work in USA (Feb 2013--Present)

On-Line Course Tutoring: 2014 University of the Third Age (UK)

Course Title: All in the Mind. This course consists of 17 topics:Introduction;The brain; On basic Human nature; The music mind; Brain disorders and damages; Belief and faith; Languages; Silent language of the private self; The “stereotyping” mind; Intelligence; Memory and Mind; Decision making (I): Social influences; Decision-making (II) Machine influences; Mind at “journey’s end”; The 21st century information technology and human mind; Future brain: Neurosurgery and epigenetic; and, Love and hurt.

(June 2014: Course outline on two Ming Singer Websites).

Audio recordings of 20 Radio programmes of “Beautiful Life” (AM1320 US Chinese Broadcasting)

(English transcriptions)

(June 2014: on two Ming Singer Websites)

Voluntary Work for the Chinese communities in Houston, Texas (Dec 2013– Feb 2014). Work

included:

Lecture/workshop on “Beautiful life”, Light and Salt Care Centre (7 Dec 2013)

Lecture/workshop on “Contemporary workplace issues”, Houston Chinese Community

Centre (8 Dec 2013)

●Lecture/workshop on “Marriage and Close Relationships”, Houston Chinese Community

Centre (14 Dec 2013)

●Lecture/workshop on “Dreams and Dealing with Work Stress”, Houston Chinese Community

Centre (15 Dec 2013)

●2 lecture/workshop(s) with “Youth group” (BYC Youth/Family Winter camp): “Current societal

and youth issues”(22-24 Dec 2013)

Workshop with “Parent group” (BYC winter camp):“Issues regarding family, marriage,

children, work/career”(22 Dec 2013)

●Workshop with “Support group for breast cancer patients”, Light and Salt Care Centre

(11 Jan 2014)

●Workshop with “ Special care-giver group”, Light and Salt Care Centre (15 Feb 2014)

●ITV (Chinese Language) television interviews on “Alzheimer’s and elderly care” (4 Feb 2014)

and “Daily life stress and dream’s guidance” (11 Feb 2014)

●74 Private advising/counselling sessions: individuals, family or small groups (8 Dec’13 -27

Feb 2014)

Hosting radio program at the US-Chinese Broadcasting from Houston, Texas, USA

(Invited radio program hosting: “Beautiful Life”, topics include: family relationships, dual-career issues,

work/life challenges, in bi- and multi-, cultural environments, dating & social issues, generation

gaps, etc)

Advising/Counseling work with university students, NC, USA

(Work & relationship stress, career advising, CV writing, etc)

Phone/Skype Private advising/consulting work

(On-going, see (4) below)

(Stress & time management, work & career transition, retirement & layoff, personal growth, conflict

resolution, etc)

Recorded seven On-line Lectures on the topic, “Human Mind and Consciousness” (Singer, M. 2013)

(June 2013: on two Ming Singer Websites:

English website: www.consciousnessminddreams.com )

Lecture #1:“Reason-Sentience Divide” (2:14 hrs)

Lecture #2:“Scientific Approaches to the Mind” (1:24 hrs)

Lecture #3:“The Pragmatic Consequences of Collective Mind” (1:11 hrs)

Lecture #4:“Wisdom and Perennial Philosophies” (1:11 hrs)

Lecture #5:“Immortality of Thoughts” (1:14 hrs)

Lecture #6:“Our Life’s Work” (2:09 hrs)

Lecture #7:“The Guiding Functions of Dreams” (1:22 hrs)

(3) Teaching & Volunteer work in London,UK (Aug 2012--Feb 2013)

Teaching one course, “Thoughts and Dreams” at University of the Third Age, Hampstead Campus, London.

(Sept-Dec 2012 term).

Course involves weekly discussions of “human thoughts and dream-state consciousness”. The main

focus was on the pragmatic and guiding functions of dreams for life’s challenge and purpose.

Replacement Tutor for the “Chinese Language” course at U3A, Hampstead, London.

And private lessons on Chinese language learning (Oct 2012-Jan 2013).

Advising/counseling work in the London & UK Chinese communities (Sept 2012-Feb 2013)

Work advertised in London’s Chinese Weekly Newspaper, services provided over telephone, and included:

work and career-related stress, relationship and family issues, personal and cultural conflicts,

mid-life transition, caring for elderly & dealing with ageing, and resume-writing for job applications.

(4) Volunteer work in USA (Jan 2008—Aug 2012)

Private Advising/Counseling work in Houston, Texas

(October, 2011)

Organized by James Wong, Editor-in-Chief, Houston Chinese Press, in conjunction with Beijing &

National Taiwan Universities’ Houston Associations.

Work included: Radio Interview (Houston 1050-am,19 Oct), Lecture workshop (22 Oct), and private

advising/counseling sessions for individuals/small groups.

Private Advising/counseling work in Hawaii

(Nov-Dec 2009, May-Aug 2010)

Stress management, familial relationship, etc., applying dream interpretation in managing personal

stress and conflicts.

Lectures/Workshops/Private Sessions at the CRT Community in Winston-Salem, NC.

(July-Nov 2009 & Jan-April 2010)

Lecture topics: “Marriage”, “Healthy Diet”, “Self-Esteem”.

Workshops & Private individual counseling sessions on: Work-related stress, personal conflicts, dieting

and health issues, mid-life crisis, marriage conflicts, personal relationship, child rearing issues,

race-related issues, CV-writing, career guidance,Chinese Mandarin language classes.

Workshops at Deerfield Ridge Assisted Living Center, NC. (July-Nov 2008)

Training sessions for the Nursing Staff at the Center (“Leadership and Team Building Training”,

“Dealing with Stress at Work”)

Seventeen seminar/discussion sessions for the elderly residents at the Center, topics include “Change in my life”,

“Personal relationships and Living in a community”, “Dreams that can guide our life”,“Coming to

terms with past hurts, illness…or other Issues that have been bothering you”,

“Positive thoughts and physical health: Brain and healing” (Bolte-Taylor’s book,“My Stroke of

Insight”), “Economy & capitalism: Effects on the elderly”, “Current nation-wide financial

crisis”, “How to avoid social isolation”, “Dealing with uncontrollable stressful events in life”.)

(5)Skype, phone: Business Consulting, Advising & Personal Coaching

(On-going for the past decades alongside academic career)

Consulting over phone/internet with international business personnel, including purchasing, operations

marketing managers, on organizational development, team building, layoff issues, stress management,

conflict resolution, etc.

(6)Lectures & workshop (Nov 2004-2006)

●Invited lecture on "Rational-Choice models in decision-making: applications and limitations". School of

of Business, University of Redlands, California, USA (March 2006)

●Invited workshop on "Stressors & Stress Management in contemporary workplace". The Hogan

Entrepreneurial Program, School of Business, Chaminade University of Honolulu, Hawaii,

USA (March 2006)

●Workshops on "Sentience and Reason" (based on my 2003 book entitled Sentience: Companion to Reason).

Spokane, Washington, USA (Nov 2004-April 2005)

(7)Teaching at University of Canterbury (1984 to 2005)

●Undergraduate Courses taught including: Introduction to Psychology (1st year paper), Personality,

Developmental Psychology (2nd year), Industrial & Organizational Psychology (3rd year).

●The M.Sc. Applied Psychology Program, Postgraduate Psychology Courses taught including: Personnel

Psychology, Organizational Psychology (1st year Master’s papers), Advanced Personnel and

Organizational Psychology, Theory and Methods in I/O Psychology, Ethics and Justice in

Organizations, Organizations and Change, Career Development (2nd year Master’s papers)

Supervision of Research Theses and Dissertations (See listing under “List of Publications”).

(8) Administration & Community Services, University of Canterbury, NZ (1984 to Aug 2005)

University of Canterbury Boards and Committees

University of Canterbury Academic Board (1992-’96)

Management Committee of the Early Learning Centre (1991-’92)

Liaison for the Educational Research and Advisory Unit (1996)

University of Canterbury Joint Academic Grievance Committee (1999-2001)

University Human Ethics Committee (2000-‘03)

Department of Psychology Committees:

Psychology Teaching & Limitation of Entry Committee (1991-’93)

Ethics Committee of Psychology (1992-’93)

Textbook Liaison of Psychology (1991-‘95)

Grievance Committee of Psychology (1994-’95)

Chair, University Internal Review of the Technical Staff of the Psychology Department (1997)

Judge, Postgraduate Conference Paper Competition (1998)

Psychology Curriculum Committee (1996-‘99)

Psychology Staff-Student Liaison Committee (1999-’02)

Program and Course Coordinator (psyc-200-level, 3rd-yr I/O Psychology, M.Sc. Applied Psychology

Master’s Program.

Departmental Ad Hoc Selection Committees: for Recruiting lecturers in Cognition, Personality/Individual

Differences, Health Psychology, and I/O psychology positions.

Organizer, Psychology Research Seminar Series (2000)

Psychology Research & Grant Allocation Committee (2000-‘02)

Community Services

Status & Membership Committee of the New Zealand Psychological Society (2001-’05)

Invited speaker on Asian Culture at the “Asian 2000 Week”, Ilam Primary School, Christchurch, NZ (1994).

Organizing Committee for the Pacific Asian Studies Conference, University of Canterbury (1989)

Co-organizing the NZ Economic Psychology Symposium (1993)

Co-organizing the NZ Business Ethics Symposium (1997)

Editorial board (NZJP, JBE), Ad hoc reviewer for various international academic journals.

External Examiner for Ph.D., M.Sc., M.A theses & dissertations.

(9) Teaching at New Zealand National Police College, Wellington (1983)

●Lecturer in General Studies, teaching social, organizational and applied psychology topics related to

“policing & law enforcement work”, to three levels: Recruits Training Program, Refresher Courses for

Senior Personnel, and Recruits Counseling Services

(10)Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ
(Aug '81-Dec '82)

●In addition to post-doctoral research, designed two practical lab exercises in cognition for first year

laboratory program.

(11)Teaching at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, Australia (Feb 1973-Aug '81)

●Lecturing topics: Thinking and Hemispheric Processing, Memory and Language, and Statistics &

Quantitative Methods.

●Teaching tutorial and Laboratory topics to first-year laboratory and tutorial classes, first-year statistics course.

●Post-first-year Seminar and Laboratory programs on courses including “Cognition and human information

processing “, “Language and Communication”, “Quantitative Psychology & Statistics”, “Learning and

Behavior Modification”, “Perception”, “Personality Testing and Assessment”.

●Intensive External Teaching Programs in Sydney, for external students enrolled in Psychology, University

of New England. Classes held during May & September university breaks.

●Residential Tutor (psychology) in Austin and St. Albert's Colleges (1975-78).

●Non-Resident Fellow: Mary White College (1979-81).

(12) Research Assistant, National Taiwan University

& Teaching at Jien-Kuo English Language School, Taipei, Taiwan (June 1972-Jan 1973).

●Research assistance in the Experimental Laboratory on Human Program learning, Psychology, NTU.

●Teaching English and grammar to Beginning Classes in J-K English Language School, & private tutoring.