New Mind Academy

16/03/2026

職場與心理健康采訪。
收聽完整采訪：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5eOtg63rj8&list=PL6H8lwRiq7U1o2W0d9LIHh976dpcAm6-B&index=3

12/03/2026

今晚7pm到8pm，开收音机收听AiFM，
我们陪你下班🙌🏻

今天晚上7点 #下班聊天下

工商心理學工作者 Hiro古健荣博士 谈 职场与工商心理健康

主持人： Jc 劲程

#爱下班聊天下 #越听越爱

07/03/2026

At New Mind, we believe organizational psychology should go beyond theory and be applied in real workplaces.

Recently, our Director, Dr. Hiro Koo, brought our UKM Industrial & Organizational Psychology (IO Psychology) Master's intern, JY, to a company to work on a real organizational psychology intervention project.

One of the key steps in the process is Training Needs Analysis (TNA).
Together with the organization, we assess the team’s current psychosocial condition, especially an important indicator: Psychosocial Safety Climate (PSC).

When a team’s psychosocial safety improves, it often leads to many positive outcomes, such as:
✨ Higher productivity
✨ Greater employee engagement
✨ A healthier and more stable team environment

Many international studies have also shown that a strong psychosocial safety climate can reduce psychological “work injuries” and help teams operate more sustainably and effectively.

Following the assessment, our team designs a one-year customized intervention plan tailored to the organization’s real challenges.
We also conduct follow-up tracking after one year to evaluate the changes and improvements.

As a DOSH Certified Psychosocial Trained Person (PTP), Dr. Hiro also ensures that the approach aligns with DOSH’s psychosocial risk assessment requirements.

Through this process, organizations can not only build a healthier work environment, but also reduce the risk of non-compliance penalties that can reach hundreds of thousands.

When the environment becomes healthier and teams function better, organizational performance naturally becomes more sustainable. 📈

06/03/2026

If you have a few minutes over the next couple of days, you are warmly invited to participate in this public survey prepared by the Ministry of Health Malaysia (KKM):
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSclWm_ehyoNH14xIaas_5EpLU-46l1qkXewGruNrts45EQuSA/viewform

At present, the Malaysian government is conducting a public consultation survey on the regulation and development of hypnotherapy. The aim of this survey is to better understand the public’s awareness, experiences, and perspectives regarding hypnotherapy, which will serve as an important reference for future policy development.

Over the past several years, the Association of Hypnotherapy Practitioners Malaysia (AHPM) has been actively working to advance the professional development of hypnotherapy in Malaysia. From compiling international hypnotherapy education frameworks, professional training standards, and scientific evidence during the early stages of recognition efforts, to later contributing to the development of the local NOSS for Hypnotherapy, these initiatives have all aimed to support the safe, professional, and responsible development of hypnotherapy practice in the country.

This public consultation represents a critical stage in this journey. Feedback from the public will help policymakers better understand societal perspectives on hypnotherapy and guide future directions for regulation and professional development.

If you have a few minutes to spare, we encourage you to take part in this survey.
Your voice can contribute to the continued advancement of mental health, mind-body wellbeing, and professional standards in Malaysia.

Thank you for your time and support.

Tinjauan ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan pandangan orang awam mengenai kebolehlaksanaan pengawalseliaan hipnoterapi di bawah sistem penjagaan kesihatan Malaysia. Tinjauan ini adalah untuk membantu memastikan amalan perubatan tradisional dan komplementari di Malaysia adalah selamat, beretika dan dika...

04/03/2026

📢 AWAS: Emotional Blackmail di Tempat Kerja

Dalam persekitaran kerja, tekanan bukan sahaja datang daripada tugasan dan tarikh akhir. Kadangkala ia hadir dalam bentuk manipulasi emosi seperti rasa bersalah, simpati atau tanggungjawab yang digunakan untuk memaksa seseorang melakukan sesuatu yang sebenarnya tidak dipersetujui.

Situasi seperti
“Kalau awak tak tolong, saya akan susah…”
atau
“Saya ingat kita kawan rapat…”

boleh menjadi tanda emotional blackmail. Tekanan seperti ini bukan sekadar isu komunikasi, tetapi berkaitan dengan kawalan dan manipulasi emosi.

Jika tidak ditangani dengan baik, keadaan ini boleh menyebabkan:
• Keletihan emosi
• Sempadan kerja menjadi kabur
• Kepercayaan dalam pasukan terjejas
• Tekanan dan kebimbangan meningkat dari masa ke masa

💡 Ingat:
Berkomunikasi dengan baik tidak bermaksud kita perlu mengatakan “ya” kepada semua perkara.
Tetapkan batas yang jelas, gunakan fakta, dan kekalkan sikap profesional.

Kadangkala kata-kata yang baik perlu disertai dengan batas yang tegas demi kesejahteraan diri dan hubungan kerja yang sihat.

Jika anda memerlukan ruang untuk berkongsi atau mendapatkan sokongan, Pusat Kaunseling UPSI sentiasa sedia membantu.

04/03/2026

Grateful to see the work of New Mind Brain Health Centre featured in the March issue of Batik Air Malaysia in-flight magazine. ✨

The article highlights our integrated approach combining Neurofeedback and Hypnotherapy from an organizational psychology perspective, focusing on how brain-based self-regulation and mind-body approaches can support individuals facing burnout, stress, and cognitive overload in today’s demanding world.

It is always encouraging when conversations about brain health, emotional regulation, and preventive mental wellness are brought to a wider audience. Platforms like this help raise awareness that mental health care is not only about treatment, but also about early regulation, resilience building, and optimizing human potential.

Thank you Batik Air Malaysia for the opportunity to share our work with readers and travelers across the region. I truly appreciate the platform to contribute to the growing dialogue on brain and mental health.

03/03/2026

Workplace NPD是什么？来看

📌 WORKPLACE NARCISSISTIC TRAITS

Tidak semua tingkah laku yang sukar di tempat kerja adalah perkara biasa. Ada kalanya ia melibatkan corak personaliti yang boleh menjejaskan emosi, keyakinan diri serta kesejahteraan profesional.

Kenali antara tanda yang mungkin wujud:
✔️ Membesar-besarkan pencapaian sendiri
✔️ Sentiasa menuntut pujian dan pengiktirafan
✔️ Berasa diri lebih layak daripada orang lain
✔️ Mengambil kredit dan mengelak tanggungjawab
✔️ Kurang empati terhadap rakan sekerja
✔️ Cemburu terhadap kejayaan orang lain
✔️ Bersikap angkuh atau merendahkan

⚖️ Menetapkan batasan bukan bersikap kasar. Ia adalah langkah profesional untuk menjaga maruah, masa dan kesihatan mental anda.

Sekiranya anda berdepan situasi yang menekan atau mengganggu kesejahteraan di tempat kerja, dapatkan sokongan. Anda tidak perlu menghadapinya seorang diri.

📍 Pusat Kaunseling UPSI sentiasa bersedia membantu.

02/03/2026

新年结束了，来参加这个体验式New Mind Card工作坊，帮你准备好心情“开工”！
只需RM50，来了也可以再来参加。
日期：3月7日（星期六），2pm
https://forms.gle/3GmEN8vNFufxntzH7

02/03/2026

Some say interviews can be deceptive. Resumes can be too.
But a person’s Character Strengths cannot.

The greatest cost to an organization is placing the right person in the wrong role.
An even greater loss is overlooking someone’s true strengths.

Many people say, “Personality is hard to change.”
That is true. Personality is relatively stable and not easily altered.

But Character Strengths are different.

Strengths of character are more like “inner skills.”
They can be recognized, strengthened, and trained.

For example:
Some people are naturally highly responsible.
Some possess strong empathy.
Some become calmer under pressure.
Some excel in strategy and long-term vision.

In smooth times, everyone looks similar.
But in adversity, what becomes amplified is not the resume, but a person’s character and strengths.

That is why we emphasize:

🔎 Talent Profiling
🔎 Character Strength Exploration

Traditional assessments often stop at “Which type are you?”
What we focus on instead is:

✔ Your Cognitive Capacity
✔ Your Emotional Capacity
✔ Your Stress Response Pattern
✔ Which Character Strengths you activate to survive in adversity

Organizations do not only need people who can perform tasks.
They need individuals who can continue creating value under uncertainty and pressure.

When a person clearly understands their Character Strengths,
they stop blindly imitating others
and start leveraging their own advantages to break limitations.

That is sustainable growth.

Would you like to know what strengths you or your core team will demonstrate under pressure and challenge?

Comment “Assessment”
or DM us “Assessment,” and we will send you the details of initial screening for understanding your brain performance and potential better.

02/03/2026

All about adult ADHD

01/03/2026

【Burnout Is Not Something You Fix with a Vacation】

Why is it that you went on a long holiday,
even flew to the beach or the forest,
used your phone less,
and yet on the first day back at work, you still felt completely drained?

If rest alone could cure burnout,
many senior executives would have recovered by now.

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As a practitioner in Occupational Health Psychology and brain function optimization,
I have to say this very honestly:

Burnout is not an attitude problem.
It is not because you are ungrateful or not trying hard enough.
It is not because your stress tolerance is weak.

Occupational burnout is very often a dysregulation of the nervous system under prolonged high pressure.

When a person remains for a long time in:

High responsibility with low control

High expectations with low reward

Chronic emotional suppression and role conflict

The brain’s stress regulation system gradually shifts into functional imbalance.

The prefrontal cortex begins to lose executive efficiency.
Emotional regulation becomes more difficult.
The autonomic nervous system stays biased toward a state of hypervigilance.
Even when the body is lying down, the nervous system has not truly powered off.

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This state cannot be reversed by simply sleeping a few extra days.

A vacation only removes you temporarily from the source of stress.
It does not automatically restore your nervous system.

So when you return and familiar work cues reappear,
the entire stress circuit is reactivated.

Many people assume they are just “bad at handling stress.”
In reality, their nervous system is overloaded.

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Burnout can be a brain-based autonomic regulation issue.
It is not a moral failure.

Something I often say in corporate trainings:

Stop treating burnout as a personality or attitude problem.
It only makes people feel more guilty and self-blaming.

A more effective direction is to reassess, from the lens of brain science and psychosocial risk management:

Your pattern of stress exposure

Your autonomic regulation capacity

Your executive functioning and emotional load

Whether your work structure contains systemic depletion factors

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Stop resting blindly.

If you notice that:

You have no major illness, yet feel chronically exhausted

Your workload has not increased, but your energy has dropped

You feel detached from achievement and distant from people

Even vacations do not restore you

Perhaps what you need is not another flight ticket.

DM to book a one-to-one initial Brain Health Consultation.

From the perspective of neuroscience and Occupational Health Psychology,
we will help you identify the real root of your burnout.

Let recovery no longer depend on luck.