About the Event :

Resilience and Drive is one of our critical intrapersonal core competencies which enables us to face challenges and strive for excellence. Mr Nelson Yip, MH, an inspirational speaker will share his valuable experience on this topic with us.

To most people, disability is not only inconvenient but disastrous. Nelson is using his life story to demonstrate that disability can actually be a Gift and Blessing. In this sharing seminar, Nelson will articulate how he faces various adversities, strives for excellence and creates a purposeful way of living in our life.

Teachers who are attending the seminar will be equipped with a mindset, ideas and tips on how to support students with or without special needs in dealing with challenges.

Seminar Highlights:

Adversity

• Adversities in life! 
  
• How to face adversities? 
  
• What do you want? Why change? What's the purpose of making this change? 

Self-Awareness and Life Coaching

• Mental toughness is trainable!  
  
• Attribution Training and personal resilience  
  
• How to use the mind to create success in both personal and life goals 
  

 Make impossible Possible – Personal Effectiveness

• Make use of all the resources we have at our disposal to master our life and achieve both work and life goals 
  
• Embrace change and connect with the team/others 
  
• Strike back and turnaround 
  

Facilitator(s) :

Mr Nelson Yip Siu-hong, MH, founding CEO and Director of EP Venture Limited has transformed and improved startups, public and private organisations with his experiences and capabilities. The core business focuses on Business Strategy Consulting which is a prerequisite in this fast growing economy.

Challenges are never an obstacle to Nelson. He views them as a motivation to improve further. Having contracted cerebral palsy as an infant, he was a frequent visitor at the hospital. The road was not easy but he made his way and was awarded a BSc in Statistics and Computer Science, MA in Quantitative Analysis in Business and an MBA at CUHK.

Horse riding is his other passion. Nelson was the first qualified representative of Hong Kong Paralympics Equestrian Competition in 2008. He was also an Olympic Torch Bearer of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. He was awarded the Medal of Honour by the HKSAR Government for his contribution in promoting sports for disabled athletes. He has also been conferred the Honorary Fellow by The City University of Hong Kong for his accomplishments and impacts on Hong Kong society.

Target Audience :

All VTC Staff

Enquiry :

Miss LEUNG Ching Wai, Fanny
Project Officer
Tel: 2836-1240  
E-mail: fanleung@vtc.edu.hk