Dazzling Stars

Key Staff

Meet Our Staff

Lam Kwong Khiam

Director and Principal

Kwong Khiam is the Director and Principal overseeing Dazzling Stars. He actively researched into education, psychology & neuroscience since 2009.

An avid Mindfulness Practitioner, Kwong Khiam has participated in international conferences, seminars and workshops on life-skills training, mindfulness, mindful art and dyslexia in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas (United States), Frankfurt (Germany) and Singapore.

His passion and belief in Mindfulness as a key to living a more balanced and fulfilling life led him to formulate that wellness, attention and alertness of the mind are the foundations for all other trainings of skills and knowledge.

With the combination of his love in training and the passion in helping both adults and children improve their overall well-being, he created Morphing Mind to further this cause.

Credentials

  • Certified Mindfulness Instructor under Mindfulness Certification Training™ (MCT)
  • Trained Mindfulness Facilitator, Brahm Centre
  • CZT, Certified Zentangle Teacher
  • Brain Development Certified Instructor, Neuro Code Research
  • ACTA, WSQ
  • MBA, CSU East Bay
  • B. Acc (Hons), NUS

Current Appointments

  • Co- Founder & Director 

Former Designations

  • SVP, DBS Group
  • MCR, Corenet Global
  • Chair, Cornet Global Singapore Chapter
  • Featured in Leader, Cornet Global
  • Advisory Comm Member, Ngee Ann Poly
  • Chartered Accountant
  • Senior Accountant, Capitaland
  • Auditor, Ernst & Young

Go Maria Cecilia

Assistant General Manager

Cecil is assistant general manager of Dazzling Stars. She is also a trainer of Morphing Mind.

Teacher Cecil (as she is affectionally called) has always been in the education industry. Educated in the Philippines, she holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a Certificate in Teaching and has been teaching since 2002.

Besides having a certification and being a practitioner in brain development training, Cecil is also a certified teacher on Mindfulness for children and teens, trained by the most established provider of mindfulness training for schools in the United Kingdom, Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP). She specialises in their program adaptations for children and teens aged 7 to 18.

She has also been certified as Mindfulness instructor for adults after having undergone Mindfulness Certification Training™ (MCT)

Credentials

  • Bachelor of Arts, Major in Political Science
  • Certificate in Teaching Program (CTP)

Cecil taught for 10 years in both primary and secondary schools in the Philippines before she came to Singapore in 2012. She has been working in Singapore since Aug 2012, with Mr Lam under Lam Learning Hub.

Mindfulness Certifications

  • Certified PawsB1 instructor under Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP), UK
  • Certified DotB2 instructor under Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP), UK
  • Certified Mindfulness instructor for children under Growing Up Mindful program taught by Harvard University Professor.
  • Certified Mindfulness instructor for adults under Mindfulness Certification Training™ (MCT)
1 PawsB is the MiSP curriculum for students aged 7-11.
2 DotB is the MiSP curriculum for students aged 11-18.
3 MiSP is renowned for Mindfulness practices children in the UK

Annie Ang

Student Care Teacher and Science Tutor

Annie graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Honours) from the National University of Singapore and a minor in Environment Biology from the University of Toronto. She is strong in her languages as she graduated from SAP school: CHIJ St Nicholas.

Having been working in the student care since 2012, she has a vast amount of experience dealing with students from Primary 1 to Primary 6. Passionate about Science, she has taken on several Science tuition classes over the years, but she can also handle Maths and English tuition classes.

She has attended preparatory sessions to be a Morphing Mind trainer.

Qualifications

  • Learning to Learn Better, National University of Singapore
  • Support the Development of Children 7-14 years, Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ), Singapore Polytechnic
  • Respond to Illness, Accidents and Emergencies, Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications (WSQ), Singapore Polytechnic
  • Child First Aid Certification, St John Singapore

Courses

A believer in lifelong learning, Annie has attended several courses with the aim to improve her teaching, some of which are as follows:

  • Classroom Management
  • Handling Children with Learning Difficulties
  • Planning and Delivering Effective Classroom Teaching
  • Brain Based Learning and Memory Training
  • Cognitive Development Training, Arte Sensorial Pte Ltd
  • Foundations of Mindfulness, Arte Sensorial Pte Ltd
  • Zentangle Art for Beginners, Arte Sensorial Pte Ltd

He Qianran

Student Care Teacher and Chinese Tutor

Qianran (also known as 贺老师) has been a teacher at Dazzling Stars. She has graduated with a Diploma in Early Childhood Education from Shanghai, China. She is one of the form teachers for Student Care and is the go-to teacher for all primary school level Chinese tuition classes.

She believes that practice makes perfect and always encourages students to try their best.

Courses

Qianran herself has also attended trainings to help her improve her teaching skills:

  • Classroom Management
  • Handling Children with Learning Difficulties
  • Planning and Delivering Effective Classroom Teaching
  • Brain Based Learning and Memory Training
  • Cognitive Development Training, Arte Sensorial Pte Ltd
  • Foundations of Mindfulness, Arte Sensorial Pte Ltd
  • Zentangle Art for Beginners, Arte Sensorial Pte Ltd