Work History

Miyen Low  –  Brief Professional Profile

Miyen Low, a clinical psychologist and one of Malaysia’s foremost proponents of the application of psychology, mindfulness and self- compassion, for individual, couple, family, workplace and community, for more than 27 years.

Pioneered Employee Assistance Program (EAP) in Malaysia since 1999, written 2 articles on EAP Development in Malaysia for an international publication, providing EAP, corporate training, coaching, crisis intervention, psychotherapy, psychological assessment, ad hoc lecturing and supervision, mindfulness and self-compassion interventions in managing stress, burnout and enhancing resilience and wellness.

She has professional memberships in Malaysian Society of Clinical Psychology, Employee Assistance Professionals Association, Asia Pacific Employee Assistance Roundtable and Malaysia Association for Mindfulness Practice and Research.

Also a trained teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion with Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, USA and an apprentice teacher of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy with Oxford Mindfulness Foundation, UK.

Over the years, her work has been featured by various local newspapers, magazines, radio and TV (regular guest for 4 years on Bella NTV7, women’s talk show).

MINDFUL LEADERSHIP:

Developing resilience and people-centered leaders

In today’s workplace, colored by high uncertainty, rapid-paced, difficult and stressful demands and more employees are unwilling to accept a purely top-down approach, call for leaders to have new ways of leading – incredibly focused and clear with business expectation, yet need to engage/provide  employees the “space” for more meaning, happiness and connectedness at work. There are three important qualities of mindful leadership – mindfulness, compassion and service:-

• MINDFULNESS helps you with focus and resilience; understand how your mind works, become more self-aware.
• COMPASSION is not about being soft; understanding people at an emotional level, truly caring about their well-being.
• SERVICE helps you to get out of the way; provides space/support where people thrive. People-centered org culture.

Put together, these three qualities are a powerful way for leaders to improve the way they lead themselves, their people, and organization. In addition, a large body of research has shown effectiveness of mindfulness and compassion practices in improving physical and mental health, in the various setting i.e. medical, mental health, education and workplace, for the last three decades.

Miyen Low’s active involvement in APAC region

A Board Member of APEAR (Asia Pacific Employee Assistance Roundtable) representing Malaysia