Training & consultation · Siem Reap
Practical training in child and adolescent mental health for schools, NGOs and community organisations in Cambodia.
Discuss training for your teamDeveloped by Andrew Duggan · Founder, Narrative Solutions Cambodia
How I can help
Workshops, facilitated groups and professional consultation for schools, NGOs and community organisations. Staff wellbeing and transition sessions are also available for tourism and hospitality teams.
Each piece of work begins with a discussion of your setting, the people involved and what you would like to be different.
Develop mental health literacy and practical skills for recognising distress, opening supportive conversations and responding within your role. Sessions include safeguarding and knowing when further help is needed.
For teachers, NGO staff, social workers and community teams.
Explore workload, emotional demands and the support already available within a team. Identify practical ways colleagues can help one another and build on occasions when work feels more manageable.
For school and special needs education staff, NGO teams and hospitality teams.
Review how your school supports student wellbeing, responds to concerns and works with families. Explore strengths-based language, inclusive responses and clearer routes to additional support.
For school leaders, inclusion teams and NGO education partners.
Practical workshops that help adults respond to difficulties without defining a child by their behaviour. Explore what is already working, supportive communication and small changes families can try.
For international and Cambodian parents and carers; school parent groups.
Facilitated sessions for people facing relocation, changes at work or family transitions. Use narrative and solution-focused questions to recognise existing resources, clarify what matters and identify useful next steps.
For teachers, parents, expats and tourism or hospitality teams.
Reflect on your work and develop narrative and solution-focused skills: listening carefully, asking useful questions, noticing strengths and helping people describe the changes they want.
For educators, social workers, counsellors and other helping professionals.
Half-day and full-day workshops, single sessions, a series of group sessions, or ongoing professional consultation. Available in person in Siem Reap or online, with content and format agreed around your needs.
Discuss training or consultation ↗A workshop in Siem Reap
Resiliency in Special Education Teaching brought special needs education staff together to explore everyday pressures, existing strengths and practical ways to support one another.
The session used a four-part Sustainable Resilience Loop: notice the strain, find what is working, connect with colleagues and take one small step. Activities included peer coping cards and a personal resilience planning exercise.
Participant feedback
Excerpts from feedback shared after the workshop.
“I left the training feeling re-energized, equipped with practical tools like the Peer Coping Cards, and confident that resilience is a skill I can actively practice and build every day.”
Workshop participant · Siem Reap
“Instead of falling into standard venting loops, my colleagues and I now have a structured way to share coping mechanisms and ask each other how we successfully manage tough moments.”
Workshop participant · Siem Reap
Discuss a workshop for your team ↗Working in the Cambodian context
My work is informed by Cambodia’s Mental Health Strategic Plan 2023–2032, including its emphasis on mental health promotion, prevention and stronger community-based support.
For Narrative Solutions Cambodia, this means developing practical training for the adults around children, building mental health literacy and listening to Cambodian colleagues about what is useful in their own settings.
Read the Ministry of Health’s Mental Health Strategic Plan 2023–2032 ↗“The person is not the problem.
The problem is the problem.”
Michael White
A guiding principle of narrative practice.
“Problem talk creates problems. Solution talk creates solutions.”
Steve de Shazer
A solution-focused perspective.
The approach
Children, families and frontline staff bring knowledge that deserves to be heard. My work draws on narrative and solution-focused approaches to help people recognise strengths and consider what could make a difference.
My solution-focused work draws on the approach developed by Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg and their colleagues: exploring what people want to be different and noticing what is already helping.
About solution-focused practice ↗See the ideas in practice
My Facebook page and YouTube channel provide short video examples of narrative and solution-focused ideas, alongside reflections on supporting children, families and the adults around them in Cambodia.
About the founder
MSc in Child Mental Health
Postgraduate in Narrative Therapy and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
I founded Narrative Solutions Cambodia in Siem Reap to develop training and consultation in child and adolescent mental health.
My background includes more than 30 years of clinical and education experience in the UK, including NHS child and adolescent mental health services and university teaching.
I also spent 11 years teaching in higher education in China, adding experience of working across languages, cultures and education systems.
My focus is on helping the adults around children develop practical skills, with attention to local circumstances and the knowledge of Cambodian colleagues.
Read my professional profile on LinkedIn ↗Start a conversation
Get in touch to discuss training or consultation for your school or organisation.
Email
andrew@narrativesolutionskh.com
Phone · Cambodia
015 863 983
International: +855 15 863 983
Telegram
Andrew Duggan · +855 15 863 983
WhatsApp · Narrative Solutions ↗
Contact Andrew on LinkedIn ↗In your message, include your organisation, who the training is for and the topics you would like to explore.Based in Siem Reap, Cambodia.