Where Science Meets Soul,
Mind, Machine and Meaning Meet;
Making Care Human Again
About Us
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Alternative.Minds Ltd. is a practice-based, non-profit organisation dedicated to advancing systemic psychotherapy and care research in Singapore and across the region.
We are a Company Limited by Guarantee (CLG) under the umbrella of Hayaa' Network, carrying forward its commitment to healing, reflection, and community transformation.
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We believe that care must evolve and remain attuned to the realities of our time.
Families, practitioners, and researchers come together here to deepen knowledge that strengthens emotional, spiritual, and social wellbeing.
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At Alternative.Minds, we bridge lived experience with neuroscience, culture, and technology, exploring how both human and artificial intelligence shape the way we think, feel, and relate.
We are a practice-research community rooted in Singapore and expanding across Asia. Our directors are practitioners, researchers, and citizens who believe that care cannot be separated from context; that every act of healing is a conversation between science, spirit, society, and policy.
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Our volunteers are movers of care; people who give, listen, and learn, helping to balance the weight of care with compassion and courage. We engage with people, process complexity, and produce insights that strengthen care across communities.
Together we attune our practice to context and ethics, building relational systems of care that are reflexive, sustainable and responsive to our evolving communities.
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Through practice-based research and more than a decade of Warm Data Labs, we turn lived experience into shared knowledge for Singapore, the region, and the world.
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Welcome to Alternative Minds, where care becomes a shared learning and care; like knowledge, grows, when shared.
Our Vision
Cultivate communities of care and transformation where individuals, families and institutions flourish though relational well being and systemic insight
Our Ethos
We stand at the intersections of what makes care truly human:
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Therapy & Research
Bridging practice and inquiry so that what we learn in the room shapes how we care in the world.
Science & Spirituality
Integrating neural, emotional, and spiritual dimensions to honour the fullness of human experience.
Individual & Collective
Recognising that wellness is co-created, relational, and shaped by the systems we live in.
Asia & the World
Rooted in local realities, contributing to regional learning, and resonating globally.
Our model of care is informed by neuro-spiritual-social-emotional understanding, grounded in lived practice, and strengthened by ongoing research. It is relational, reflexive, decolonial, and inclusive — a response to the complexity of being human in a changing world. At Alternative.Minds, we carry a simple commitment: to build systems of care that learn, adapt, and remain deeply humane.
At Alternative Minds,
we believe that
healing is
systemic and
relational,
not individualistic.
“When we learn to care differently,
the systems we live in begin to heal.”
Our Philosophy
Healing is systemic,
Healing is relational,
Healing is co-created.
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At Alternative.Minds, our philosophy is shaped by four essential intersections. These guide every conversation, intervention, programme, and research initiative we offer. They reflect how we understand people, how we work with complexity, and how we hold care in a rapidly changing world.
1. Therapy & Research
At Alternative.Minds, we do not separate care from learning. Every therapeutic encounter is a site of reflection. Every practitioner question becomes a doorway into research. What happens in the therapy room teaches us how care moves through families, communities, schools, workplaces, and society.
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Likewise, our research through Warm Data Labs, case reflections, and systemic inquiry flows back into practice, refining how we listen, respond, and accompany.
This creates a living loop of care, where practitioners don’t just apply models; they evolve them.
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Why it matters:
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It prevents therapy from becoming mechanical or rigid.
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It keeps our care responsive to real-world conditions.
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It ensures that knowledge grows from lived experience, not abstract theory.
This intersection keeps Alternative.Minds alive, learning, adaptive, and ethical.
3. Individual & Collective
No one heals alone because no one suffers alone.
People live within systems: families, workplaces, cultures, faith communities, digital environments, and societal pressures. Distress often arises not from “personal flaws” but from relational patterns, histories, expectations, and unspoken tensions.
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We see individuals not as isolated minds but as participants in complex relational ecologies.
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Why it matters:
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It prevents pathologising individuals for systemic issues.
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It brings compassion toward behaviours shaped by survival.
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It allows families and communities to be part of the healing, not obstacles to it.
At Alternative.Minds, care is something we create together through relationships, insight, and shared accountability.
2. Science & Spirituality
We recognise that humans are not purely psychological beings. We are neurobiological, emotional, cultural, spiritual, and relational all at once. Every choice, fear, desire, or conflict is shaped by the nervous system, the story we carry, the meanings we hold, and the beliefs that give us purpose.
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At Alternative.Minds, we honour both:
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science, which helps us understand the brain, the body, trauma, memory, emotion, and behavioural patterns
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spirituality, which helps us understand meaning, morality, conscience, connection, hope, and the soul
We bring these dimensions together with gentleness and intelligence.
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Why it matters:
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It respects clients whose distress is emotional and existential.
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It allows cultural and faith-based clients to feel safe and understood.
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It creates care that is grounded, not reductionistic.
We hold that healing is most powerful when science meets soul.
4. Asia & The World
We are based in Singapore — a multicultural, multilingual, multi-faith, technologically advanced society. Our work is shaped by this context: family structures, religious identities, social norms, modern pressures, and the complexity of living in a globalised yet culturally anchored world.
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At the same time, we are informed by global systemic thinking, international research, and cross-cultural collaboration through networks like the International Bateson Institute.
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Why it matters:
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It ensures therapy makes sense for Asian families and realities.
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It prevents importing Western therapy models without context.
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It encourages decolonial, culturally responsible care.
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It allows us to contribute meaningfully to global discourse.
We honour the wisdom that emerges when local practice meets global conversation.
Let's Connect
Your Journey Begins Here
We welcome your questions, collaboration ideas and stories. Reach out and join us in weaving a future of relational healing and systemic care.
Complete the form, or write to us at hello@thealternativeminds.com
