Welcome to WiseAct.com.au
As a nationally registered Australian organisation, Wise-Act is a learning community where you are facilitated with inner wisdom and abilities to become a better of yourself. We’re a knowledge-based centre for people who are willing to develop and maintain their mental health, psychological techniques and skills of self-helping and helping others as well.
Being full membership registered with Australian Counselling Association (ACA), we can help you develop the essential abilities that contribute to your wellness and success in your academic performance, interpersonal relationship management, emotional regulation and more...
Grow yourself. Develop your abilities through practice.
Together, we make it happen!
Welcome to Wise-Act programmes!
We are a learning community for those who care about their significant others and themselves and wish to learn powerful strategies, techniques, and skills to deal with challenges and difficulties in their daily activities.
We have specialized services and training programmes that may satisfy your need. Each of them is an integrated approach grounded on the outcomes of evidence-based research and resources associated with solutions to various psychological problems that exist in individuals, families and educational settings.
For example, our counselling service may help individuals, groups and families explore their issue, discover their potentialities within themselves, and assist them overcoming challenge such as interpersonal problem, emotional dysregulation and personality disorders that have not yet developed into serious mental illness. The counselling service is particularly able to satisfy the clients of cultural diversity because clients are free to choose either English or Chinese as the communicative language with our counsellor. This makes our counselling service more helpful for those students who study in Australia and New Zealand as we may build up alliance faster without the language and cultural barriers.
Psycho-educational training programmes are designed for students, educators, parents and caregivers. Through a step-by-step practical training, these programmes may proactively assist students of all levels to develop abilities and apply techniques and skills for their personal, educational, and social growth during their school years and beyond. Some of the programmes also include training for parents and educators as we believe successful education is built upon the effective relationship among students, educators, and parents. When they have been facilitated with the right knowledge and tools to apply in their classroom, family and any other settings, they can make a difference in their life. In addition, we believe the knowledge and skills you learn will make contributions to your wellness and success in your academic performance, interpersonal relationship management, emotional regulation and more...
Develop your skill.
Grow yourself.
Help others.
Together, we make it happen!
Acculturation refers to the process of two cultures coming into contact with each other and thus bringing impact on the language, behaviour, and beliefs of the person who is experiencing the host culture. In a sense, this process may be viewed as a form of cultural assimilation. That is, a person’s “home” culture is taken into another culture until he/she has little or no remaining cultural identity. However, this may make us feel pessimistic thinking about acculturation. As a matter of fact, a mature culture may bear the characteristics of being tenacious and coherent. Interestingly and fortunately, the general definition of the term also implies that although the minority culture is often more heavily impacted than the majority one both cultures might impact each other equally.
Sojourners or expatriates are the terms that refer to the people staying in a host culture. Acculturation as an international phenomenon, has been attracting many studies in anthropology, cultural ethnography, history etc., and great achievement has been made. For example, in the process of acculturation, Robin Scarcella proposes a four-stage theory of acculturation. These 4 stages include “honeymoon”, “culture shock”, “adjustment” and the fully acculturation stage. Some other researchers also provide their theories on acculturation as well. Understanding these theories may help us overcome culture shock and make a positive contribution to a more pleasant and successful experience of living or study in a host country.
Every year there are many people from world wide coming to visit, study and live in Australia and New Zealand. International students and immigrants from China are one major group among those expatriates. In the process of acculturation, they have many stories to share. No matter they are negative or positive, stand or fall, these stories would deserve attention for us as they show the indomitable, harmonious and cooperative spirits of Chinese collectivism and some unique nature of Chinese culture as well. The following blogs are efforts to present, discuss and analyze what difficulties the sojourners, in particular, students from China may experience in their process of acculturation and how they may do to overcome these difficulties effectively. Some information on helping resources in Australia and New Zealand will also be presented.
Through our counselling service and psychoeducational training, we can provide teachers, students, parents and caregivers with the right knowledge and tools to apply in classrooms, families and any other settings so as to make a difference in life. That is, being facilitated with inner wisdom and strength such as high level of emotional intelligence, positive mindset, effective problem-solving ability, assertive communication skill and mindfulness practice, all of us in this learning community will make a change in our real-life settings.
Students, in particular, those studying in a western country will benefit from our counselling service as we may work with you through our service either in English or Chinese depending on your option. Moreover, cultural competency is one important factor contributing to the effectiveness of counselling service. Either the student or the counsellor should genuinely understand each other in terms of what the counsellor really means and what the students really desire to achieve. This genuine understanding includes but is not limited to tone of voice, the words used, the body language etc, and the most important, the meaning behind and the way of thinking. It is not unusual that people from different cultural background may find it is hard to understand each other. In our counselling service, the RESPECTFUL Model works as a guideline addressing cultural diversity and we take the person-centred perspective, remain an open mind and respectful attitude towards clients without judgment throughout the sessions.
Parents of international students definitely hope their younger generation enjoy a peaceful and successful stay in a western country. They are more than happy to pay for it. However, for many parents it is almost impossible to accomplish such a wish to make themselves feel at ease due to the long distance, let alone the psychological gap between some parents and their offspring.
How international students should do to enjoy a peaceful and successful life in a host country receives great attention. Scholars propose their theories, governments and educational institutions provide help to international students to overcome challenges such as cultural shock and language barrier. However, each students as a unique individual person, has individual attributes, goals, needs and experience in their acculturation. Counselling as a customized and professional service, may help students with their acculturation based on their uniqueness. This special advantage should be highlighted as students can make a good use of it during their stay in the host country.
Wise-Act is sincerely welcoming you to join our learning community in achieving your goals of either developing your mental health or pursuing your success in academic performance, interpersonal relationship and emotional regulation. Please contact us for discussing our services, giving us your feedback for any of your comments, suggestions. All your information will be confidentially used for communications between you and us only!
