Emotionally Whole Masterclasses
The Emotionally Whole Masterclass is a three-hour seminar built around Emotionally Whole: From the Mirror to the Door — designed for readers of the book and anyone working in leadership, ministry, counselling, or personal formation who wants to move from reading the material to applying it.
The book covers five emotional intelligence domains. A three-hour masterclass gives each domain proper depth, so this one focuses on the first two: self-awareness (seeing yourself truly) and self-regulation (what happens in you between being challenged and responding). Motivation, empathy and social skills are not covered in this session. The goal is not to summarise the book but to go deeper into what it opens up: practical formation, not theory.
Held 19 October 2026 · JEN Hotel, Penang
Emotionally Whole
Formation for Those Who Carry Others
The interior life of the Christian leader — a morning with Winston H.K. Chew
You already know the vocabulary of emotional health. You teach it, preach it, counsel with it. The morning was about the gap between knowing it and living it, the inner work that ministry can quietly crowd out. It offered no new techniques. Instead it gave permission to stop performing wholeness and do the honest work, together with your spouse.
What the morning covered
The Mirror: Being Searched and Known
We began with Psalm 139. Then the four selves: the self you perceive, the self those close to you experience, the self you aspire to be, and the self your community knows. Self-awareness as the gap between perception and reality, and the courage to ask God to search you rather than confirm you.
Mirrors We Can Use: Feedback
Scripture, feedback, coaching questions, memoirs and words of wisdom as mirrors. The three purposes of feedback (appreciation, coaching, evaluation) set beside the biblical purposes: teaching, reproof, correction, instruction in righteousness, restoration and honour.
The Furnace: Our First Reaction
Why our first reaction to hard feedback is biological. The body starts a threat response about 200 milliseconds before considered thought can catch up. We looked at Elijah after Mount Carmel, five common reactions (defending, discounting, counter-attacking, collapsing, performing), and the space between stimulus and response, which is short but can be widened with practice.
Participants worked with a formation partner throughout, with guided partner reflections along the way. Nothing shared at a table needed to leave it.
ATTENDED BY: Pastors · Elders · Deacons · Missionaries · Full-time Workers — and their spouses
Date
Monday, 19 October 2026
Time
9:00 am – 12:00 noon (followed by buffet lunch)
Venue
JEN Hotel, Magazine Room · Penang
Winston H.K. Chew
An ordained minister and licensed counsellor who has spent three decades between the pulpit, the counselling room, and the boardroom — teaching emotional intelligence across four continents, and sitting with people's grief. The masterclass drew on his book, Emotionally Whole: From the Mirror to the Door.
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