Free for members • SGD88 for non-members
Thursday, 13 Aug 2026
12:00pm SGT/MYT/HKT • 02:00pm AEST
Online via Zoom
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As a business grows, what initially felt exciting, meaningful, or joyful can gradually be shaped by stress, performance pressure, comparison, deadlines, visibility, and increased responsibility.
Drawing on insights from sexology about relationships, pleasure, joy, and the stories we carry about these themes, this masterclass invites business founders to reflect on how their relationship with pleasure and joy shapes the way they work, rest, lead, create, and sustain themselves.
Through reflective and creative prompts, participants are invited to reconnect with what feels meaningful, pleasurable, and alive in their work, while exploring what may have become heavy, blocked, or burdensome.
This masterclass is suitable for business founders and entrepreneurs seeking a guided, introspective space to explore pleasure, joy, and sustainability in how they build their business. Participants are encouraged to bring basic art supplies to support the reflective process. No prior art experience is required.
1. Recognise the importance of pleasure and joy in life and business
Explore pleasure and joy as sources of aliveness, creativity, meaning, connection, and nourishment — not as distractions from serious work.
2. Recognise the stories you carry around joy and pleasure
Notice internal narratives that may block access to pleasure and joy, such as “I will rest later,” “I must always optimise,” “joy is not productive,” “pleasure is indulgent,” or “my worth depends on my output.”
3. Explore what blocks pleasure and joy
Reflect on how personal narratives, generational messages, cultural expectations, comparison, and responsibility may shape how you work, lead, and relate to your business.
4. Explore what still feels alive in your business
Reflect on the aspects of your work that evoke energy, curiosity, creativity, contribution, fulfilment, or a sense of purpose.
5. Reconnect through experiential and creative reflection
Use an object, image-making exercise, or reflective activity to connect with a felt sense of pleasure, joy, ease, or aliveness, and consider how these qualities may be gently incorporated into the way you build your business.
Sexologist, Sex Coach, and Art Psychotherapist
Dian is a sexologist, sex coach, and art psychotherapist based in Singapore, with over 15 years of clinical experience. After more than a decade working in the public sector, she established her private practice, Nambani. Her approach integrates various methods, including Somatic Experiencing®, Jungian psychology, and coaching.
As a published author, Dian has contributed chapters on sexual shame to a book about solution-focused coaching in Asia, and on sexuality and intimacy to “The Breast Years of Your Life: Living Well After Cancer.”
Her work centres on collaborating with clients to address sexual and relationship issues, including body image, confidence, performance anxiety, erectile problems, sex pain, cultural differences, and mid-life relationship changes. Dian aims to help clients gain clarity and confidence in their intimate lives.
