About Us

Farid is the co-founder, managing consultant and principal trainer of Ithaca Pte Ltd, with over 28 years of experience in training, development and consulting across Asia, Australasia, Africa & South America. A law honours graduate of the National University of Singapore, he served as a criminal investigator, Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel before pursuing his passion for education, experiential learning and facilitation. His leadership roles have included Deputy Director positions with the People’s Association and Outward Bound Singapore and founding Director of the Singapore International Foundation’s Youth Expedition Project. He also helped establish Outward Bound Brunei Darussalam and has taught at the National Institute of Education and Republic Polytechnic. An Associate of Singapore’s Civil Service College since 2023, Farid provides consultancy and training for civil servants and government agencies. In Australia, he regularly delivers cultural competency and interfaith programmes at the Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council and the Toowoomba Multicultural and Multi-faith Centre. His commitment to community service spans interfaith understanding, marine conservation and emergency response, including past roles with the Harmony Centre, Singapore Canoe Federation and Blue Plan Committee. He currently serves on the boards of the Centre for Interfaith Understanding and One World United Foundation, and volunteers operationally with the Victoria State Emergency Service.

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Debra has been in Education for over 35 years, first as a teacher and subsequently as a counsellor in a secondary school. Her initial stint in the pre-University Centre led to working in secondary schools and a passion in Pastoral Care and Career Guidance (PCCG), now called Citizenship and Character Education (CCE). This has built and shaped her expertise in working with youth. In her mid-career stint at MOE HQ as a Guidance Officer, she also developed her adult training skills. Having had a taste of the valuable work outside the classroom, she trained as a counsellor and worked in schools providing counselling and other programmes till her retirement. A brief foray into private education honed these skills further as a trainer and adjunct lecturer. In addition to a Master in Guidance and Counselling, She has undertaken courses in various areas of counselling including Counselling Psychology, Education and Career Guidance, Life-skills, Grief and Loss and Emergency Behaviour Management. Family needs have also motivated her to pursue courses in Dyslexia Intervention and Understanding Dementia. Her more recent pursuits have been in The Essentials of Thanatology: Death, Dying and Bereavement and The Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma. Married with 2 adult children, she continues to pursue her other interests in interfaith work, facilitating difficult conversations, travelling, painting and writing while still contributing to working with youth and society like supporting those befriending the elderly in training, workshops and facilitating conversations. Her wish is to continue to continue to be able to give, grow, experience awe and wonder, remain connected and nurture relationships at a pace that she can savour with gratitude.

Geraldine was trained in Geographical Information Systems, Community Forestry and Conservation & Environmental Management at Yale University (Masters Degree), State University of New York at Binghamton as well as Federation University, Australia. Together with Farid, she established Ithaca Pte Ltd in 2006. After a stint as a Research Scientist at the Centre for Remote Sensing at the National University of Singapore, she consulted for Black & Veatch Pte Ltd and the Asian Development Bank. Her project sites included Singapore, Aceh, Sumatra, Kalimantan in Indonesia and Sikkim, India. She also managed over 800 volunteers & 20 international community development programmes in India, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia and Bhutan with the Singapore International Foundation. Geraldine facilitates environmental and interfaith programmes at Ithaca Pte as well as managing its Administration & Finance. She is married with two daughters and continues to volunteer operationally with the Victoria State Emergency Service as well as "Our Hidden Orchard" in Australia.

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Vyna is an award-winning educator with more than 20 years of experience in education, training and adult learning. She has taught at tertiary and institutes of higher learning, and most recently at the National University of Singapore. Her teaching areas and curriculum development expertise include Economics, ASEAN studies, interpersonal communication, critical thinking and design thinking. She is also a facilitator who has worked with participants from government ministries, corporations, non-governmental organisations and educational institutions. Her training experience includes working with ASEAN partners and educators in Singapore, Indonesia and the Maldives. She brings particular strength in designing and delivering engaging, student- and participant-centred workshops that create opportunities for dialogue, reflection and collaborative learning, drawing on face-to-face, experiential, blended and online approaches.

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