Christmas and New Year are just around the corner! Given the time of the year, let’s pause and consider: what is ‘Celebration’? How do you make meaning of it? Does it have to look and feel a certain way?
Join our host, Tini Fadzillah, as she dives into the heart of celebration with anthropologist Dr. Ida Fadzillah Leggett and counselling psychologist Dr. KC Lee.In this episode, Dr. Leggett started the conversation with her insight into the history of celebration and Dr. Lee talked about the impact of celebration on our well-being. But then, the conversation leads to the emotional polarities of celebration. What are they?
As you listen to this podcast, we invite you to reflect on how you want to complete your year; what are you celebrating this year? At the end of the conversation, share with us, what did you discover in the heart of celebration?
About our guests:
Dr. Ida Fadzillah Leggett is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She received her PhD in 2003 from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her MA in Anthropology with a concentration in Southeast Asian Studies from Northern Illinois University. Originally from Malaysia, her research focuses on the effects of globalization and transnationalism on Southeast Asian youth’s– especially girls’—experience and interpretation of their world. Her publications include an edited volume on Field Stories: Experiences, Affect, and the Lessons of Anthropology in the Twenty-First Century (2021, Lexington Press), and articles on children and the experience of mundane violence, girls and the power of imagined futures, and the education of refugee youth in the Southern US. She is currently working on a monograph on girl cultures.
KC Lee, DPsych, CPsychol, MSc, MSocSc, is a UK-registered psychologist based in Singapore. He helps clients explore and build on their own unique experience, values, culture and social context, to make changes and create the life they want.
He is energetic, interested and dynamic, and he takes a light touch but focused approach in helping people uncover their own source of energy, meaning and direction in life. Having worked in London, Singapore, Shanghai and Ningbo, China, Dr. Lee is experienced in working with young adults, working professionals, couples and family units with diverse backgrounds and a wide range of concerns. Drawing from his own work experience in aviation, healthcare, and tertiary education sectors, Dr. Lee also delivers a number of trainings for corporations, NGOs and general public. He is registered with the UK’s Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), and he is also a full chartered psychologist with the British Psychological Society (BPS).