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Library & Knowledge

A Living Archive of Care

Our Library hosts reflections, writings, and resources born from lived practice. It is a space for ongoing learning — where practice-based evidence becomes public knowledge.

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Our Mini-Book Series
(2025-2027)

The Alternative.Minds Mini-Book Series is our evolving library of systemic, reflexive writing — transforming the living lessons of therapy, supervision, and community work into accessible public knowledge.
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These mini-books invite readers into the depth of therapeutic practice:
the way emotions move, how systems speak, how culture shapes behaviour, and how care reorganises meaning. Here, writing is not simply information.


Writing becomes a relational act — a way of attending, witnessing, and thinking with the world.

 

A curated, three-year publication series of short, reflective books (25–40 pages) written for practitioners, educators, spiritual guides, and everyday readers seeking depth.

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Each mini-book follows a gentle rhythm:
Story → Inquiry → Exploration → Practice → Reflection

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2025 — Inside the Room

Where the emotional ecology of therapy meets neuroscience, rest, rupture, and repair.

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2026 — Beyond the Room

Where culture, AI, spirituality, and relational ecology shape how we live and feel.

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2027 — The System Learns to Care

Where institutions, families, and faith communities recognise their exhaustion and learn to repair.


​The Mini-Book Series sits within RISE, the research arm of Alternative.Minds.​ RISE transforms practice into insight, insight into collective wisdom and wisdom into systems capable of healingUsing systemic reflexive writing, Warm Data Labs, case reviews, relational mapping, and lived-practice inquiry, RISE builds a regional library of context-sensitive, spiritually grounded, neuro-social-emotional knowledge.

Why We Write 

Across Singapore and Southeast Asia, families, practitioners, and institutions are experiencing deep fatigue. People are overwhelmed, systems are stretched, and meaning-making has become fragmented.
 

Systemic reflexive writing offers a counter-movement.
 

It slows the pace.
It restores coherence.
It invites the reader to see themselves within a wider ecology — not as isolated individuals, but as part of interconnected systems.

 

Every piece we write helps:

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  • the practitioner reflect
     

  • the system reorganise
     

  • the family understand itself
     

  • and the community rebuild its capacity to care
     

This is how writing becomes care.

Why This Matters

Systemic reflexive writing makes the invisible visible —
the pattern beneath the pain,
the system beneath the symptom,
the humanity beneath the behaviour.

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When language expands, care expands.
When systems reflect, systems repair.

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Through these mini-books, Alternative.Minds builds a culture of care that is:

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  • relational
     

  • reflective
     

  • culturally grounded
     

  • spiritually attuned

 

  • and future-minded

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These writings are not meant to impress.
They are meant to accompany.
To help systems breathe, understand themselves, and learn how to care again.

Impact & Reach
(2025-2027)

  • 15 mini-books across 3 years
     

  • 100+ practitioner contributors
     

  • 5,000 readers locally and internationally
     

  • 1,200 participants in reflection circles & Warm Data Labs

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  • A regional Library of Systemic & Reflexive Practice

Browse:
 

 

  • Short essays and reflections from the field
  • Articles and practice notes on systemic, spiritual, and cultural care
  • Mini e-books and guides (available for download or purchase)
  • Reference texts and learning resources from our classes and labs
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