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What Participants Say

In Their Own Words

Accounts from adults who have attended Stillmoor programmes — what they came hoping for, and what they actually found.

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Participant Accounts

What Participants Have Shared With Us

These are drawn from written feedback collected after programme completion. Names and details are shared with permission.

"I came expecting a financial planning workshop and found something quite different — more like a structured conversation about what I actually want from the next fifteen years. That distinction matters. I left with questions I hadn't thought to ask, not just answers to the ones I'd already had."

LT

Lim Teck Soon

Petaling Jaya · Weekend Programme

April 2025

"The Reading Group was the right pace for me. I am not someone who learns well from presentations, but I do think deeply when I have something worth reading in front of me. The facilitation was thoughtful — the conversations went to places I didn't expect. I have recommended it to two colleagues already."

RM

Radziah Mohd Noor

Ampang · Reading Group

March 2025

"My wife and I did the Cohort together. The exercises around household mapping — who does what, and what changes when work stops — were genuinely uncomfortable to work through, which I think means they were exactly what we needed. We had conversations we had been putting off for years."

CK

Chong Kah Wai

Subang Jaya · Cohort Programme

February 2025

"I appreciated that nobody tried to sell me anything. That sounds like a low bar, but given where else I had looked, it wasn't. The facilitator was genuinely curious about the group's different situations — it felt like being in a properly run discussion, not a presentation with questions allowed at the end."

NS

Norizan Shamsuddin

Kuala Lumpur · Weekend Programme

April 2025

"The workbook is something I keep returning to. I've written in the margins, crossed things out, added notes. It's become a kind of record of how my thinking has changed over the months since the programme ended. That kind of staying power isn't something I expected going in."

VR

Vijayarani Ramasamy

Shah Alam · Cohort Programme

January 2025

"I was skeptical before attending. I've been to too many seminars where the first hour is fine and the rest is a pitch. Stillmoor was different from the very first session. The people in the room were at similar life stages, and that shared context made the conversation more honest than I expected."

TF

Tan Foo Keong

Kepong · Reading Group

March 2025

Participant Journeys

Longer Accounts

Some participants agreed to share a more complete account of their experience. These are edited for length with their knowledge and approval.

Starting Point

Azman, 57, had been in the same management role for over two decades. He described feeling increasingly uncertain about what retirement would mean for his sense of purpose — not financially, but in terms of identity. He had not spoken about this with anyone.

What He Found

The Cohort programme gave Azman a framework to think through the question of purpose alongside a group of peers facing similar uncertainties. The journaling exercises, in particular, helped him name things he had kept vague in his own mind.

Afterwards

Six months after completing the programme, Azman returned for the optional review session. He described having begun several conversations with his wife and adult children that he had been deferring for years. He returned as a reference participant for an incoming cohort.

"The programme didn't tell me what to do next. But it helped me see clearly enough to figure that out for myself."

— Azman Zulkifli, Bangsar, Cohort Programme (2024)

Starting Point

Soo Lin, 54, attended the Reading Group after her younger sister, who had attended the weekend programme the year before, suggested it. She was an avid reader and felt that a conversation-based format suited her better than a structured course.

What She Found

She describes the reading material as some of the best she encountered on the topic — drawing from sources she would not have found on her own. The group itself she found to be "an unusually honest set of conversations for a group of near-strangers."

Afterwards

Soo Lin has continued subscribing to the quarterly newsletter and wrote to recommend two specific essays from the programme reading list to colleagues who asked her what she had been reading. She describes the experience as "slow but genuinely useful."

"I read a lot. This was better-curated than most things I would have chosen myself."

— Soo Lin Goh, Damansara, Reading Group (2024)

By the Numbers

What Seven Years of Programmes Look Like

340+

Participants since 2018

4.7

Average post-programme rating

91%

Would recommend to a peer

42

Cohorts completed

Malaysia Adult Learning Forum Recognition (2022)

Cited for small-group facilitation methodology in continuing adult education.

PDPA 2010 Compliant

All participant data managed in accordance with Malaysia's Personal Data Protection Act.

Member — Malaysian Association of Continuing Education

Participating organisation in the national adult and continuing education network.

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