Phoebe Long M.W.

Phoebe Long Mei Wah is the author of The Breakthru Approach with 3P.L.A.Y., an emotional and educational modal for working with people, and a strategic approach for managing challenging behaviour. She has over 20 years of experience teaching children, teenagers and young adults who have behavioural or learning challenges.

Before this work she was council secretary to a major church in Kuala Lumpur at the age of 21. She is Montessori-trained, and has served as headmistress and principal of two kindergartens which use the FunGates system.

She is director of Breakthru Enrichment Station, a developmental centre for specially-abled children from age 3 through adulthood. She also founded Breakthru Academy Sdn Bhd, a one-stop centre in Malaysia for Specialized Kinesiology learning, and for Brain Gym, Rhythmic Movement Training, Movement Based Learning and Touch for Health.

She trains counsellors and psychologists from the Social Welfare Department (Jabatan Kebajikan Malaysia), including Rhythmic Movement Training, Movement Based Learning and 3P.L.A.Y. She also shares this work with higher learning institutes, parent support groups and non-governmental organisations: more than 70 public talks, national-school teacher training, private-college educators and students, government organisations and enrichment centres.

She has conducted training in Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan and Spain, and presented papers on 3P.L.A.Y. in Canada, England, Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Scotland, South Korea and Thailand. She was organising chair and keynote speaker of the Breakthru International 1st Virtual Annual Conference 2021, for Breakthroughs International, and has presented at Breakthroughs International annual conferences in France, Seoul, Aberdeen, Bangkok and Hong Kong.

In 2022 she presented for the India Creative Movement Therapy Association, with SNDT Women’s University of Special Education, at its 9th Annual International Conference. Her Breakthru Approach with 3P.L.A.Y. poster was 1st Runner Up at the Special Education International Conference 2019 in Putrajaya. Since 2019 her workshops and games sessions at the Malaysia International Special Education Ecosystem and Exhibition have been recognised by the university organiser.

She is the founding President of Parents And Community Empowerment Association, a non-profit that supports families of children with special needs with financial help and training. She was Vice-President of the Malaysia Brain Gym Association. She helped found, and is Advisor of, the Malaysian Specialised Kinesiology Association. She was founding and organising chair of the Special Needs Bao Bei Camp in 2010, 2012 and 2021.

Since 2020 she has consulted for the Society for the Severely Mentally Handicapped, Selangor and Federal Territory, and has run several of its projects. She is a trainer and team leader for the Rotary Club of Cheras early-intervention project for teachers and primary caregivers of children with autism, and for Rotary classroom training in multisensory therapy for national-school teachers.