Our Company
Built for the conversations families keep meaning to have
Kithcraft opened in Kuching with a simple idea: that a well-structured space and a skilled facilitator can make a real difference to how a household talks together.
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A workshop born from a kitchen table
Kithcraft grew out of a small reading and writing group that met in Kuching's Padungan neighbourhood in the early 2010s. The group's founders — drawn from community arts, adult education, and social work — found that the formats they were experimenting with had a quiet value beyond the texts: people left the room having said things to each other that they had been turning over privately for years.
By 2019, the group had formalised its approach into a set of repeatable conversation frameworks, drawing on community dialogue practice, reflective writing pedagogy, and plain good sense about how adults talk to one another under pressure. Kithcraft opened as a studio offering this work to households rather than to organisations.
We are not a counselling service and we make no claims about therapeutic outcomes. What we offer is structure, a skilled facilitator, and enough quiet that the conversation can find its own shape.
Our Mission
Make structured conversation more ordinary
Most of us muddle through the hardest household conversations without any particular support. Kithcraft's mission is to make facilitated conversation as ordinary a thing as taking a walk together — something you might do when the household is at a turning point, or simply when a steadier rhythm of talking seems worth having.
Community-rooted practice
Our methods come from community dialogue traditions, not from clinical or corporate frameworks.
Clear scope, no overreach
We stay within facilitation. We refer participants to appropriate professionals when a need falls outside our scope.
Genuinely local
Kuching is home. We design for the household rhythms, languages, and cultural textures of Sarawak.
The Team
The people in the room
Kithcraft's facilitators come from backgrounds in community arts, adult education, and reflective writing. All hold current facilitation credentials and participate in ongoing peer review.
Suraya Lim
Lead Facilitator
Suraya has facilitated community dialogue in Sarawak for over a decade. She leads the new-parent workshop track and trains incoming facilitators.
David Anak Jeli
Senior Facilitator
David brings a background in reflective writing and adult learning. He leads the Family of Origin Series and contributes to curriculum development.
Nabilah Rashid
Studio Coordinator
Nabilah manages bookings, participant correspondence, and the logistics of each session. She is the first point of contact for new enquiries.
Our Standards
How we work
Conversation facilitation is not a regulated profession in Malaysia, which is precisely why we hold ourselves to a set of clear, self-defined standards — and make them transparent.
Facilitator credentials
All facilitators hold recognised adult education or community dialogue credentials and participate in annual continuing practice review.
Participant confidentiality
What is shared in a session stays in the room. We operate under a clear participant confidentiality protocol reviewed by a practicing solicitor.
Scope discipline
We do not offer counselling, legal advice, medical guidance, or infant care instruction. When a participant's need falls outside facilitation, we say so plainly.
Peer review process
Facilitators meet monthly to review session materials and prompts. Curriculum is updated when community feedback or practice experience calls for it.
Data handling
Participant contact information is held only for session management and is not shared with third parties. See our Privacy Policy for full details.
Feedback and complaints
Participants may raise concerns at any time. We commit to a written response within five business days and to acting on feedback in curriculum review.
Our Practice
Facilitated conversation as a household practice
Kithcraft draws on a tradition of community dialogue that developed in adult education and civic engagement contexts across Southeast Asia and beyond. The central idea is modest but useful: that structured prompts and a skilled facilitator can give participants a way into conversations that feel difficult or unfinished in everyday life.
Our new-parent workshops developed in response to a pattern we noticed in enquiries — that many households find the early period of a child's arrival hard to navigate as a conversation, separate from the practical demands of caring for a newborn. The workshop does not address infant care. It addresses the household relationship itself, offering prompts that help partners and co-parents name what is changing and what they want more of.
The Family of Origin series serves adults at any life stage who want a thoughtful space to revisit the families they grew up in — not to arrive at conclusions, but to bring more awareness to the patterns they carry. Three sessions, a printed journal, and a follow-up note are the tools; curiosity is the only requirement.
The Yearlong Membership exists for households that find occasional workshops valuable and want to build a steadier rhythm of structured conversation into their year. It is not intensive, not therapeutic, and carries no expectation of dramatic change. It is simply a way of keeping the conversation going.
Want to know more before you enquire?
We are happy to answer questions by email or phone before you make any booking. There is no pressure to proceed.