I facilitate transformative workshops, host and moderate panels, and provide keynote speeches for corporates, universities, schools and non-governmental organisations. I am regularly quoted in media on issues of diversity, social cohesion, reconciliation and social justice.

Facilitation is the process of holding space for groups of individuals figuring out how to share space together in ways that are equitable and foster belonging.

My work is about accompanying individuals and groups in their journey towards building a community that embraces diversity and values all members of a team. I have been trained in various coaching and facilitation methodologies to facilitate trauma-informed, difficult conversations on race, class and gender, including Digital Storytelling, Gender Reconciliation, Open Design, Constellations, Time to Think, and Design Thinking, among others. Over the past ten years, I have developed a unique methodology, Rehumanising Dialogue for Change, that addresses what I believe are the four key tenants of fostering a safe and inclusive space for learning: Emotional Grounding, Storytelling, History, and Tools for Dialogue. Learn more about the Rehumanising Dialogue for Change model.

Universities

I provide Leadership Training for new Heads of Department, lead Team Building Workshops, Strategy Workshops and other Organisational Development workshops and processes including Institutional Mapping at universities across South Africa.

I have been a full-time media academic at the University of Witwatersrand and Cape Peninsula University (CPUT) where I was also involved in efforts to decolonise the academy. This work led to an academic project on student staff partnerships . In this time, I facilitated workshops including conducting a white privilege walk with more than 200 student leaders and running workshops for university residence leaders focused on race, gender and social cohesion. I have also developed curriculum interventions at various departments including in an architecture department, where we looked at the ways in which social justice conversations can be integrated into built environment training and development, which was reflected in an academic article. I have also run decolonising the curriculum workshops at other university departments and a fashion school where I focused on supporting staff to build socially and contextually relevant curriculum while building healthy student staff relationships and classroom experiences.

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Corporates

I provide keynote speeches and facilitate organisational development workshops, short – term and long – term processes for corporate clients.

In my work, I help people re-thread social relations and transform conflict while highlighting social inequality, its underpinning structures and injustices in the workplace and everyday life. I also

In my work, I focus on making the invisible visible while supporting organisations to understand themselves, build better relations and engage conflict with curiosity. I also support teams to build the capacity to stay in difficult conversations without fragmentation and develop a shared language for navigating tension, difference and conflict. The work is not about “fixing people” but helping them to understand relationships and relationship building as a critical source of social behaviour change.

My approach to organisational development includes building somatic awareness and emotional insights, something which most OD processes neglect. This is done through emotional grounding and regulation practices that lay the groundwork for change work, and supports leaders to build regulation practices for more intentional leadership.

In my leadership development work, I support leadership move away from hierarchy and individualism toward a practise of Leadership as Collective Care Practise. Leaders who apply this framework hold the wellbeing of the system, not just outputs close. They also build cultures of accountability and support. This framework also integrates care and ethics into leadership rather than treating them as trade – offs.

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Schools

I provide long- and short-term diversity and social justice interventions for private and public schools in South Africa. These include interventions focused on the whole school community, from learners, parents, teachers, support staff and school management. I also support mediation and crisis management efforts, and have developed a Diversity and Social Justice Curriculum that has been implemented for more than five years at a private school in Johannesburg. I have reflected on diversity in schools and its impact on different groups in South Africa via various media platforms including a blog piece on Perfectionism and Girls Schools.

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Development Organisations

I facilitate dialogue for communities and other project stakeholders. I also run Team Building, Theory of Change Workshops and other Organisational Development workshops and processes for local and global non- profit organisations. I also help teams co-create across difference and work towards the same goal while implementing socially just processes in the organisation. Sessions include how to decolonise aid, white supremacy in the NGO sector, and engaging communities with promise fatigue with dignity before implementing your Theory of Change process.

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