Posts Tagged ‘diversity’
Dr. Julia Kukard
Dr. Julia Kukard is a founding partner of Aephoria and a leadership and inclusion professional. With almost 30 years of experience in learning and development, she has worked globally including in South Africa, UK, Lesotho, Ghana, France, Uganda, Netherlands, Brazil, India, UAE and China with multinationals, nationals, governments and NGOs. Julia’s experience includes working with…
Read MoreDiversity and Resilience in Complexity
Lucille Greeff hosts Sharon Shakung for the WorldsView OD Talk on 17 June 2020 Diversity in society and in organisations is not a new phenomenon. Neither is resilience. While both seem to have taken center stage in conversations and dialogues in recent times, they are age-old occurrences and so is the connection between them. As…
Read MoreConversations With Elders: Episode 6 (Ft Lucille Greeff)
Lucille Greeff Lucille Greeff is a Chartered Organisation Development (OD) practitioner and leadership development specialist. She is a Director with Aephoria Partners and an Enneagram teacher and practitioner. Her work focuses on leadership maturation, systems maturation, diversity and inclusion and personal transformation. She is the co-author of the Aephoria Identity Map, an assessment used globally…
Read MoreConversations With Elders: Episode 4 (Ft Claire Creighton)
Claire Creighton is on a mission to help people remember who they are and to live with purpose from their heart. She does this through Shamanic Soul Retrieval healing, teaching Shamanic Journey workshops, Surrendering into the Heart meditation courses and Live with Purpose courses. Claire Creighton is a shamanic healer. She studied EFT (emotional freedom…
Read MoreConversations With Elders: Episode 3 (Ft Nina Callaghan)
Nina Callaghan is the South African Chair for the Children’s Radio Foundation. Before that she was a TV journalist at ENCA for eight years. And before that, a theatre performer, a life she still dabbles in from time to time. Nina Callaghan is also a board member for Open Streets Cape Town and sits on…
Read MoreConversations with Elders: Episode 2 (Ft Rod Suskin)
Rod Suskin is well known as an astrologer and sangoma in Cape Town and has been in practice in both fields for over 30 years. He has a special interest in traditional medicine both in the African and European contexts, and his interest in medical astrology has led him to study the history of medicine…
Read MoreOD practitioners creating inclusive & equitable societies
The past month has been a difficult, challenging and shocking time for people living in South Africa. As many of the xenophobic attacks and brutal cases of Gender Based Violence (GBV) have played out in society at large, organisations have been affected in many different ways. As a OD practitioner I do work in one…
Read MoreWhy it is still important to talk about race – A white perspective
Our work at Aephoria is all about maturing humans and organisational systems. Often in our facilitation this requires us to talk about issues of diversity and inclusion and race in particular. I’ve been reflecting on the way in which white workshop participants sometimes respond to this. Maybe I feel a bit like the clairvoyant Rodrigues…
Read MoreBiko for White People
At Aephoria Partners we use the work of Steve Biko in our leadership development processes and are often asked by participants: what relevance does Biko have for white people – did he not say that white people have no role to play in the struggle – was he not racist? Well, here is one very simple answer to this question based on my interpretation of his work.
Read More