Leadership Maturity & Fallback In Times of Crisis

Lucille Greeff will share her experience in the field of identity and leadership maturity during this talk, including practical ways of supporting ourselves during this time. We lead within a context and the current Covid-19 context is one that is challenging, complex and uncertain. This is the kind of context that forges who we are…

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Leading in times of crisis with Valerie Livesay

Valerie Livesay

Leading In Times Of Crisis Leadership Fallback is when a leader “falls back” to an earlier level of development where they cannot access the skills available at their usual level of maturity. Valerie found five overarching causes of fallback including; ordinary triggers, physiological brain responses, contextual gravitational pulls, challenges to identity, and unresolved trauma. The…

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Conversations With Elders: Episode 5 (Ft Simon Whitesman)

Conversations with Elders

Simon Whitesman (MBChB) Simon Whitesman practices medical psychotherapy at Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital in Cape Town. He is the coordinator of the post-graduate certificate training in Mindfulness-Based Interventions at Stellenbosch University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is a Director and Chairperson of the Institute for Mindfulness South Africa (IMISA) and co-directs the first…

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Conversations With Elders: Episode 4 (Ft Claire Creighton)

Conversations with Elders

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…

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Conversations With Elders: Episode 3 (Ft Nina Callaghan)

Conversations with Elders

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…

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Conversations with Elders: Episode 1 (Ft Mmatshilo Motsei)

Conversations with Elders

Mmatshilo Motsei is an author, speaker and spiritual life coach with a keen interest in integrating ancient teachings with modern innovations. This emphasizes the union of intuition, logic, spirit, science and community based leadership that encourages a compassionate engagement with people and the environment. For over 10 years, she worked as a founder and CEO of…

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Leading In Times Of Crisis

“……to be leaders for this time of profound disruption, [we must] reclaim leadership as a noble profession that creates possibility and humaneness in the midst of increasing fear and turmoil.  I know it is possible to experience grace and joy in the midst of tragedy and loss. I know it is possible to create Islands…

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Covid 19 : A strategy for supporting clients in this time

There have been many comments on how leaders are responding to Covid 19 and what we as coaches, therapists and OD professionals should be doing to support them (and ourselves). I have not yet seen a deeper psychological analysis that provides some practical guidance on where to look and what to do during this time…

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In memory of Marie-Noëlle Anderson.

Teacher, mentor and friend We all have friends who will die of this. We will all stare down the angel of regret and long for one more conversation one more hug, all the while being told to stay put to hold our distance. A son will be quarantined here while his mother dies alone somewhere…

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What’s your Enneagram Style?

The Enneagram is an ancient framework or map for personal transformation and insight. Enneagram literally means the “model of nine” in Greek. In recent years it has become one of the most popular ways for leadership coaches, psychologists, spiritual directors, teachers and even script writers from Hollywood to make sense of the human psyche.  …

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