By Jai Thade, Head of Content Here’s a question to reflect on: do you feel lonely? This question is a crucial one because feeling a sense of loneliness & isolation is not just painful, it is dangerous. Research indicates that it can be as
By Pooja Khajuria, Consultant The charity sector supports a diverse range of communities, people and causes, and yet this diversity is not reflected in its personnel, particularly at the management level. Despite repeated attempts at drawing attention to this disparity, the representation and experience
By Pooja Khajuria, Consultant The thing with difficult conversations is that nobody ever wants to have them, especially if you are like me and dread even the slightest of tensions in relationships, even though we know that avoiding them will only make things worse.
By Jai Thade, Head of Content Think of an imaginary line. On the one extreme of this line, picture a time when you were in your most stressed state. Being in deep sleep (i.e. the polar opposite of that) can be situated on the
By Manasi Bharati, Content Consultant Recently, I had a day of back-to-back meetings that lasted for hours. At the start of the day, I was pumped up to have so many different interactions, on distinct projects, with people across several parts of the globe –
By Ora Rammala, D&I Consultant In the year post-2020, how have we furthered anti-racism? How much responsibility and action has actually taken place? How much are companies and corporations working towards anti-racism? Performative allyship is not enough, yet the cognitive dissonance organisations have accumulated has
By Caitlin Bethell, Head of Psychology On May 25th, 2020, video footage circulated around the world showing the murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police. Floyd could be heard pleading “I can’t breathe” a total of 28 times. These were
By Jai Thade, Head of Content In recent years, a growing number of organisations have begun to take steps to drive racial inclusion. This process was of course hastened, and its need made more widespread in the wake of George Floyd’s death and protests that
Insights from our event On the 14th of September, our consultant, Ora Rammala hosted an event, Keeping up the momentum: representation and inclusion of South African women in business. The conversation was an open and vulnerable reflection on South Africa Women’s Month and the manifestations
By Jai Thade, Head of Content Completely getting rid of negative thoughts & feelings is almost impossible. This is because we’ve evolved a brain over millions of years whose primary purpose is threat detection. Living in a hostile and unpredictable world – which is