Group Coaching for DEI Practitioners (a series of six 2-hour sessions online)

What?

If you are looking for a safe space to reflect and learn with fellow DEI practitioners, we invite you to join us for our new online Group Coaching process.

Over a series of six 2-hour sessions, we will:

• share cases and identify good practices
• try out new approaches, tools and techniques
• support each other in navigating the challenges of working with DEI

Who?

This Group Coaching process is designed for practitioners who regularly engage with DEI, or intend to.

While we are based in South Africa, we work with practitioners from around the world; and we invite the sharing of cases, examples, approaches and tools from different contexts.

The maximum number of spaces available in this Group Coaching process is 10, and it will be a 'closed group' for the duration of the series, so please register soonest to avoid disappointment.

When?

The six 2-hour sessions will be held monthly between October 2022 and April 2023 (with no session in December due to the holidays):

Session 1: Friday, 28 October, 2pm - 4pm (SAST)

Session 2: Friday, 25 November, 2pm - 4pm (SAST)

Session 3: Friday, 13 January, 2pm - 4pm (SAST)

Session 4: Friday, 10 February, 2pm - 4pm (SAST)

Session 5: Friday, 10 March, 2pm - 4pm (SAST)

Session 6: Friday, 14 April, 2pm - 4pm (SAST)

If you are keen, but unavailable on these dates, please contact us at [email protected] and [email protected] so that we can let you know about future Group Coaching processes.

How much?

The cost for the Group Coaching process is R4 000 for participants located in Africa; and R6 000 for participants located outside Africa (approx. $325 /€335, depending on the exchange rate at time of purchase).

Payment plans are possible. Contact us at [email protected] and [email protected] to discuss further.

Important Note: Prerequisite for Joining the Group Coaching Process

Before participating in this Group Coaching process you must have attended a Module 1 workshop in either our online DEI Training of Trainers (ToT) programme or our online DEI Personal Development Programme (PDP). This ensures that you are familiar with us and our style (before committing to the 6-session process); and that we have a solid foundation to start from, including a common understanding of the importance of doing this work ('why DEI') and a clear set of group agreements in place.

About the Facilitators

NtombiZandile (Zed) Xaba is an independent consultant, and a highly experienced trainer and facilitator with 32 years of facilitation experience. She consults to national and multi-national business organizations, as well as to government and the non-government sectors. Her work includes diversity, leadership, team effectiveness, conflict-coaching, mediation, personal mastery, education and youth development. 

Zed holds a Masters in Conflict Facilitation and Organizational Change from the Process Work Institute, Portland, USA and has facilitated numerous small and large group processes around the issues of race and diversity in South Africa. She has been involved in facilitating the World Work seminars at the international Process Work conference in Switzerland, Poland, America and Greece. 

She facilitated a programme called Reconciliation thru Remembrance, for a racially diverse group of South Africans in Johannesburg on a journey of dialogue and reconciliation. This process was made into a documentary that Zed has shown at various international conferences, WorldWork, Mediation Beyond Borders and the Summit of Courageous Conversations about Race.

Zed is a TEDx speaker. Her TED talk on Internalised Oppression - Internalised Oppression; naming and peeling away the layers of shame - is available online. 

Samantha (Sam) Stern is a facilitator, trainer and coach with twenty-five years of experience working in the areas of organisational development, team effectiveness, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), leadership development, personal empowerment and psychosocial wellness.

Sam grew up in the UK and then lived, studied and worked in the USA before moving to South Africa in 1998.  

Sam holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Science with a concentration in Psychology and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University in Washington, DC. She is a certified Facilitator and Assessor (with the ETDP SETA) and she has trained in a range of approaches for managing social change and working with complex systems. This includes Theory-U, Deep Democracy, Systems Thinking, Organisation and Relationship Systems Coaching (ORSC) and Process Work.

Sam is the founder and lead facilitator of Journeys to Remember, which designs and facilitates transformative learning experiences for individuals, affinity groups, teams and organisations. She also serves as an Associate for several consultancies including Mandate Molefi, Nurturing Growth Trading, Tara Transform and the Centre for Mental Wellness and Leadership. In these roles, Sam has facilitated hundreds of DEI workshops with corporate companies, government departments, NGOs, universities, schools and affinity groups. Sam is also engaged in several communities of practice in order to support her own ongoing growth in these areas.