Black Lives Matters – America: A Year On, South Africa: A Week On Perspective In Black and White
About the Authors: Ednah Khosa is a black South African women and Audrey Riley is a white South African woman. Ednah & Audrey: When we started to write this article a couple of weeks back, we were acutely aware, based on our recent research, just how little has changed...
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Mental Wellness – the What, Why and How?
The Cambridge Dictionary puts out a regular blog where it lists new words or phrases that their team have recently observed in either the written or spoken form. In their blog of the 28th June 2021, they listed the following words: Lockdown foot [noun] a condition resulting from someone having...
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Antifragility – What will recovery from the Covid-19 crises take?
The central question for all of us at the moment is ‘How do we adjust to these Covid times - how do we bounce back and recover from all the losses and challenges that we have faced in the past year?’ By Ednah Khosa
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International Women’s Day – #Choose to Challenge.
Every year in March, we celebrate International Women’s Day to rally action, to celebrate female achievements and recognise the steady progress in women’s representation. So Presidents, Deputy Presidents, Governors, Ministers, CEO’s, teachers, mothers, working women, married women, single women, Indian, black, white, Latino women, gay, queer, trans women - Happy...
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Our Rent has been Paid!
Our stories never begin or end in the same way. My story and yours start and end differently for our stories begin even before we are born. Some begin with stories of our names. Some of our names are thought out to plant something in us, something that we might...
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Finding our Villages: Communities and Connections
By Ednah Khosa The people around us are just people, unless we are united in the same purpose and gather for the same reasons. We meet, we share out stories, we bond and create a sense of belonging, until they are no longer just people. Then we become colleagues, friends,...
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In appreciation and celebration of 2020
What a year it has been! As the world stopped in its tracks in ways none of use could have imagined, we are grateful to have had partners like you by our side. Amidst the darkness and loss of this year, we celebrate our co-creation, collaboration and improvisation and experimentation...
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“We Had Our Hands Full” – The Impact of COVID-19
Ednah Khosa in conversation with the Factor10 Coaching Team At the beginning of every year, we set goals in place, we make resolutions and we map out everything we want to achieve. We draw out places we want to travel and list prayers we would want answers for. We always...
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COACHING THE SYSTEM, NOT THE INDIVIDUAL
There is little good in encouraging women leaders to flourish if there is nowhere for them to go, says Kerrin Miller. The scarcity of women in leadership roles is well known. Within the South African context, a 2018 report showed that only 29% of senior roles in South African organisations...
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Women Rising (By Ednah Khosa)
It has been 64 years since the great Women’s March on 9 August 1956 when wives, mothers, working women, Indian, black, white and coloured women united and stood for what they truly believed in. As women in South Africa we stand here in 2020 because of the paths these women...
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Inspiring your team beyond impact of the storm
This IS collective loss Your team is confronting the brutal reality of the current situation. You are leading them through lost revenue, reduced budgets, colleagues laid off and exciting new projects postponed. You know that this feels tough because it is tough - that the discomfort that you’re all feeling...
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#Blacklivesmatter – Our breathwork as coaches
As the world confronts an unprecedented health and economic crisis, inequalities and social justice have been exposed on many fronts. In June 2020 with the death of George Floyd, the urgency of racial justice and the Black Lives Matter movement dominated our news feeds, our social media platforms and our...
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