Workshops

While the digital age provides many different ways of telling stories, the techniques used to create stories are ancient. Storytelling in the Digital Age looks at how powerful stories are created, evaluated and shared through digital media. Stories can work for you, but they can also work against you. Storytelling in the Digital Age…

The Art and Science of Change explores change and transformation as complex, multifaceted phenomena that are constant and inevitable in both personal and organizational life. Change is defined as an alteration or transition, while transformation implies a more profound and fundamental shift in identity and self-worth. Effectively managing these processes requires a multidisciplinary approach,…

Discover Your Story: Are you ready to captain your own ship? In a world changing faster than ever before, your greatest asset isn’t just knowledge – it’s your mind and your ability to navigate a sea of information. “Who Are You? 2025” is your essential guide to becoming the hero you were born to…

Tired of the ceaseless mental chatter, feeling bombarded by life’s relentless advertising for your attention? Discover the Meditation Workshop, your guide to mastering your inner world and reclaiming profound peace. The Workshop (you do it by yourself) will help you understand meditation, how to do it and it’s benefits. Download – it’s free! This…

The Refugee Workshop is designed to guide individuals who have experienced forced displacement through the multifaceted journey of healing, adaptation, and rebuilding their lives in a new country. It serves as a companion for refugees and their immense courage, strength, and resilience required to navigate a challenging transition. At its core, the Refugee Workshop…

Trauma is not defined by the event itself but by an individual’s unique response to it. Recognizing Trauma The workbook provides a Trauma Checklist, adapted from the PCL-5, to help individuals assess the severity of their trauma symptoms. This checklist covers common reactions, such as intrusive memories, avoidance behaviors, negative thoughts, emotional changes, and…

This narrative medicine workshop is specially designed for health practitioners such as medical doctors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists and volunteers who are concerned with the care of the unwell. Narrative medicine concerns itself with how storytelling techniques are used to facilitate states of thresholds and changes of life. In the workshop we look at how…

Organising Principles are the foundations that provide and guide beliefs, behaviours, thinking, understanding and practice and what is expected of people within the organisation. There is no organisation possible without organising principles. Organising Principles include Vision, Mission, Values, Measures, Purpose and Promise statements. A hallmark of powerful organisations is that they regularly evaluate and…

Brand Managers and Marketing Teams are expected to tell the story of the business and its brands to create and build customer interest, awareness, sales and  long-term brand recognition. Marketing departments often need to liaise with advertising agencies and providers of sales data – this requires  teams and brand managers to brief agencies and…

What is consciousness? How does it work? Can consciousness be expanded? This facilitated workshop allows you to experiment with mind tools that allow reflection on the most human and mysterious of experiences; the awareness of your awareness in what is called “the ever-present now”. The problem with consciousness is that it is used to…

Designed specifically to up your game, the change management masterclass is designed for change management practitioners with 2 or more years’ experience in the field who want to develop deep knowledge and know-how in the field. The Change Management Masterclass covers key topic areas such as: Novel approaches to large-scale change management that use…

We work with Leadership & Exco. to improve storytelling confidence, ability & delivery. We work one-on-one or with a group up to 15 participants. Group Sessions Group sessions last one day going into the evening, preferably in a venue with a fireside around which stories can be told and shared under African skies at…

An African Dilemma tale is a unique style of participative storytelling. It is a story that has no end other than that provided by the participants. And even then, the story continues…… Why are dilemma tales important for children in the digital age? Children are bombarded with conflicting stories every day. They ingest cartoons,…

The key driver that determines the quality and profitability of customer relationships is grounded in storytelling. Whatever your customers know about you, your organisation, your products and services is story based. Telling better stories in the right way empowers customer relationships and ensures customer loyalty. Effective brand managers know this secret and a lot…

We provide leadership and Exco fireside storytelling teambuilding in a boma/fireside environment. Traditionally, it is in the boma where, it is said, the best stories were told and the biggest decisions taken. It is a powerful and memorable way of getting everyone ‘onto the same page’ using an African dilemma tale approach. Everyone participates…

This half day facilitated in-company workshop is designed to provide a solid platform for exploring the opportunities presented by gamification. We provide techniques and tools that will help you identify target areas and implement simple gamified systems. Areas covered in the workshop include: Game theory and gamification overview What makes for a great game?…

This facilitated workshop is designed to help you create, evaluate and tell stories in the digital space. You’ll acquire know-how on how stories work in an individual and organisational context; how they are constructed and told. Explore how stories stimulate relationships, co-operation, change, innovation and stability. Good stories can facilitate directed change in attitudes…

Who-are-you? is a narrative based lifeskills workshop designed for youth in Africa and the developing world ‘If you want to get ahead in life, you need self-esteem, confidence and good communication skills. Think for yourself, be creative. Build good relationships. Be the best you can be. Dream big dreams. Become leaders and entrepreneurs. The…

Conflict manifests in many ways in an organization. At times it rises to the surface in the form of defensiveness, disagreements or uncooperative behaviour. Most of the time, however, it remains hidden and is evident from symptoms such as poor morale, high staff turnover and absenteeism, lack of enthusiasm, alternative forms of organisational communication…

Storytelling is probably the world’s biggest industry. Radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, websites, books, pamphlets, advertising hoardings, blogs, annual reports, financial statements and invoices are some aspects of the incessant post modern chatter. Seems everyone is trying to tell a story. Your story has to stand out and be memorable among all the other stories…

The Isivivane is a knowledge creation and sharing model designed for organisations of all kinds and sizes. Isivivane can be used for a variety of applications including KM, Change Management, Conflict Management, Teambuilding, Innovation, Project Management, sustainable system design, branding & identity work. A key benefit of the game is that it creates shared…

Start thinking in new dimensions Our ThoughtFormz in-house thinking skills workshop is designed to stimulate responsible innovation in a corporate context. The workshop is designed to equip participants with the critical and creative thinking skills required to face challenges and risk innovation, increase your organisations’ ability to be competitive and help everybody to see the ‘Big…

Isivivane is a Zulu word that refers to a concept found in a number of other African cultures. In Zulu, Isivivane literally means ‘throw your stone upon the pile…’ and refers to rocks arranged as piles and / or hub and spoke patterns. Once upon a time, stones were used in the ancient world…

A Story Circle is a facilitated gathering that helps participants craft and share stories. As a result of telling and sharing these stories, participants routinely achieve profound breakthroughs in their understanding of themselves, each other and the world around them. Story circles can deal with a wide range of topics which include: creating the…