About the workshop

Restoring dignity as part of healing has been a core theme for postcolonial southern Africa and the global South. What are the practices that bring heartfulness, courage and presence when facing difficult contexts and histories? How does the relationship I have with my ancestors play into this? What do we remember of their ancient ways? What role do inner work and self-realisation practices play in fostering the patience, robustness and momentum needed for transforming wounded social realities? Where do we even begin?

We invite you into a circle to explore the questions that matter to you in this regard, sharing some of the realities and learnings from Southern Africa, Colombia, South Sudan, Bangladesh and Yemen spanning diverse realms of work from mindfulness-based programmes, trauma therapy, to gardening, to dance, yoga, movement and breath work. 

About the workshop holder

Linda Kantor, born in Harare Zimbabwe, is a Counselling Psychologist, Hypnotherapist and Yoga Teacher, based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Her mother survived the Holocaust and she is passionate about the innate capacity we have as human beings for compassion and healing. She has been deeply committed to bringing mindfulness-based interventions to the South African context. This work has taken her into a variety of settings, including teaching a compulsory mindfulness programme to Executive MBAS at the University of Cape Town, as well as co-facilitating teacher trainings and supervising community-based interventions.

South Africa offers many new possibilities of adaptation and creativity. Her PhD “Applications, Understandings and Perceived impact of mindfulness in the organisational context”, developed an understanding of how mindfulness training might promote a way of dealing with the three poisons of greed, hatred, and delusion.