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Viva Academia The drive to write about student protests has been with me for a long time. I am glad I finally did it. Aren’t we witnessing a worldwide rising
INTERNational This is a good news blog! Allow me to blow the trumpet of teamwork that reaches for a dream. Perhaps you remember from an earlier blog the photo of
NEWS
Boekscout has launched my book, A Lifetime of Personal Power, in Holland and Belgium!
Meeting conference participants still chatting with animation during their refreshment break at the tail end of a jam-packed, two-day conference is not to be taken for granted!
Mieke is an early-twenties adventurer from South Africa who spent 2 years au pairing in the USA. We settled in by the fireside for a long chat about her experiences there, her learnings, and the huge impact this time overseas has had on her life.
Dr Tim Pittaway captures the mood while post-grad participants are boarding Teams for our research workshop. The two screens are active, the reserve batteries are ready should the power go off, and everything is double-checked to be functioning… We will be online for many hours…
We had our cake ... and we ate it! at my first open house. 12 business women + Werner's delicious menu + Lindi's Bonnievale Wine + a little stoking of the fire ... just the recipe for connecting and building relationships through shared experiences. I'm looking forward to the next one!
On 5 March I had the pleasure of presenting one in a series of work-readiness workshops to these 2020 matriculants, now engineering students in phase 2 of the Unity for Africa Foundation’s iGems programme. We worked through practical steps to develop positive, objective self-knowledge to foster insight and skill in managing their careers. They responded with such confident and enthusiastic presentations (as you’ll see in the photos), it was a truly happy day for this educator. A big thank you to Berenice and Babalo from the #UnityInAfricaFoundation for creating this great opportunity.
CLIENT TESTIMONIALS
The ladies have been raving about the uplifting experience. Thank you for your contribution and inspiring our employees.
Dr Janin delivered a SUPERB address to a packed audience at our Siembamba Preschool High Tea. The ladies were absolutely thrilled with her lively, warm and practical delivery. The audience gave excellent feedback about how her talk made them reconsider unhelpful life attitudes. They were inspired, excited and motivated. She did all this in a very natural and warm way, making everyone relax, laugh and face their future as moms and women with renewed enthusiasm.What a privilege to had her as our Guest Speaker of Honour!
Dr Janin Vansteenkiste takes you on a journey through live stages. The book is written in language the ordinary reader can engage with easily, filled with short retellings of things happening in people’s lives as illustrations. Yet, it is clearly backed by good sociological academic research. Well worth the read and a re-read. Inspiring and motivating.
Thank you for your encouragement at the start of my research journey and for showing me that research is not something to be feared. You have touched my life and your words of wisdom when I needed it most, means the world to me.
Dr Janin performed retrospective analysis of who I am and helped me to become conscious of my innermost thoughts. She enabled me to see things clearly by revealing my future through the recollections of memories of my old self. Removing the mental fog I’ve been experiencing. “Everything is connected,” she said, referring to the past, present, and future. Dr Janin has understood my inner self in a way that nobody has done before.
Ek het natuurlik dadelik na die afdeling vir 63+ geblaai. Ek het nog net geloer, maar ek is gek oor jou lewensfilosofie. Baie, baie dankie vir die boek! Dis ‘n wonderlike geskenk. Ek sien uit daarna om veel meer te doen as loer en blaai Boonop gaan dit my met my skryfwerk ook help. Dis moeilik om te onthou hoe mens byvoorbeeld in jou 30’s was.☺ Nou het ek die regte agtergrond vir my jonger karakters.
I would recommend this book to anybody between the ages of 18-100. The author has used a lifetime of coaching experience on the pages. Read it in one sitting.
A briljant book, written by a sociologist with a high level of empathy and feeling for helping people. The book’s real life examples are drawn clearly from the author’s context: Belgium and South Africa. Read it to learn more about yourself and of others.
Congratulations again – this is a marvelous contribution to the inquiry about life phases.
This morning was such a powerful and dynamic experience. I have gained so much insight about myself in that time frame and feel taller from the confidence gained by doing this.