There are several images of Manya on this page. Each of them is the same and different. How? This leads to another important question, which, not many of us ask enough: 'How many images - internal and external - of yourself do you have of yourself?'
Do you have good images of you? Do you have the best image of you, the images of you that you don't like, the images of you you want to hide, the images of you you wish to show, the images of you you wish to grow, the images of you others see but you don't, the images of you you still have to discover ? .. Which images of you are the ones aligned with who you really are?
The International Coaching Federation is the largest professional body of coaches worldwide and quality assures coaches to ensure they have the best skills and ethics for this kind of work. Manya's a seasoned coach, quality-assured with an ICF Professional Coach Credential (PCC) and trains and assesses other coaches in coach training courses verified by the ICF. She also mentors coaches wishing to improve. You can contact her not only to do this afore-mentioned work, but to also partner with you as a coach either as an individual or a group, or both.
4 decades of experience & of resource collection – All available to YOU
As a coach, facilitator, trainer, mentor, and researcher I love to partner with individuals, other partnerships and groups so we lead more fulfilling lives and access and grow our innate intelligence. Intelligence is emotional, social, relational, intuitive, or spiritual. It’s also to do with communication or embodiment. Whatever form this intelligence is – we each and all have these different forms of it. By sharpening it, we can improve the way we are in leadership, in teams, families, or in any kind of relationship we’re in – romantic, friends, colleagues, blood relative or in-law. You name it. The quality of our connections with ourselves and with others profoundly impacts every aspect of our lives.
I’ve worked in private practice with individual clients and with groups. I’ve also worked with organizations and companies like the UN (the United Nations), SAB (South African Breweries) , SACAP (the South African College of Applied Psychology), with government, and with YSA (Yudelowitz, Shannon and Associates) – where focus was on upper and middle level management in companies like FNB (First National Bank), Kodak, Investec, and many more organizations and companies. I've also been part of a team who made two 13 part-series for SABC, South African Television, and we were nominated for best game show. It was about moral and ethical dilemmas. I've been honoured to participate in meaningful and exciting project with others (a formal CV is available on request)
This work has proved only to show me the transformative potential within each of us. It’s also shown me how necessary this kind of learning is and that we owe it to ourselves and to one another. I'm a coach with all kinds of certification and experience (see below); this means that you're quality assured in partnering with me. You can also rest assured in that I train and mentor other coaches at SACAP. Whether you're facing personal conflicts or professional challenges, I'm dedicated to partnering with you and working with you to find the next steps in to achieving meaningful breakthroughs.
ABOUT MANYA AND SOME of her WHYs? Do you and I resonate?
I'm dedicated to seeing blind spots, and dynamics involved in quality CONNECTION. Methods I use work. With some (enough) commitment and effort from you, you can learn how to live and lead better. How you lead your life - leading your life in a relationship and/or leading an organization or a group is critical. Whether it's your business, a romantic OR business partnership, a family or team integrating and ship-shaping itself you, anyone can make it more or less worthwhile.
If it’s coaching we co-create and if it’s education, I provide service that you can use to achieve quality connection with what you engage. How we balance our hearts with our minds AND with our bodies makes all the difference with regard to how we connect with ourselves and with others. In other words, this balancing of the different parts of ourselves, not only gets us more integrated with ourselves, it also helps us in achieving better connections with others. I invite you to read the last two sentences again to consider how you actually relate to this, each moment as you live your life. I've collected ground-breaking resources over decades so we can tune in, each of us, more to our different aspects of intelligence, integrating them and interacting with others.
Disturbances, low points, even pain that we experience, hold valuable lessons and treasures. If you're ready to unwrap these gifts - to unlock them, only then, do I invite you to join me on one of the journeys I offer: I agree with several luminaries that we only access less than 90% of our potential. This back-handed compliment is quite priceless, when and if you consider it with due attention.
Imagine if you access what you're not accessing!
Why do I do this?
Why would you do this? 'Connecting' gives each one of us access to a far better quality life
Only if you're ready to explore - with no obligation - if there's a fit between us to engage each other on some level. We can book a chemistry session - I will give my time and you give yours to see if there's fit for you in one of the programs I offer.
There are various levels we can engage on: It can be newsletters, a connection breakthrough session, a webinar, an individual or group coaching program. a 3-month or 6-month group course, my FB group, Linked In, Instagram, Tick-tock, X, YouTube, or some or all of the above.
The TRE - Tension and trauma Release Exercises – I work with also involves the option of working as both an individual with me and or as a participant as a group – in both you’re still the individual you are.
As a coach, facilitator, trainer, mentor, and researcher I love and live to partner with individuals, other partnerships and groups to lead more fulfilling lives and access their intelligence. Whether this intelligence is emotional, social, relational, intuitive, or spiritual, whether it's to do with communication or embodiment, we can improve the way we are in leadership and in teams. The quality of our connections profoundly impacts every aspect of our lives.
Targeted formal education lends authority and credibility to these 'hands-on' approaches on offer
I've an MA where I researched the power of interpretation and anthropological and cultural production. This production could be of many things, it could be of values, of ways of interaction with other people, it could be ways of seeing, and of many more things and behaviours. I've two honours' degrees: one is in psychology, and the other is in comparative literature and art history. I'm qualified as a PCC, a Practioner Certified Coach, with the ICF, the International Coaching Federation (the largest global professional body of professional coaches). I train and assess high-level coaches.
I'm certified as a practitioner TRE provider Internationally with the official Global TRE accreditation body. I also am a qualified teacher in Speech and Drama having a licentiate from the Trinity College of Dublin. I have been a moderator and assessor both for SACAP and for the South African Qualifications Authority. I practiced Tai Chi with the renowned Tai Chi Teacher, Edward Jardine, for 10 years; and am currently practicing with Sufi Leo Ming. I also did an intensive yoga training with Iyengar at the Iyengar yoga institute in India, and a training in Process Work in Portland, Oregon in the US. I've actually trained in a plethora of methodologies which I bring to my partnerships with people like you.
