Feminist Life Coach and Organisational Process Facilitator
Shamillah Wilson
1-on-1 Coaching
Organisational process work
What you can expect working with me
I love what I do. I am passionate about unleashing the power and potential in myself and others.
My coaching, and leadership and organisational development, reflect my greatest passions – contributing to a just world and accompanying people on their journeys towards fulfilment. I draw on my own extensive experiences in social justice, leadership development, activism, social entrepreneurship, women’s rights and youth development.
I am curious about what it means to be in this world and how we can connect to a deep inner calling to live our lives with intention and achieve change, not only for the world but for ourselves. As I journey through life figuring this out, I am deeply guided by my politics of equity and justice, and my desire for personal joy, fulfilment and freedom. In other words, I believe we can have it all!
Working with me will help you achieve personal transformation, a new sense of wellbeing, and a plan to realise your goals.
Personal transformation and wellbeing
My coaching is grounded in understanding context and the systems that affect us. It is an accompanied intimate journey with you.
Unlock your inner wisdom.
Learn to trust yourself.
Leadership development
My work in leadership development supports you to lead from the inside out.
Surface your leadership beliefs and behaviours.
Develop skills and tools for social justice leadership.
Organisational process work
My work with organisations involves exploring, designing and facilitating conversations that support organisations to become caring and just. Some of this work includes:
Courageous conversations.
Building collective trust.
Team building and strengthening.
Strategy development and learning.
Resources for you
The social justice approach I follow provides a holistic coaching model that examines our complex realities and then taps into our resourcefulness in ways that can effect small (and sometimes big) changes-for-good internally and in the systems we experience. Each month I share thoughts and resources to help us stay grounded in purpose and intentional in our activism.
Inside this edition:
- September: A month of possibility or peril?
- The Personal Is Political: Voices of African women who refuse to accept violence as inevitable. GBV statistics in South Africa are staggering, but we are not helpless.
- Work Around the World
- Journaling as Self-Care Guide (video)
- Feminist Inspirations
- Book Review: Female Fear Factory: Unravelling Patriarchy’s Cultures of Violence, by South African feminist scholar Pumla Dineo Gqola
- Global Geopolitical Insights
Share your thoughts with us.
A new map for a new narrative: UN endorses Africa’s true size
Ceuta: When migration becomes a geopolitical weapon
The oil surplus that still leaves people poor
China’s people-centred progress: When billionaire wealth meets a social contract
The equation of this war is clear: either everyone or no one
The Tortoise Knows: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Urgency
Radical acceptance – lessons from my mother
I’m feeling overwhelmed, and that’s okay!
While the last few months brought a lot of joy and big changes, I am also okay with acknowledging times I feel overwhelmed trying to find personal-work-life balance while processing the dizzying state of injustice in the world.
Earlier in the year, I put together six strategies (for individuals or groups) experiencing such overwhelm to help us find a little more grounding. Read the article.
Take a Leap and Rewrite Your Future
I’ve talked about my eBook as a practical guide to career transitions, but what I think works really well is that the eBook starts with where you are at this moment in your life – potentially feeling overwhelmed at work, feeling a bit stuck perhaps. The very first chapter in the eBook looks at how to know if you’re ready for a career transition, and from there the rest of the eBook works alongside you as you discover where you’re at.
Feminist Spotlight: Crystal Simeoni
Crystal Simeoni is a Pan-African feminist activist doing work the world urgently needs.
As Director of NAWI, the Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective, Crystal is tackling macro-level economic issues head-on.
Her work dives deep into:
- The origins of debt facing African countries
- How colonial economic control is still embedded in our national economies
- Continuously visibilising the role of African women in economic spaces
Through narrative storytelling, sharp analysis and the deconstruction and reconstruction of macroeconomic policies, Crystal curates the collective’s work to reshape the systems we live within.
Here’s why this matters: our understandings of abundance and liberation cannot be separated from our economic realities. Crystal’s work on the continent is not just important; it’s vital.
Thank you, Crystal, for the work you do.
