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.
Postscripts from a Feminist of the Global Majority | October 2026:
Inside this edition:
- What should women do when the world has gone mad?
- The structural relationship between racial capitalism, patriarchy and femicide in South Africa
- Work Around the World
- Balancing caretaking and self-care
- Feminist Inspirations
- Book Review: Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower, by by Brittney Cooper
- Global Geopolitical Insights
Share your thoughts with us.
Navi Pillay’s journey from a Durban slum to the Nobel Peace Prize
Why Is South Africa Outside Africa’s Payment System?
Representation is just the start
The structural relationship between racial capitalism, patriarchy and femicide in South Africa
Radical acceptance – lessons from my mother
Navigating emotions
Balancing caretaking and self-care
— Shamillah Wilson
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.
Free Books to Share
Did you know that if you access my website from your phone, you can save my eBooks directly to your phone? You can also send them over WhatsApp to your own accountability buddy.
I have three completely FREE resources available for download:
- Making Yourself a Priority
- Personal growth through archetype work
- Signs Your Inner Activist is Calling
No need to provide any details!
Know their names
I am a tannie to many children in my family and my community. And that’s why I believe this recent piece on my website is crucial reading for all of us.
Written by Ayesha Bagus of Mothers4Gaza, this sits with the feelings of grief and righteous rage that grip many of us as we see the continuously rising numbers of deaths in Gaza. It doesn’t ask you to shed the heaviness, but instead sits alongside you as you hold it.
As the writer shares, “When we write their names, we are asking the person reading them to stop for a moment and imagine the child behind the ink. What if this were your child’s name? What if the name you were reading belonged to the little person whose shoes are by your front door, whose school bag is on the floor, whose voice you hear calling you from another room? What if the mother grieving that child were your mother, your sister, your friend, or you?”
Feminist Spotlight: Nolethu Ndude
Since it is International Children’s Day this month, I’m spotlighting Nolethu Ndude.
Nolethu is a Cape Town-based social entrepreneur and founder of WeMattah, an organisation working with young people on:
- Gender equality
- Sexual and reproductive health and rights
- HIV prevention
- Access to youth-centred services
Her work is grounded in a simple but radical belief: young people deserve honest, age-appropriate conversations about their bodies, relationships, health and futures.
Through partnerships with schools and community organisations, WeMattah helps create space for these conversations between young people, parents and communities.
Read more about her journey and work.
#InternationalChildrensDay #WeMattah #YouthRights #SRHR #GenderEquality #CapeTown #SocialEntrepreneur
