Coaching | Faciltation | Training | Healing
This is an initiative aimed at healing the nation through creation of safe space for people to be vulnerable and communicate openly, honestly and authentically about their feelings regarding underlaying issues and problems in their lives.
Introduction
In a recent survey, UC Beckeley found that 72% of entrepreneurs involved in the study, reported that they were dealing with mental health concerns. In another study the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), found that 72% of entrepreneurs are directly or indirectly affected by mental health issues compared to only 48% of non-entrepreneurs.
Mental health
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. Mental health is important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood and professionally.
Child wounds which are sometimes called shadows are parts of us we hide, suppress and deny can slow entrepreneurs down and attribute failure or unsustainable success where people are rich today and lose it all tomorrow.
Problem
The wounds of unworthiness and the feelings of not good enough as a collective shadow is a silent Achilles heel for many entrepreneurs especially black ones. The cultural mechanisms for dealing with these wounds are different in Africa.
Emotional and mental health wellbeing programmes are much needed interventions for entrepreneurs whether they are successful or not.
If they are successful, they need help balancing their success with the cultural expectations and collective traumas from their pasts.
If they are not yet successful, they need to help to feel worthy of success.
Unquestionably, South Africa's success rests on the success of the African entrepreneur.
Premise
The foundation of a developed country is built on a healthy economy that is not only made up of healthy economic sectors, healthy business community, but most importantly healthy entrepreneurs and business owners.
An entrepreneur or business owner is a foundation of a business, and emotional, mental health stability and shadow awareness are important and critical factors in the making of an entrepreneur.
If the mental and emotional health of entrepreneurs and business owners declines the foundations become shaky and unbalanced, and the longer this lasts the more the business suffers.
Diagnosis
Entrepreneurs and business owners tend to work extra hard and concentrate all their efforts into building successful businesses. They preoccupy themselves with the ambition of building a successful business. They do all these at a hefty psychological price because they neglect their own well in general but mostly mental wellbeing and as a consequence reach dilapidating mental and emotional exhaustion. All these resulting in their inability to interact with their business partners and employees, creative processes becoming stagnant and feeling completely isolated.
Entrepreneurial challenges
Whilst entrepreneurial journeys are speckled with milestones of success, they are often punctuated with challenges that result in unprecedented mental and emotional strain. The stress of leading a team, the need to acquire new business, supporting clients, burdened with the task of make-or-break decisions daily, having the sole responsibility of revenue generation, managing household up keep, maintaining a social life and one’s physical health, and meeting family commitments all affect the mental and emotional health of entrepreneurs and business owners.
Empowering entrepreneurs and business owners
This is why the founder Bongile Mkhumbeni decided to empower and provide ongoing support for entrepreneurs and business owners. This he hoped would contribute to enhancing the sustainability of entrepreneurs and business owners’ businesses hence leading to wealth creation. He understands that a healthy mind is a healthy life and that building and sustaining a healthy business requires a healthy inner-self.
Value proposition
We combine African wisdom on emotional and mental healing, extensive psychology, coaching, business knowledge and experience to deliver healing to the challenged souls (mind, will and emotions) of entrepreneurs and business owners.
