Integral African Conference

31/03/2026

Are you ready to lead at a deeper, more strategic level?

The Master of Business Leadership (MBL) at The DaVinci Institute is designed for senior leaders who want to think systemically, solve complex organisational challenges, and lead with insight in uncertain environments.

Through context-driven research and applied learning, you’ll refine your strategic thinking and develop solutions that drive sustainable business and societal impact.

This is where scholarship meets purpose and leadership becomes legacy.

Applications are open. Take the next step before this intake closes:
https://zurl.co/nInUu

28/02/2026

Until we make our psychological masculine conscious, it will continue living outside us, projected onto men —

For many women, integrating the animus is central to becoming whole. The retrieval of Logos aka initiative, direction, conviction in oneself.

When the inner masculine remains unconscious, authority is either outsourced to others or fought against, attraction becomes inflated or conflicted, and thinking can turn harsh or self-critical.
But when the animus is integrated, a woman no longer needs to borrow certainty, compete with intelligence, or rebel against it — she stands in her own capacity to think, choose, and speak. For herself.
Projection decreases because the qualities once carried by men are now owned internally. What emerges is not hardness, but psychological, emotional sovereignty: the ability to relate to life without losing oneself.

This Sunday, 3/1, we will gather for the final leg of our Animus journey.

In this closing webinar, we will turn toward integration - what it truly means for the animus function to find its rightful place within the psyche.
Up to now, we have explored its forms, its distortions, its power, and its influence in relationship and thought.
Now we ask a different question: what changes when the inner masculine is no longer running the system, but serving it?
Integration is not about silencing the animus, as we explored before. It is about repositioning it - so that thinking follows experience, strength no longer feels threatening, and discernment replaces ambivalence.

This final gathering will be reflective, structural, and practical. We will look at how integration shows up in real life: in pacing, attraction, boundaries, decision-making, and projection.

More info in the link below.

I look forward to closing this arc together.

Lyna

https://www.womenofdepthpsychology.com/

18/10/2025

02/10/2025

The holy is an inconsiderate thing. It doesn’t cohere along neatly drawn-out lines; it doesn’t fix itself to the shape of our lips. It is neither the embroidery on the priest’s robe, the halo on the messiah’s crown, nor the degree in the philosopher’s résumé. It is the impossible geometry of a monstrous immanence that exposes the provisionality of the forms we’ve assumed. It is not separation, it is the trembling of separation.

The holy is noise where music becomes fascist, harmony barbed with prickly thorns to keep the disruptive out. The holy is qadosh: a calling-out into the mess of the awkward.

The work of our time, our time of masked agents, televised genocide, and exhausted utopias - and I say this with the deepest sympathy for my contradiction - is to make sanctuary for the holy. Not because it is pure, not because it is possible, not because it is proper, but because it is none of these. Because it is impossible. Because it is not a solution. Because it is the wound that resists stitching, the crack that refuses the plaster, the murmur that unsettles the count.

To 'make sanctuary' for the holy is to host the unnameable, to let the noise sing, to let the monsters come to the table without trimming their claws. It is to keep the geometry open, the wound weeping, the silence trembling. It is to walk without answers, to hold without clutching, to stay when staying is unreasonable.

Perhaps this is our vocation: not to heal the holy, nor to polish it into a sermon, but to fester with it, to become its dwelling, to let it rearrange the bones of our belonging.

Báyò Akomolafe

20/06/2025

Mandala Consulting in partnership with Dr Rica Viljoen will be the proud host of the upcoming World Peace Forum. Save the dates and watch this space.

16/12/2024

Thanks Jay Naidoo for the inspirational share 🙏