Gogo Dineo Ndlanzi is a pre-eminent and pioneering sangoma, who has successfully merged the sacredness of African Spirituality with modern thinking. She is a celebrated spiritual teacher, life coach, African storyteller, actress, writer, dancer and trained facilitator. Teaching is at the heart of what Gogo Dineo does.
As a trained sangoma, Gogo Dineo has been instrumental in changing perceptions around the practice of “ubungoma” which is a type of African Spiritual Healing. This has made her a household name in South Africa and with Africans in the diaspora over the last decade as she continues to shift mindsets by encouraging people to access African spiritual healing modalities and indigenous knowledge systems. Gogo Dineo has successfully used mainstream and social media to de-stigmatize the practices of African Spirituality using her outspoken personality and educational nuances.
Gogo Dineo cemented her position as a foremost speaker in the global market as she graced the TEDxCAPETOWN stage in 2019 where she eloquently discussed the 4 key lessons she learned as a spiritual healer.
As an international teacher, Gogo Dineo set the stage alight as a keynote speaker in Lüneburg, Germany at Leuphana University in 2019 at their conference on Leverage Points and Sustainability. She focused on how the healthcare system can leverage African indigenous healing practices to overcome systemic failures. This talk was well received as she was able to translate nuanced, local knowledge by giving it global relevance.
In the month of October 2021, Gogo Dineo Ndlanzi gave a Black History Month talk to the ERG (Employee Resource Group) for Google Dublin about; The importance and relevance of indigenous African spiritual belief systems (what they were before, what they are now, and what they are becoming in the future).
In this interview Gogo Dineo Ndlanzi shares exclusive insight about the following topics:
1. How do we become facilitators of change
2. How are we hurting our spirits most
3. What is the biggest challenge we face as teachers
4. What is the best thing we can do to enhance our spiritual health
With Podcast host: Mark Sephton
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