Mari is slightly eccentric (the red hair is a warning clause) but highly effective in influencing and creating space for play, personal development, and transformation. Mari is a registered wellness coach and multi-global award-winning marketing and communication professional passionate about modern men. Tons of retreats, programmes, and spaces uplift women, but the reality is that communities for men are scarce. With just brothers, raising just boys, and working closely with men in executive and management roles for the past 25 years, Mari has developed a deep compassion for men in leadership positions and their daily demands. The societal narrative does not support men; Mari wants to shift that through less talking and acting. She works with men in her counselling practice, in her corporate career, and in her personal life, and she is inviting you to become part of a network that listens to men and empowers them with emotional language and space to take a step back and breathe, away from all the demands.

Essentially a performer in the great arts of the divine, Courtney is a talented artist, actor, and musician. She is especially gifted in her spontaneous ability to apply her artistic gifts and musical talents to a group dynamic to aid personal transformation and creativity.
Since 1999, Courtney has worked passionately and intensively with the resident pod of Inshore Bottle Nose dolphins of Southern Mozambique as Halo Gaia’s owner, Ponta Malongane`s Ocean Safari guide, leading Dolphin Swim Facilitator and data collector. Through her intimate relations with the dolphins, her love of people and her love of the ocean, Courtney offers an extraordinary Ocean Awareness program.

Why not… I’ve hesitated for years, although I know the men will enjoy it and need spaces like this. So, I’m taking a leap of faith and hosting it anyway. I will create the space; the men and the play and participate at their own pace. Maybe a future male co-facilitator will appear – who knows?

The challenge also includes these optional but irresistible extras for the adventurous and more spiritual among us:

• A customised journal and learning module on human behaviour in the workplace and at home, which you can complete in your own time.
• A personal one-on-one coaching session with Mari to reconnect to yourself, your family, team members, colleagues, your professional purpose, or your purpose beyond work.
• Daily yoga sessions (don’t knock it till you try it!)
• Other slightly woo-woo but powerful rituals and spaces, such as meditation, feet and hand washing ritual, letting-go burn ritual, and affirmation circle.
• You can choose to create your experience, and no pressure or judgment is passed if you skip out on any of the activities to go with your flow.