Who we are
Wellness Dialogue Group is about connecting with yourself and others in meaningful ways. All this can only happen when wellness and wellbeing are a top priority.
Who are we
Wellness Dialogue, in association with Kids Dialogue’s interventions support ALL staff, including meaningful interventions that support children below 13 years of age.
Wellness Dialogue is backed by research and has a specific focus on preventative healthcare and interventions that serve to empower employees from a wellness perspective instead of from only a reactive, crisis-management perspective.
Wellness dialogue’s interventions are all backed by sound research and actuarial data in order to drive change, wellness and preventative healthcare
Overall Wellness
Overall Wellness is critical to empowering and supporting staff to be the best they can be and more productive. For this reason, Wellness Dialogue Group (which includes Kids Dialogue) supports the age category of Pre-birth to retirement. And between the various wellness categories there is always an overlap where one area in dysfunction will affect the other areas.
Every person exists with the same basic human needs but those needs shift during various seasons of life, and so the approach to wellness in the organization, should too.
All cases or projects are managed with sound medical knowledge and practices.
All practitioners are registered with the required bodies, such as HPCSA, BHF etc and have the necessary expertise to practice in their area of specialisation and adhere to principles of confidentiality.
Empowering employees through principles of resilience means that the business will be resilient and be able to withstand disruption, change and stress more readily and successfully.
Raising the next generation of resilient leaders means that we are raising a new Resilient South Africa.
The Power of LOVE, PLAY & Connection in Mental and Emotional Wellbeing
Love, Care, Play, and Connection are hard to connect to productivity, but with The Wellness Dialogue practitioner team, we weave this into preventative medicine and treatment in order to live a vibrant and healthy life.
It is important to treat every person as an individual who comes from a certain family or background.
Seeing the human behind the condition or diagnosis means that we are not just managing a case, but people too and culture, race, gender will be taken into consideration where it benefits the process and people involved.
Compassion is being able to see another as a human being. The next generation of compassionate leaders, feeds into a compassionate generation and nation
Research & Actuarial data
Everything we do is backed by sound and ethical research
Our projects empower those we are in contact with to live lives that are enriching and fulfilling, in order for the business they work in to benefit from productive employees
At Healthy Future Kids Foundation (foundation of Wellness Dialogue Group) we believe in and advocate for the foundations of health being built before birth. Building protective factors starts then and continues to be nurtured through the teen years in order to raise resilient and compassionate next generation leaders
According to research and the early childhood development (under the banner of neuroscience), attachment and the early years are concepts that will make up a lot of our projects and interventions and serves as the most critical period in human development overall.
During the early years 80% of how we turn out as adults can be attributed to the quality of the care and support and needs that were met during the first 0 – 3 years of life. The Healthy Future Kids Foundation does however see the environment of a child, the parents of the child and other factors that have an impact on early years as critical.
Healthy Future kids
We are a passionate board of Directors
With appearances on radio and TV such as INX Prime Live on DSTV as resident coach, 702 talking about psychological matters, SABC 3 and Power FM amongst others. Candice is a Wellness coach specialising in psychological matters for Briefly News and is an expert in Mental Health, Wellness and Inclusion.
She has over 10 years of experience in clinical psychology, neuro-leadership coaching, and strategic leadership training and is passionate about empowering individuals, parents, teams, and children to improve their lives, manage change and stress, and create better outcomes for them. She is the founder and director of Kids Dialogue and the Wellness Dialogue Group, where she uses her expertise in neuroscience, psychology, disability and diversity management, and business to design and deliver customized care plans and wellness programs for families and corporates.
She is a mental health advocate, and an advocate for children's rights and preventative medicine. She believes in building resilience, compassion, and empowerment in all stages of life and in all sectors of society. She has worked with various learning institutions, businesses, and communities to provide talks, workshops, and non-profit projects that positively impact people's lives and well-being. She is always looking for new opportunities to learn, grow, and serve with her potential, gifts, and resources.
Natasha Spilg is a registered behavioural optometrist and her passion is treating and supporting children or adolescents with dyslexia/ ADHD / those on the ASD spectrum and alike.
I am a Behvioural Optometrist and Mum of 2. My interest in Behavioural Optometry arose through observing my own children’s struggles from birth. My son was born with an underdeveloped Moro Reflex, and it took many years of searching and wading through information and therapists to get the correct diagnosis and interventions. My daughter has displayed several developmental challenges and learning difficulties from birth, and it was through navigating these choppy waters that I found my niche. With the guidance of my colleague, continual reading on the topic of Learning Difficulties, and trial and error with my daughter, I developed an understanding and an ability to apply the basic principles to everyday practice.
With the advent of COVID and the transition to online presentations, information from the USA has become more accessible, enhancing my practical application of acquired knowledge. I aim to Create Vision and Reading Solutions, I look at the child Holistically and I adopt an “If this were my child what would I do “approach has been the parent of a child with learning difficulties.
My Qualifications:
B. Optometry (UKZN), MBA (Bond Uni), Iridology (Introductory), Reiki (Level 2), Dyslexia Diagnosis and Therapy (Stark-Griffin Dyslexia Academy), Phono-Graphix Read for Africa (Jenny Taylor)
Kholofelo Tsoloane works as an employee health and wellness coach, she is a Neethling Brain Instrument Practitioner and facilitator. She is a qualified Biokineticist with 16 years of experience. She started her career as a Biokineticist evaluating and prescribe scientifically based exercise programmes for orthopaedic, cardiac, diabetic and hypertensive outpatient as well as clinical testing.
In the past 9 years she has worked with a multidisciplinary team which focuses on employee wellness, preventative health and rehabilitation. Together working to create an environment where employees are taken care of on a daily basis to optimise employee performance. Also conducting health programs for employees for prevention or rehabilitation of disease.
Education is very close to her heart thus she believes that information needs to reach the masses. It is very important that people’s lives are changed and improved, in other cases even saved through education about health and wellbeing.
Kholofelo has a heart for education and young women as the youth of this country are the future leaders and they need to be empowered to unlock their full potential. She mentors and coaches young women from all walks of life. Kholofelo was the ambassador for Eskillz College girls program 2017/2018. She has been nominated for the Women of Stature Awards 2022 (Women in Science). Kholofelo has just completed a Masters in Public Health program, at the University of Pretoria, her research topic: Sexual risk behaviour among a cohort of rape exposed women and non-rape exposed women aged 16-45 in Durban South Africa.
Dr Etti Barsky is passionate about exercise, especially and the benefits of keeping healthy for moms. I am a GP & Sports Physician who has always had more of an interest in the recreational athlete. For over a decade my passion lay in exercise in the pre- and post-natal period. From 2005 until February 2018, I was the Training Director and a partner of Preggi Bellies South Africa. This led to my being the lead author in the SASMA position statement on Exercise in Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period which was published in the SASMA (South African Sports Medicine Association) Journal in June 2012. I have presented at SASMA conferences to my medical colleagues and lectured personal trainers on the importance of being active in pregnancy. I have also made a number of TV appearances and written numerous articles to try to educate women about the benefits of staying fit and healthy during their pregnancies.
I have now extended this interest to a broader public, aiming to inspire and motivate lifestyle changes in my patients and trying to teach them that Exercise IS medicine. I am also a mom to 3 young sportsmen who continually improve (and challenge) my working knowledge of cycling, swimming and cricket!
I have now extended this interest to a broader public, aiming to inspire and motivate lifestyle changes in my patients and trying to teach them that Exercise IS medicine. I am also a mom to 3 young sportsmen who continually improve (and challenge) my working knowledge of cycling, swimming and cricket!
Noami has a huge passion for moms and to empower them to be authentic and live within their means with all resources.
I’m a speech and hearing therapist by profession and a team player by choice. I strongly believe in the power of “the team” and collaboration when it comes to getting our little people to reach their full potential. I’ve been in practice for 12 years (both in schools and private practice). My passion is early intervention (the smaller the better;) but I really love working with all shapes and sizes of little people and their families.
I am also involved in running a professional development network for private practitioners in my field. I enjoy the stimulation and support it provides (as well as the CPD points).
I am also a loving (I hope ;)) wife and mother of 3 delicious children who challenge me at every level. My empathy as a therapist has most definitely been shaped by my parenting journey.
While it's always a work in progress, my practice ethos is to use a holistic client-centered approach to facilitate the clients’ ability to reach his/her potential.
I’m a speech and hearing therapist by profession and a team player by choice. I strongly believe in the power of “the team” and collaboration when it comes to getting our little people to reach their full potential. I’ve been in practice for 12 years (both in schools and private practice). My passion is early intervention (the smaller the better;) but I really love working with all shapes and sizes of little people and their families.
I am also involved in running a professional development network for private practitioners in my field. I enjoy the stimulation and support it provides (as well as the CPD points).
I am also a loving (I hope ;)) wife and mother of 3 delicious children who challenge me at every level. My empathy as a therapist has most definitely been shaped by my parenting journey.
While it's always a work in progress, my practice ethos is to use a holistic client-centered approach to facilitate the clients’ ability to reach his/her potential.
Lauren has her PhD in research Development Studies, and is head of research at Wellness Dialogue Group and Kids Dialogue. Over the last eight years, she has worked in a research-based environments that has involved qualitative research, project administration, fieldwork and fieldwork training.
During this time, there has been a strong emphasis on data-driven, evidence-based knowledge production. Being able to identify and synthesise relevant data is paramount to the production of quality, evidence-based research in order to address real world issues. She has worked on and managed a variety of CSI impact evaluation projects focusing on Education, Nutrition and Social Welfare. This work has entailed partnering with Government, Academia and Private Sector.
In addition, she has a broad knowledge of social development and social policy issues specific to South Africa.
