Facilitation is the art of creating a safe space for participants, where they can be simultaneously vulnerable and courageous. It's a place where all voices and perspectives matter, and where teams are supported to unleash their potential and address the issues most important to them.

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We pride ourselves on understanding our clients' objectives and offering a vast range of process tools, methodologies, and facilitation support materials to enhance your process of looking back and moving forward.

UBER SA Cezanne Maherali, Head of Policy MEA

"It’s been an absolute pleasure working with you Rehana. We have worked together in a number of ways including advisory services on public policy, support to Innovation Master Classes, approaches to gender-related issues as well as understanding of the evolution of the SA public transport landscape. On all of the above, I find that you have always come with a deep appreciation of the complexities of the environment, you are up to date with the latest developments, and the advice that you provide is thoughtful and relevant for the Uber context. You are also well connected within the South African landscape, and have been very generous with your network. You have also helped us to further our thinking on important issues like taxi and gender – by providing us with the foundational knowledge, and taking us on a journey to bring our strategy together cohesively and collaboratively. Perhaps my biggest appreciation is the way in which you constantly challenged our thinking – so that we don’t stay too conservative, and really look at how we need to plug into the ecosystem to maintain and grow our relevance, and improve the experience for riders and drivers. A big heartfelt THANK YOU for everything you have done for us"

C40 Cities Aris Moro, Senior Manager

"We contracted Rehana and her team to deliver a series of events on walking and cycling for South African cities and for the City of Tshwane. She developed and delivered a series of high-quality, audience-focused engagements which exceeded our expectations and she conducted the assignment throughout with professionalism and dedication. We would recommend her services in a heartbeat."

Kayla Brown, South African Cities Network

“Working with the Barefoot Facilitator has provided a depth and richness to our style of engagement that has deeply defined our way of working. In this way, Rehana’s facilitation does so much more than facilitate engagement, but actually shapes the work itself, facilitating outcomes that are honest, reflective and instructive. The experience of working with the Barefoot Facilitator has allowed the team to grow in ways we could not have imagined. Apart from being a masterful facilitator, Rehana is also highly organised, professional and proactive. Her knowledge of the government space and development industry sets her apart from many facilitators, as she bridges the worlds of emotional and intellectual connection. Rehana has strong views that can sometime take the engagement in a direction that was not planned for. But trusting her and her process, I have found, has always led to deeply enriching outcomes and experiences. Apart from my professional relationship with her, she has impacted me on a personal and spiritual level too. Her daughter, Faheemah, also assists us with creative content and graphic harvesting. Her drawing and design skills are exceptional and she is professional and highly creative. She has complemented Rehana’s facilitation style beautifully. It has been an honour working so closely with the Barefoot Facilitator."

Karen Harrison CSP ED Component Lead

"I really enjoy the perspectives that you bring to our work – the deep participatory approach and techniques, the empathy and human touch, the pushing of boundaries and challenging ideas, the activist approach, your responsiveness and your amazing network and networking ability"

Rupert Barnard, Group Managing Director

What our clients have said

"It has been such a pleasure working with The Barefoot Facilitator on the World Bank and National Treasury partnering projects. Rehana always brings innovative approaches to the design and facilitation of sessions. She has huge amounts of compassion and always remembers who we are ultimately trying to benefit. We have learned a great deal from her and continue to do so. We look forward to working on many other projects together in the years ahead."

Elsona van Huyssteen
CSIR

This is a reference to attest to the lasting value, excellence, innovation, integrity and high levels of personal commitment brought by Rehana Moosajee and her company, The Barefoot Facilitator, to the people and initiatives where they are involved in. The distinguishing factor is that Rehana and The Barefoot Facilitator not only leaves the project or event, but each participant and the world, with experiences and results that contributes to the outcomes set, as well as outcomes that contributes to our collective future.

She has through her facilitation of National Urban Conference and South African Cities network related events illustrated her ability to work with small and big, local and international groups. Her knowledge of the South African local, national and built-environment governance space is incredible, infused with her experience as Councillor in the City of Joburg.

Rehana and The Barefoot Facilitator is not just a facilitator of an event, but much rather a of a high impact experience, who also becomes an active leader and collaborative innovator in the design of the process and experience from conceptualization to implementation and reporting.

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Meet Rehana

Rehana is the founder and owner of The Barefoot Facilitator. She is passionate about people, places, potential and planet and is committed to creativity, collaboration and connection. Rehana has been invited to various international platforms and her assignments have included amongst others: wellbeing economies, food systems, eco-mobility, place-making and staying connected to nature in rapidly urbanising contexts.

Her style is characterised by bringing the richness of her life experiences authentically into her work–from retreats in Rajasthan, to business principles from Bhutan, to inter-faith/ inter-cultural tour of Turkey. She combines her professional training in education, with her years of community activism and a 13 year stint in local government with the deep learning she has gained from the opportunities that life has brought to her.