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God Walker is the inevitable consequence of Midlifers’ needs to move away from meagreness in life towards a life of meaning. When the founders of the programme came together to share with each other the typical problems and challenges that Midlifers face, they discovered that the midlife experience is not only widespread, but sometimes extremely difficult to overcome and to change it into an adventure. They also realise that if “nothing” gets done, it all too easily defaults into a crisis – a word that we at God Walker Initiative prefer not to use! The outcome of their endeavours to put together an exciting programme to support people through the midlife passage, not only exceeded their own expectations, but it attracted the professional attention of several people who are now part of the God Walker team.

 

Our Initiative and programme

      • Life Initiative: God Walker Initiative is an organisation aimed at a specialist life programme for successful, yet unfulfilled Midlifers – people who think: “My best years are over...” and not knowing that their best years have yet to happen! Also those people who know that, although life is good and rewarding, and successful in many respects, it just has to be better than it is. Some authors and exponents of the topic refer to this experience as the ‘midlife crisis’, but we prefer to call it midlife experience, or midlife challenge – you can choose whether you want your midlife to become a crisis or an adventure. Obviously we would like to help you to make it an adventure and embark on the God Walker journey.

      • Initiative for life: Our programme is a life-long relationship. It is not just a once-off experience or a weekend happening that is supposed to take your life into orbit. No, it’s more substantial and more permanent. We at God Walker Initiative, in a very subtle way, want to nurture, develop and maintain your newfound insights and perspectives by helping you living it every day for the rest of your life and taste real fulfilment, wholeness and meaning.

Our Commitment

      • The God Walker team is fully committed to a life-long relationship with God Walkers wherever they are. Too many life interventions, coaching relationships, and many similar attempts to support people during midlife and other critical stages of life begin and end with a single presentation of services and to-be-achieved skills. Many such programmes fail because of the lack of progressive support, sustained participation and life-long interaction between the mother-centre and the programme offspring. God Walker is a programme where participants engage in a relationship in order to attain the loftiest levels of meaning and fulfilment in life!

Our Vision

Our vision is to:

    • Midlifers’ lives from meagreness to meaning
    • Prove to Midlifers that their best years are yet to happen, and not behind them (more than 70% of Nobel laureates were over 65!)
    • Bring tranquillity and balance in the lives of Midlifers in order to save life energy necessary to live a life of abundance and fulfilment

Our Partners

God Walker programme does not and could not exist in a vacuum. We have uplifting and inspiring relationships with the following partners:

      • The SHIP® Foundation: SHIP® stands for ‘Spontaneous Healing Intrasystemic Process’, which is the principle on which the Initiative is built. Founder and current CEO, Dr JO Steenkamp and his colleagues in the foundation are ready to assist God Walker Initiative with more serious personal challenges. Read more about them at www.ship.org.za
      • New Era Leadership, a leadership development organisation supporting our work on a corporate level. Read more about them at www.neweraleadership.co.za
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