Mapheyeledi Motimele

Mapheyeledi Motimele is the founder and director of Root Fed Consultancy, a personal and organizational development initiative that is founded on purpose-based practice and spirituality. She currently works in the Ed Tech industry as a Head of People. She trained as an occupational therapist and previously worked as a senior lecturer in the division of occupational therapy at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Her research interests are focused on healing and violence, as shaped and influenced by context and the implications of this for theory developments in the discipline of occupational science and occupational therapy practice. Her Masters’ dissertation focused on disability and violence, more specifically the role of occupation(s) in the healing journeys of those physically disabled through violence. She is currently a PhD candidate at UCT and is investigating violence within protest during the Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) movement that occurred at UCT from 2015 to 2016.