Bev du Toit's warm and engaging manner combined with an intense belief in facing challenges head-on has assisted her in overcoming her own adversity to help people across all cultures take control of their lives.
Bev du Toit's background in civil engineering and entrepreneurial spirit resulted in her own computer school, restaurant and health practices, and she has also consulted as a project and event manager.
As an industrial theatre producer, workshop facilitator and international speaker Bev has connected with audiences of all age groups. Bev's industrial theatre productions have played to over 20 000 South African children, giving the country's youth valuable tools with which to overcome fears and face their future.
Prior to Bev's diagnosis with ovarian cancer in 1996, she had been studying and training in Wellness. Bev du Toit put into practice her training in order to motivate her own healing process and after undergoing surgery and chemotherapy she went into remission in 1997.
Bev du Toit co-developed the Cancer Coping Kit, in conjunction with The Cancer Association of South Africa, which assists newly diagnosed patients and their families in coping with their illness. (The Kit is now available countrywide and can be obtained free of charge from CANSA.)
Bev du Toit is based in Johannesburg and travels locally and internationally offering keynote talks and workshops. Bev has made numerous television and radio appearances, and corporate visits, and has been interviewed extensively in the print media.
Bev du Toit’s special interest is assisting people and companies to develop their Resilience, creating powerful new coping strategies.
Benefits to delegates:
- Increase productivity
- Become conscious of thought processes and internal dialogue
- Develop sustainable positive attitudes
- Learn to overcome obstacles quickly
- Think and act more creatively
- Eliminate unproductive thinking
- Learn to make conscious choices and decisions
- React consciously to situations
- Create a more flexible outlook
- Cope better with daily life and decrease stress
- Understanding and generating sustainable positive attitudes
- Recognizing and stepping comfortably out of your comfort zone
TAMING YOUR TOKOLOSHE – HIV Awareness
Taming your Tokoloshe focuses on the skills required to overcome adversity. In this production we use the story of Dimakatso overcoming her Tokoloshe to:
- To create awareness of HIV/Aids
- To provide employee’s with life skills for dealing with HIV/Aids
- Debunking myths and misconceptions about HIV/Aids
- Creating awareness of supporting those with the disease
- Encourage discussion about the disease
- To introduce creative problem solving skills
- To provide employee’s with life skills for overcoming any adversity
Concepts Discussed
- Problem Identification
- Choosing not to be a victim
- Thinking – promotion of creative thinking processes and getting the RIGHT information
- Feeling – understanding the impact of emotional intelligence
- Examining my beliefs & attitudes – these determine my outlook and levels of success
- What choices & decisions can I make?
- Choosing to be powerful – understanding the elements of powerful behaviour
- Courage
- Re-evaluation
Benefits to delegates
Create greater understanding of HIV
- Become conscious of thought processes and internal dialogue
- Develop sustainable positive attitudes
- Learn to overcome obstacles
- Think and act more creatively
- Eliminate unproductive thinking
- Better understanding of emotional intelligence
- React consciously to situations
- Cope better with daily life and decrease stress
Taming your Tokoloshe combines a black-light theatre production with a skills development workshop creating edu-tainment at it’s best. The Taming your Tokoloshe team comprises skilled and enthusiastic individuals that have performed to over 30 000 school children and 1500 adults in an effort to create awareness, and empower those who see it.
Workshop Format (Total Time: 1hr)
A fifteen-minute show telling the story of Dimakatso taming her Tokoloshe followed by a talk on practical steps to dealing with adversity – with the focus on HIV (The show provides practical examples of the steps discussed in the talk.)
Technical Requirements
The show is presented in a portable, collapsible frame stage. Performance space required is four metres deep by six metres wide (Minimum). The performance can cater for an audience of up to a 150 people. It must be possible to darken the space completely. |
