Samuha Safar

27/02/2026

Something has shifted. And it was time.

The Empowered Studio held what it could. But practice outgrows its container — and mine grew toward something collective, something plural, something rooted in the understanding that journeying is never done alone.

Welcome to Samuha Safar. Collective journey. 🌿

An ecosystem that holds individuals, teams, groups, organisations and communities — each in the way they need to be held.

Root. Reclaim. Rise.

— — —

With deep gratitude:

To the ancestors who carried drive without pride, humility without supplication, activism as a way of living, and love as a force.

To those who walked with me and whose paths diverged — I honour what we shared. There are many ways of journeying.

To my partner, my sister, my nephews, my mother, my father, my grandmothers — for love, values made visible, the fight for what is right, and the quiet power of cultural roots.

To the groups that witness and push me — you are the ground of this work.

This is the collective journey. Come.

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10/02/2026

Some journeys don’t begin with clarity.
They begin with listening, seeing sideways and sensing

This carousel traces a quiet shift in my practice toward work that is decolonial, human-centred, and system-aware.
Across individuals, organisations, and community spaces.

Art, story, and dialogue become methods
for transformation, for repair, for resistance.

Swipe slowly.
This is a story still unfolding. 📖✨

27/01/2026

We have been taught to fear the collective.
To see it only as crowd, mob, threat.
Yet history keeps whispers of alternative stories in moments of coercive control
Tipping points are not born from heroes alone.

They arrive when bodies gather.
When grief learns to speak in plural.
When power moves sideways — through kitchens, corridors, WhatsApp groups, lunch breaks, picket lines, meeting rooms.

The collective has always been political.
But it is also intimate.
Breathing.
Human.

What if the work is not to flatten difference,
but to stay with plurality long enough
that something wiser than consensus can emerge?

What if collective does not mean agreement,
but accompaniment?
Not sameness — but resonance.
Not unity — but relation.

This is where movements turn.
Where organisations either calcify or soften.
Where the social and the personal stop pretending they are separate stories.

I am learning more and more to see the world this way.
To work this way.
To live this way.

Something is gathering.
A way of being-with.
Soon, I’ll share more. 🌿✨

22/01/2026

Language matters.
Especially when it stops smoothing the road.

Lately, certain words have been gathering weight—
not as ideas,
but as directions.

I am no longer interested in practices/interventions that polishes the surface.
That helps people adjust their posture
inside systems that exhaust them.
That offers tools for endurance
without naming the terrain.

This is not a move away from expertise.
It is a return to human knowledge as wisdom—
the kind carried in bodies,
in shared histories,
in what becomes visible when we walk together long enough.

I accompany.
Which means I walk with.
Through uneven ground.
Across inherited paths.
And when we encounter structures that harm,
I do not step around them.

I call them into the journey.
Power.
Silence.
Oppression.
Not as abstractions,
but as fellow travellers that must be named
if we are to keep walking honestly.

This is not neutrality.
It is a stance.
Rooted in liberatory praxis.
Guided by Ubuntu ethics.
Because accompaniment without truth
is not care—
it is collusion.

So yes, I walk with. 🚶🏽‍♂️🌍
And I interrupt the path
when it leads us away from our humanity.

Where have you been asked to keep walking quietly instead of questioning the road itself? ✨

19/01/2026

There’s something tender about looking back at what you’ve created. Some spaces hold us while we become. 🌿

The Empowered Studio has held hundreds of conversations — leadership teams finding their feet, individuals rebuilding after burnout, groups re-storying themselves after collective trauma. I’m sitting with deep gratitude for the work, relationships, and moments that shaped a chapter of my life. ✨

I’m noticing now that the container is ready to grow.
Not running from what’s been built, but listening carefully for what wants to emerge next. 🌱

The work continues.
The form may change.

What are you being invited to honour — and what could a gentler holding make possible? 🕊️

15/01/2026

What are you actually building toward?

This week, I'm sitting with that question again as I reflect on the past ten years. Not because something is broken. But because growth and liberation demands we revisit our foundations, our roots and the narratives we hold.

I’ve been listening more closely.

To the pauses.
To the questions that arrive uninvited.
To the sense that something wants to be walked with, not pushed forward

More to come

06/05/2025

Working With Groups Faculty members Yahya Mayet and Patricia Johnson-Peterson will conduct the online large groups part of the 48th Annual Foulkes Lecture & Study hosted by the Group-Analytic Society International in London this Friday, 9th, and Saturday, 10th May.

The good news is you can join online!

Click on this link to make a booking: https://subscribercrm.groupanalyticsociety.co.uk/Book-Event/Event-Booking/EventId/48

24/02/2025

The Introduction to Group Analysis workshop is now on the 12th and 13th of April.

This workshop is for anyone doing group work or interested in it and want to enhance their knowledge and skills.

Discounts apply! Email [email protected] for more details.

18/11/2024

The Introduction to Working With Groups course is open to anyone who works with or aspires to work with groups and is looking to deepen their understanding of group processes.

Please share widely with anyone who works with groups or aspires to.

Booking link: https://www.ububele.org/events-1/introduction-to-working-with-groups-course-1

18/11/2024

Interested in deepening practice in group dynamics? Join this revised hybrid course that’s highly experiential

The Introduction to Working With Groups course is open to anyone who works with or aspires to work with groups and is looking to deepen their understanding of group processes.

Please share widely with anyone who works with groups or aspires to.

Booking link: https://www.ububele.org/events-1/introduction-to-working-with-groups-course-1

05/11/2024

If you are curious about deepening understanding and application of group work, please join us for this short introduction weekend. The Working With Groups faculty is hosting a day and a half introductory workshop to group analysis in February next year. The workshop is about exploring, learning and practising the work that is done in groups in therapeutic, community and work based settings.

Bookings are done on our website www.ububele.org or write to [email protected] for more details. Discounts apply!