Dr. Engela’s Biography

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47 years of work
experience

CURRICULUM VITAE

Dr
Engela Jacoba Young

Surname: Young

Name: Engela Jacoba

Date
of birth: 3 September 1955

Identity
No. 5509030026087

Nationality: South African

Language: Afrikaans/English

Status: Married

1.
Qualifications

1972
Did Std.
9 and Std. 10 in one year at Ben Vorster High School, Tzaneen, South
Africa. This was the first time somebody
has done something like this in an ordinary school at that time.

1973
One Year Diploma in Secretarial Practice,
Pretoria Technicon.

1974
At the end of 1973 applied to enroll for the Occupational
Therapy Course at the University of Pretoria and became the first student to be
accepted without the pre-required subjects.
The Superintendent of the H.F. Verwoerd Hospital was on the selection
board and took the responsibility for me being accepted.

1976
Qualified as Occupational Therapist (Dip OT).

1983
Diploma in Reflexology

1998
Instructor Life Skills – Creative Accelerated
Learning Methods – Omega Centre

1993
Sensory Integration Therapist

1994
Edu-K Instructor (Brain Gym)

1995
Junior Judge for Horses (SAASU)

2003
Master’s degree in Sociology through the
British Open Commonwealth

University

2003
PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies through the
British Open Commonwealth

University

2023 DSc in Natural Medicine (handed in)

2.
Courses

1980
Creative Accelerated Learning Methods (CALM) –
PRESENTED AT Omega Centre by Frikkie van Kraayenburg

1981
Music therapy – Mercedes Pavlicivec, Russia

1982
Creativity Course – Dr. Kobus Neethling

1983
Diploma in Reflexology

1984
Course in Study methods – whole brain learning

1985
Music therapy, Mercedes Pavlicivec, Russia

1988
SAISI (South Africa Institute for Sensory
Integration)

·
Theory Course

1989
Instructors Course – Creative Accelerated
Learning Methods (CALM) – Omega Centre

Suggestology
and Suggestopedia – Lozanov

Speed-reading
– Tony Buzan

Lateral
Thinking – Edward De Bono

Control
Theory – Dr. Glasser

Learning
with Multiple Intelligence – Dr. Howard Gardner

1990
Baby therapy Course (INSTOPP) Institute for
Occupational Therapists in Private Practice

1992
Trainee Lecturer at the SAISI. Theory Course (South-African Institute for

Sensory Integration)

Brain Gym I
and II Course (To remove learning blocks through the use of certain
techniques.)

1993
Treatment Course (SAISI) South African
Institute for Sensory Integration

Brain Gym in
Depth Course – Prof. Carla Hannaford from America

1994
Brain Gym and Writing Problems – Edu – K
Foundation

Instructors
Course – Edu – K Foundation

Riding for
the Disabled Course and Examination (Horse riding) – SARDA

1995
Cogmotics – Bruce Copley

The Right
to be Intelligent – Louise Alberto Machado from Venezuela

International
Creativity Congress “Fly by Night” workshops on Creativity – Bloemfontein

Thinking
Skills – Beatrice Cap de Viele from Venezuela

American
Saddle Horse Judges Course, Middelburg, Cape

Management
Course 1, 2, 3 – presented by the University of Pretoria for INSTOPP (Institute
for Occupational Therapists in Private Practice)

Scotopic
Sensitivity Syndrome Test User Course, Mrs. Celia Stone from England

1996
Kinesiology Course I

Kinesiology
Course II

Kinesiology
Course III

Professional
Kinesiology Practitioners Courses I, II, III

Qualified
as an American Saddle Horse Judge (SAASU)

Brain
Profile Course – Edu – K Foundation

1997
Bible School – Dutch Reform Church,
Lynnwoodrif, Pretoria.

1998
Eye Therapy course – Leonard Fine

1999
International course attended on Judging,
training of disabled riders on horses in Benoni – Inger Bryant, England.

2000
Tomatis Therapy

2001
Drumming Circle – Nicholas Kotei (Ghana), Lena
Slachmuijlder (USA).

2006 Emotional Stress Release (Tapping), Isebel
Botha

2008 Baby Hands SA – Academy of Baby Sign Language

2009 Iridology – Prof Marius Herholdt

2010 Sclerology – Prof Marius Herholdt

2010 Sand play Therapy (SASTAS)

2022 Enrolled for the Acudetox course through the
Acudetox Academy

3.
Membership
and Associations

1983 – 1985 Member of the Northern Transvaal Private
Practioners Group

1985 – 1986 Chairperson – Northern Transvaal Private
Practioners Group

1997 – 2002 OTASA Member (Occupational Therapy Association
of South Africa)

1984 – 2002 SAISI Member (South African Institute for
Sensory Integration)

1990 – 1994 Secretary and Treasurer of the Standing
Committee

1993
One of the Founders of the Institute for
Occupational Therapist’s in Private Practice (INSTOPP)

1993 – 1999 Board member (INSTOPP)

1997 – 2002 Member of the Northern American Saddle Horse
Union

1998 – 1999 Vice-Chairman of the Northern American Saddle
Horse Union

1997 – 1996 Secretary for the Transvaal Parents Organization
at the Skuilkrans

Primary School.

1994 – 2002 Member of the Edu – K Foundation in South
Africa

1998 – 1999 Member of the Man-Animal Contact

1999 – 2011 ANC member involved in Community Development

2009 Director of Now Women International
(empowering women)

2009 Member of Progressive Women’s
Movement of South Africa

(Greater Johannesburg) and is serving on their
Steering Committee.

Member – ANC Women’s League

2016 -2023 Registered with ASCHP – Association fort
Supportive Counsellors

and Holistic Practitioners – Licensed
to provide counselling within

                    the
scope of practice – Specialist Wellness Counselor – Registration                    number
896

4.
Research
Study’s (not Published)

1986
Research Study for the Reflexology Association
of South Africa

1993
Research done in conjunction with Dr. Louis
Bierman, Neurologist about Light and Sound Technology with children with
Learning Disabilities

1996
Research study on the influence of horse
Riding (Hippotherapy) on a baby with Tuberosclerosis in conjunction with Dr. M.
Lippert, a Neurologist.

1996
– 1999 Research project on children at the
Zenith School, measuring their development after following a specific
therapeutic programme for several years.

1996
– 1999 Started Zenith School as one of 3
Directors/Founders. Intimately involved in developing and changing the school’s
curriculum. Not involved any more

2006 PhD through the British Commonwealth
University on what happens in the brain because of therapeutic horse-riding PhD
Philosophy

2010 -2023 PhD Natural Medicine (handed in)

2012 Started a satellite practice and
School (Mindworx Academy) in Klerksdorp and Groblersdal.

2012 Opening satellite branches of SATRA
in Hartbeespoortdam, Klerksdorp and Groblersdal.

2019-2022 Brilliant Brainworx Academy – Tutor and
SATRA branch in Eikenhof, Johannesburg-South

2022
Moved the Centre tot
Modimolle/Bela Bela

5.
Courses
Presented

5.1
Study-Methods Courses between 1989 – 1997 for
INSTOPP and Privately in community

5.2
Nursery School Course 1994 for INSTOPP and
Privately in community

5.3
Eyeterapy Course 1996

5.4
Brain Gym I and II 1995 – South African Edu-Co
Foundation

5.5
Training of Pre-Primary and Primary Schoolteachers
between 1985 – 2009

5.6
Therapy with the older Child in Cape-Town 1996
for Occupational Therapists

5.7
Therapy with the older Child in Johannesburg
1997 for Occupational Therapist

5.8
Focus on Reading – 1999 at the University of
Pretoria

5.9
Courses are presented on regular basis at the
practice e.g., reading, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, life-skills, etc.

5.10
Presenting an Instructors Level 1, 11, 111 courses
on therapeutic horse riding. Now there
are more than 1,800 students all over South Africa and in other countries.

5.11
2006 – Stimulation of the baby in Utero –
Sister Lilian

5.12
2006 – Stimulation of the baby in Utero –
Netcare Group

5.13
2007 – Obesity – Emirates

5.14
For the past 27 years presenting Stimulating
the baby pre-natal and post-natal, Therapeutic horse-riding courses, teacher-
and parent training. It is still a running concern

6.
Other

6.1
Started a Private School in Tzaneen 1996 and
was only involved for a year.

6.2
Compiled a Book on Study Methods for the
Occupational Therapists, 1995

6.3
Written a children story book to develop
reading skills and that goes together with a CD/tape

6.4
Published articles in various magazines and
newspapers e.g., Landbouweekblad, Record Magazine, The Star, etc.

6.5
Being interviewed on various radio stations e.g.,
Radio Jacaranda, Radio Safari, Radio Sonder Grense (RSG), etc.

6.6
Being on television 3 – SABC 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002.

6.7
Started a disabled class on Saddle Horse shows
on National level 1998 – 2017

6.8
Invited to lecture at the University of
Sidney, Australia in July 1999

6.9
Visited Zambia, Malawi and Mozambique about
Job creation, Social Development and Re-training of teachers. Still working in the SADEC countries

6.10
Malawi 2006 – Healing Centre and Aids Farm

6.11
Emirates – Invited to look at the possibility
of starting a Wellness Centre

6.12
Started the Jonathan Livingstone Seagull
Centre, School for Children with special needs and a housing component (hostel)
at the beginning of 2005.

6.13
2016 Started to work on a research study on
Dolphin Therapy.

6.14
2008-2022 In Numerous Newspapers and Radio
Stations

6.15
Starting to do Research on Animal Assisted
Therapy (2009 – 2017)

6.16
Director/owner Mindworx Academy (Started a new
private school with a difference)

6.17
Wise Women Academy Director) – an
international organization empowering woman 2008. Not a running concern
currently but workshops and individual consultations are taking place.

6.18
Changed Mindworx Academy’s name to Brilliant
Brainworx Academy 2017 and is still registered and a running concern.

7.
Interests

7.1
Philosophy

7.2
Flower Arrangements

7.3
Wedding cakes (Cake Decorating)

7.4
Music

7.5
Guitar

7.6
Showing Horses (and horse riding)

7.7
Writing of Children Story Books

7.8
Cookery

7.9
Reading

7.10
Horse Psychology

7.11 Patenting of Educational Toys

7.12 Africa Drumming

7.13 Stimulating unborn babies

7.14 Community Development

7.15 Dolphin therapy

7.16 Animal Assisted Therapy

7.17 Job creation, social development, and
re-training of teachers in the African

Countries

TO SUMMURIZE:

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE & BUSINESS OWNERSHIP

Professionally, she started a business/practise with a
full multi-disciplinary team of 28 staff, creating employment and teamwork with
psychologists, physiotherapists, bio-kinesiologists, occupational therapists,
speech therapists, music therapists, etc. This was an organisation for 47
years. The practice moved to Modimolle/Bela Bela 2022.

Started a private school for learners with special
needs in 2005 and it is still a running business.

Founder/Director of The South African Therapeutic Horse-Riding
Association (SATHRA) 27 years ago and it is still a running business. Currently
there are more than 1,800 enrolled students nationally and internationally. The course is Internationally Accredited. It
is also a registered NPO.

Started a home for children/adults with special needs
in 2005. This is still to be built in Modimolle/Bela Bela

Founder/Director of Wise Women Academy in 2008. Not active now as private consultation and workshops
are now the trend.

Founder/co-owner Now Women Academy International in
2009. Not active as private
consultations and workshops are now the trend

Founder Mindworx Academy in 2009.

Established a pre-natal/post-natal baby clinic (still
a running business).

Developed and presented courses for teacher training,
au pair/facilitator training as well as parent training 27 years ago. The courses are Internationally Accredited.

Established and managed a clinic for the treatment of
obesity that has been active since 1999 and still a running concern.

Developed a wellness centre where “health” is the
focus and not “sickness”, which is also a current business.

For 47 years a business owner/operator, public
speaker, motivational and inspirational.

Young has a passion
for Community work and has been involved in Community work over many years,
looking at job-creation, social-development, HIV/AIDS programs, retraining of
teachers and the upliftment of Women.
She has a passion for the African Countries where she does upliftment
work in the rural communities. She is
currently involved in a Human Trafficking project where young girls and women
are stolen from Malawi and abused in South Africa.

Young successfully
treated people with Substance Abuse and she developed a unique program which
differs totally from the conventional mundane 12-point approach used Nationally
and Internationally in Rehabilitation Centre’s.

As co-owner of several
Game farms and lodges was responsible for organizing hunter’s programs,
accommodation, catering as well as recovery and dressing of carcasses.

Here is Engela and her Inspiring Personal Plan for 2023

My vision statement:

To be renowned as an
anointed, compassionate and wise-model who passionately will mold and shape the
lives of the people that cross my path to by physically, wise, prepared and
motivated to follow the path directed by the divine spirit to be abundantly
successful and joyful through extra-ordinary emotional-, communication and
social skills while living a happy, healthy, and wealthy life totally balanced
in body, mind, soul and spirit.

For my inspiring
personal plan for 2023 the following is important:

·
I must stay focused and focus
on supporting my strengths, and then all work what comes, will follow naturally.

·
I must stay tough-minded and
draw lines and boundaries within which I protect and preserve the mental and
emotional space to myself, and others and one must always be true to one self.

·
Be compassionate to everyone
no matter the level of connection.

·
Keep on building on my own
skills and help other to build skills and teach them how to use it. By doing that, you create the environment in
which we all want to live.

·
To become good, you need to
live it, breathe it, and sleep it.

·
Act from autonomy where I
look at:

a) Task
– what do I need to do?

b) Time
– when do I need to do it?

c) Technique
– how to do it?

d) Team
– know the people whom I do it with

·
To have the knowledge by
investing aggressively and entrepreneurially in the future and gain sufficient
knowledge in using the technology and the media

·
To have empathy and always
treat others as I would wish to be treated.

·
To make this compassionate
ethos a vibrant force where all voices can be heard

·
I am finite while God is
infinite. So, it is important to
multiply our efforts through Him and watch the areas of your life move towards
winning like never before

·
The future belongs to people
who can spread creative ideas and be an Evangelist

·
To be passionate, grow and
thrive by doing what excites one

·
To magnetize myself and
others

·
Create a magnetized pull-on
people and business so when the market is designed to protect the environment,
it attracts brainpower and capital growth toward green solutions – by doing
this, we can align human aspirations with planetary needs and save. The road to sustainability goes through a clear-eyed
look at sustainability.

·
Confidence – confident people
have a come-this-way charisma that generates a following. When you have it, you propel yourself and
your team forward into the future:

a) Feed
your mind good stuff

b) Exercise
your gratitude muscle

·
Slow capital can be good as
it takes the time to understand the company and the people who make it up.

·
Generosity – If you make a
difference, people will gravitate to you.
The more you give, the more you get – Seth Godin

·
To be courageous

·
Plan to be the most of
everything. Everything I do must be
meaningful to myself and others. We are
responsible for our own experience.

·
To strive towards excellence
– I like the 19 E’s of Tom Peters

·
To be a leader – leadership
more than influence. It is about reminding people of what it is we are trying
to build and why it matters. It is about
painting a picture for a better fortune.

·
You are only as rich as the
enrichment you bring to the world around you – Rajesh Setty

(a) Therefore
commit

(b) Care

(d) Communicate

(e) Expand
capacity

·
To attract

·
To be honest, authentic and
speak for my passion

·
To be fascinated and to
fascinate

·
To make the difference

·
To be a world Healer

·
To sacrifice – Is your
business designed to be a winning business?
Is your business willing to sacrifice losing customer to win customers
(John Moore)

·
To focus would be most
important.

·
To take the leap – “show
people, don’t tell people”

·
To be a good communicator.

(a) Heart
– engage your community from a place of passion and compassion

(b) Simplicity
– even a 9-year-old should be able to understand me.

·
To educate

·
To be productive – make
things happen

·
To have willpower

·
To “mesh” – some things are
best shared if we work together.

·
To trust

·
To have remarkable social
skills

·
To know – knowing. Declare war on passivity. Find your backbone and your wings – this is
the only way to be able to fly.

·
To easily admit “I am sorry”

·
To know when is enough and
have quality personal life.

·
To use my expertise and never
stop learning, as you learn more, you learn how much you don’t know.

·
Forever – we are
immortal. The result of everything we do
today, will last forever (Fawkes)

·
Neoteny – be childlike and
enjoy it

·
Celebrate life

·
See life as an adventure –
journey with a zeal

·
To be an independent diplomat
(Ross)

·
Everything I do should be
context.

·
Keep up with change. What is working well, right now and can I
better it.

Young
has a passion for research and is currently doing research on animal-assisted
therapy and dolphin therapy as this will be a future product at her practise.
She has a gift and a passion to work with people of all ages, from unborn up to
the stage of death. She continuously strives to enable people to use maximum of
their potential.

All other than academic qualifications were acquired
specifically to ensure maximum results when working with people in her current
businesses.

She has published
story books for children and is in process to patent Educational Toys. She lectured at National as well as
International Level. She has a passion
for people and continuously strives to enable them to use the maximum of their
potential. She is also involved in training of rugby-players, cyclists, and
other athletes. She also has a passion for the spiritual realms and is not a “Lady in a Box”.

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Dr. Engela’s Biography

47 years of workexperience

47 years of work
experience