Ilze Olckers

Ilze Olckers practiced as a human rights lawyer in South Africa during the apartheid era and during the transition to democracy. During this time she also participated in the constitution and other legislative drafting processes, the National Women’s Coalition, the TRC as well as in policy and systems development of gender and race machinery in a post-apartheid South Africa including the Womens Budget initiative and training and transformation of the Judiciary.

Since the 2000’s she has been working as an independent justice and organisational development consultant and facilitator, focussing on personal, organisational and curriculum justice and transformation.

In this time of climate and social collapse, she is exploring working with different systemic and transformational approaches including the Deep Adaptation Framework developed by Prof Jem Bendell and have recently taken the ecosattva vows developed by Joanna Macy with Tibetan nun Ani Tsondru. She is mother to 2 teenage boys and lives in Muizenberg between the mountain, the vlei and the ocean, with her partner Stef, a founding member of Earthlife Africa all the way back in the ‘80’s.