This is the story of a six-month intervention that enabled the successful handover of a government-run prison in the UK to a private company in 2011. I will be describing the mobilisation phase of privatisation; it is one chapter in a longer story of the transformation of the prison in private hands, and – although I won’t be covering it in detail here – nine years later the collapse of safety and security at the same prison to the point it was returned to government manageme

The Ubuntu Addiction Community Trust is a non profit and public benefit organisation that supports individuals, families, organisations and communities in addressing substance use disorders. David Collins, the founder of UACT, recognized that recovery coaching could add a forward thinking, solutions driven approach to the therapeutic and group support work already supporting the addiction space in South Africa. In 2016, UACT established a Workplace platform to support and emp