Christo van Staden

Collective & individual well-being.
Organisation Development practitioner.
Enneagram. Leadership maturity. Existential coaching. Biodanza.
Poet.

[Christo van Staden @ChristoMove]

To have a conversation is to turn together; it is a dance that reveals unexpected insights, feelings, and possibilities. Conversation is an act of care in which we can stand forth in the presence of others and in the mystery of sharing a world.

[Christo van Staden @ChristoMove]

@landbourainier Ag asseblief, fok.

[Laila Al-Arian @LailaAlarian]

Yesterday Israel killed an 8 year old boy in Gaza wearing a backpack on the way home from school.

His name was Jad.

The only reason western mainstream news outlets didn’t report on his killing is because he’s Palestinian.

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

“Poets are not to blame for how things are.”

―Homer, The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Nick Maynard: "Let me tell you about Zainab, a 7mth old girl.. we had run out of formula feed.. she died whilst I was there.. 4 days before she died a group of US drs had brought in formula feed.. they had every bottle deliberately removed by the Israeli border guards"

Sept 2025

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

Unless the world takes action, Israel will eradicate the Palestinian people. That is their ultimate plan. Many people, especially your government officials, who support and fund Israel and its crimes look on without issue. Some even cheer on these atrocities. They have no problem smelling our blood and burnt flesh. They have no issue watching our children’s brains spill from their heads, or fetuses struck by shrapnel and killed alongside their mothers.

It falls on everyone to stop this. Your tax dollars have been funding the weapons Israel uses to carry out these terrorist strikes and crimes.
What are you doing each day to change this? We aren’t asking for tanks, F-16s, or F-35s; we are just asking you to stop sending the bombs and bullets.
Demand that your media stop covering this up. Your media is complicit.
Do everything in your power to stop Israel’s actions, just as your government does everything to enable them.
I should not have to beg you. It is your responsibility!
DO SOMETHING

[Rawan katari @rawankatari1]

كُنت حامل في شهري التاسع وأشعر بتحاسيس الولادة وقلت لزوجي وأهله أشعر بمغص فقمت بتحضير حقيبه الولادة
ونمت
وفي الساعه العاشره وربع مساءً بلحظة غدر تم قصف البيت واستشهد زوجي وتوأمه وأمه وابنتي ذات العامين
لم أتذكر سوى خيالات أشلائهم وفقدت وعيي
استيقظت وجدت نفسي في العناية المركزة مصابة بعد ٤٨ ساعه غيبوبه تم بتر رجلي ولم يستطيع الأطباء إنقاذ ابني وتم دفنهم جميعهم دون وداعهم
رحمهم اللّٰه
وبقيت وحدي
نرمين شعث
من شهادات الإباده

[Christo van Staden @ChristoMove]

@marklevinshow Lucky Ireland!

[Alina Stefanescu @aliner]

Heartbreaking loss.

https://t.co/dmiaRQbxV5

[Christo van Staden @ChristoMove]

@ShaiDavidai @ZaidJilani @AaronRegunberg We South Africans see you, dude. We know your stories. We Afrikaners used to tell them.

[Christo van Staden @ChristoMove]

@aliner This used to be a thing among the Afrikaners in the last decade of apartheid.

[Krishnamurti @K__Quotes]

To bring about a radical change in the structure of society, mustn’t you and I fundamentally transform ourselves?

[Christo van Staden @ChristoMove]

@fredman_a That's desperate logic.

[Christo van Staden @ChristoMove]

@erdwurmboer Because they're almost always the more interesting characters.

[Christo van Staden @ChristoMove]

@BernardJansen Nope. My engagement with it is one of reluctancy.

[Christo van Staden @ChristoMove]

@Arfness In a month, no less.

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

"Anyone who didn't run at the soldiers' pace got hit with a baton... Old people, women, babies... We set up detention camps for 80-year-olds..."

Itzhak Ini Abadi, Israel's military governor of Gaza in the early 70's

[Mahmoud Massri | مَحْمُود 🇵🇸 @MahmoudMassri15]

50,000 Children in Gaza have lost at least 1 limb

[Mahmoud Massri | مَحْمُود 🇵🇸 @MahmoudMassri15]

We will never forget how this young man tried to save his mother, dragging her in the most basic way—until an Israeli soldier suddenly fired a shell at them, killing them both instantly.