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Toxic Work Spaces

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Toxic Work Spaces

We help professionals make sense of their work experiences & advise them on how to navigate the workplace, especially .

28/05/2026

There is a pattern we have been tracking closely through direct conversations with therapists and counselors, through the wave of posts from professionals across sectors who are quietly exiting, and through what the research has been signalling for some time now.

The people society has appointed to hold everyone else together are leaving the profession. Not because the work lost its meaning. Because everything constructed around the work has made staying the least sustainable option.

The mental health industry, which is the very field built to name harm and identify toxic work spaces has a workplace culture problem it has never turned inward to examine. That is not an observation but a structural failure.

This is the work Toxic Work Spaces was built for. Culture intervention before the breaking point, and a path back to self for the practitioners already past it.

We're exploring what needs to change first. Is it the way institutions treat the people inside them, or the people finding the courage to demand better?

15/05/2026

If your body has been asking for a break for months and you have been answering it with coffee, this is for you 👇

You might think it is resilience but it is postponement and at some point, the body stops asking politely.

Corporate wellness, as it is mostly practiced, is a plaster on a wound that needs surgery, a fruit basket, a mindfulness app nobody opens or a one-hour session on resilience that asks employees to be stronger inside systems that are making them sick.

The Zen Experience Retreat is built on a different premise entirely that before a team can perform sustainably, they need to decompress deliberately. That the nervous system is not a soft topic and that what work does to the body is real, measurable, and reversible but only if you actually stop long enough to address it.

For a few hours, we will experience a somatic practice, a structured conversation, a named framework for what your people have been carrying and a toolkit they leave with, not just a memory of a nice morning.

We are waiting for YOU in Mombasa to sign up and get to join us on the 1st of June 2026. More details on the poster.

Secure your spot today through the link in bio.

08/05/2026

If you're new here, this is what you need to know about us 👇

Toxic Work Spaces exists because too many professionals are carrying the weight of workplaces that harmed them and not enough spaces exist that name it plainly, hold it honestly, and offer a way through.

What began as a consultancy has become a multi-layered platform: part education, part community, part corporate intervention.

We work with individuals who need to process what happened to them, professionals building careers in environments that are still compromised, and organisations willing to do the harder work of cultural change before the breakdown, not after.

05/05/2026

Are you a professional in Mombasa?

Are you in need of a Reset, Recharge & Reconnect experience?

Join us for a transformative half-day Corporate Retreat designed to help you release stress, gain clarity, and build meaningful connections. In a tranquil, oceanfront escape.

📍 Kingstone, Nyali, Mombasa
📅 1st June 2026
⏱️ 12:00 pm- 3:00 pm
💰 KES 3,000

Whether you’re seeking balance, growth, or simply a breath of fresh perspective, this is your moment.

Secure your spot TODAY here 👇
https://forms.gle/obSksf2Q6AVrj2T7A

30/04/2026

The ILO confirmed that 840,000 people die every year from conditions linked to workplace stress.

Leaders carry the weight of entire organisations in their bodies. And most of us haven't actually rested, not really, in a long, long time.

Are you a professional in Mombasa? Check this out

Together with Growth Bridge, we're inviting you to join us for a half-day corporate retreat for professionals eager to release, renew, and rise in unity. Whether you're looking to clarity, connection, or simply a chance to take a deep breath, consider this your invitation.

More details like what awaits you are on the poster

29/04/2026

Corporate wellness doesn't sell readiness. It sells recovery.

By the time most companies bring in a wellness program, someone has already broken down, quietly resigned, or started making mistakes that cost the organisation.

Here is what nobody is saying out loud 👇

Most of your employees are not fine. They are managing the fastest workplace shift in a generation with AI changing job descriptions in real time, workloads accelerating, and a quiet, creeping fear that they might not make it through.

That is a nervous system problem and no team-building day or lunch treat will fix that.

Your people need readiness before the breakdown and not after.

Soon, we'll be co-hosting Before the Breaking Point-A half-day corporate wellness/zen retreat built for the workplace you actually have right now.

We'll cover 👇

👉 Nervous system regulation, what dysregulation looks like in your team and how to interrupt it

👉 How to spot burnout before it becomes resignation or breakdown

👉 Practical solo wellness tools or things your people can do alone, quietly, in the middle of the day, to return to themselves

👉 Naming AI-era pressure honestly so the fear stops being invisible and starts being workable

This is a half-day that your team will actually remember and need to fuel them through.

If your organisation is ready to stop waiting for the breaking point, send us a message and let's talk about how they can benefit from this, especially those in Mombasa.

22/04/2026

What would you paint if someone handed you a canvas and asked: what has work done to you?

We're hosting a paint session for people who've been marked by the workplace.

06/04/2026

This April, Toxic Work Spaces is hosting its first roundtable and the people saying yes to this conversation are not coming with polished answers. They are coming with honesty.

Charles Muthui, who told us work is quietly shaping your character in ways you don't even notice. Abi, who carries the version of herself that learned to notice things but wasn't safe enough to say them — into every room she works in now. Doreen, who named the truth that the most important conversations about work are happening in the margins, away from the people with the power to change anything. And Moses, who sits across from people every day trying to piece themselves back together and traces the thread back, more often than not, to a workplace.

These are just some of the voices joining us. We'll feature more this week.

04/04/2026

If you feel f*******cked up professionally, either recently or in the past few years, you're now in your late 20s, 30s or 40s and you’re wondering if it’s “too late” to get back on track after leaving a toxic work space...it’s not and we hope you find our page.

This page is also for those considering leaving a toxic work space and the ones who are quietly asking whether what happened to them was normal. It's also for the ones who are finally ready to name it, understand it, and figure out what comes next.

Toxic work doesn't just cost you time. It costs you confidence, clarity, and sometimes your whole professional identity.

But reinvention is not a young person's privilege. And starting over is not the same as starting from nothing.

If you found this page, welcome. You're in the right place and re-invention is possible.

18/03/2026

𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐭𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐨-𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐭, Shi Kang'ethe
Founder of Toxic Work Spaces (Official)

Shi Kang'ethe leads work at the intersection of AI governance, ethics, and people-centred AI adoption across Africa and her track record speaks for itself:

👉 Facilitator of a two-part webinar series on the State of Women in AI with Youth+ Africa
👉Contributing author to the State of AI Ethics Report 2025
👉 Moderator, Gendering AI Conference 2024 and Co-curator 2025
👉 Co-curator, African Women School of AI
👉 Featured speaker in Global Solidarity in the Age of AI (Intercouncil Network – Canada)

In a world where AI is moving fast, most organisations don’t fall behind because of the technology. They fall behind because people aren’t equipped, governance isn’t clear, and ethics are treated as an afterthought.

Shi Kang'ethe brings the opposite: clarity, responsibility and action.
That’s exactly the kind of leadership we need as we shape the future of AI in Africa.

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Monday	11:00 - 16:00
Tuesday	11:00 - 16:00
Wednesday	11:00 - 16:00
Thursday	12:00 - 16:00
Friday	11:00 - 15:00

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