Room 206 Media & Writing

{𝒜 𝑅𝑜𝑜𝓂 𝟤𝟢𝟨 𝒪𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒾𝓃𝒶𝓁}

Life is too short to waste time believing people don’t want to show you their best selves. They do.
Believe they do,
and they will.

𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 - 𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐍𝐋𝐎𝐀𝐃𝐒 𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐒𝐄 𝐌𝐈𝐃𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 𝟐𝟕 𝐀𝐔𝐆𝐔𝐒𝐓!

We’ve started a thing. A beautiful thing: our first mini-library of storybooks to support youth literacy in South Africa…and we need your help

Join our August challenge to donate a mini library of 50 storybooks for children in South Africa, when you download our Positive Pages eBook for just $3 / R 54.

Over 170 little stories of joy, written by strangers and friends and communities and teachers and sinners and mothers and fathers and daughters and wanderers and 16-year-olds dreaming of the ocean waves behind their locked door. Stories of family and gratitude and elephants and miracles – stories that changed our lives once upon a pandemic.

For just $3 / R54, it’ll change your life too – and someone else’s younger than you!

Your positive download will contribute towards a mini library of 50 fresh, fun, age-appropriate storybooks for our South African youth, in collaboration with

Come on friends, let them read!

Purchase the eBook here: https://a.co/d/jh1jIDV

*All proceeds generated from The Positive Pages eBook sales will be donated to the Read to Rise Literacy NGO

Sometimes, we need more than a KPI to get through the month . All the feels with the KLM Empowered team 🫶

➡️ To reignite team connection sign your team up for an enriching 206 Effect communication workshop!

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A note-to-self from our Founder Natasha Fracchiolla

I’ve recently taken up running (more like jogging), and in my hardest moments on my run, I’ve learnt to look for benches. When I can’t move my exhausted body another inch, I look up and I scan ahead for a bench. An actual bench.

I tell myself 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩. And together with my tired legs, we run just to that bench. And, when we get to that bench, we look up for another bench, and again I say: 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘩.

We raise up our strength, and we move - just to that bench. And guess what, we make it. I’m learning that Motivation responds to ‘benches’ and reactivates itself with each little bench ‘mark’.

The key is to trick Motivation to believe that the journey of life is just a short series of benches, never a finish line. That’s how we make it. For some of us, just getting out of bed every morning, is a bench. And that’s okay. Any bench is good enough to propel you – just one bench at a time.

So when it all gets too much, and the kids are driving you crazy, and you can’t pay the bills, and you can’t see through your tears, and your sick body has let you down, and the fear has come to choke you, and your breath is short, and there are way too many fires, and way too many boxes, and you’re all out of options, and you’re all out of love, and you think you’ve lost your mind, and you’ve definitely lost your faith…

Just to that bench, okay. You can.

{𝒜 𝑅𝑜𝑜𝓂 𝟤𝟢𝟨 𝒪𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒾𝓃𝒶𝓁}

For the Lost Soul...

Look at a blade of grass today
Like maybe it is magic
Like maybe it holds the fragility of your entire universe
Like maybe it won’t let you down
Like possibly it knows the delicacy of your splintered heart
Like it can feel you, hold you, call you by your name...
Like it loves you. Maybe.

It’s not just about sending emails or holding meetings; it’s about understanding the subtle textures of tone, the unspoken expectations behind every task assignment, and the art of listening - really listening - to what is being said between the lines.

Effective communication - the kind that truly binds a team's spirit and drives its projects, remains elusive.

So how can Room 206 help?

Our communication workshops are crafted not just to fill a training quota or team-building activity, but to address these core challenges of modern workplaces. We offer more than tools; we provide transformations - experiences that change how individuals and teams think about and engage in communication every day.

➡️ Read more about The 206 Effect here: https://www.room206.co.za/corporate-workshops

We’re raising our children to read for just $3 / R54. And we need your downloads, friends!

Help us build our first mini-library of storybooks for South Africa’s less-read children by downloading our super beautiful, super inspiring Positive Pages eBook. An anthology of over 170 little stories of joy, written by strangers and friends and communities of South Africa during the world’s most historically infected time.

You’ll receive one BIG book of real-life positive stories for just $3 /R54. Stories to uplift your soul; stories to change a life. Stories of family and gratitude and seeking and tea. Stories of elephants and miracles and unexpected celebrities that turn up at your fingers. There’s a yellow door inside too - and a loaf of bread shared at the corner. These are real people’s positive stories, written by brave and beautiful South Africans, making a real impact. Now you get to be part of it too. Join us!

🦋Head over to Amazon and purchase The Positive Pages eBook- and help us reach our goal of 50 ready-to-love library books.

All proceeds go to

Come on friends, let them read: https://a.co/d/jh1jIDV

Women’s Month Shelf Stopper!!

Mystery, love, heartbreaking sensuality, rivers, hills, running, sobbing, saving, praying; a pastor and a witch; a series of letters; a land of mystery and mountains; a protagonist so raggedly twisted and shamed, you’ll want to do nothing for the rest of the year but lace your boots and fight in her honour. This, is The Highland Witch – and it will get you.

Written in honour of brave women everywhere, this story will stir you in places you locked long ago and uncover parts of your feminine favour that you will desperately want to reclaim. This book is something else. A compelling story set in the 1600’s, based on the tumultuous legend of Corrag - the condemned highland witch. This is a novel written with such artistic and skilful delicacy, every true writer in its throes will be crestfallen by the utter (utter!) joy of its rhythm and flow. You ARE going to fall in love with this book. Or with this witch. Or with Scotland. Or with something. Either way, prepare to fall. And if you are already a fan of the Scottish Highlands…then this novel will capture you from page one, flinging you into every whispering corner of a land you love. If you know nothing of the highlands, or of Corrag, well then friend, we beckon you forward…to risk everything on 360 pages that will leave you wanting to know more. Wanting to know something. Everything. Anything.

A big shout of love to our fellow writer and a brave, beautiful woman Sarah Cohen who unsparingly recommended this book to us once upon a time – you know how to pick the gems, girl! Thank you!!

We need your help! Join our August challenge to donate a mini library of storybooks for children in South Africa, when you purchase our Positive Pages eBook for just $3 / R 54.

Your positive download will contribute towards a mini-library of 50 fresh, fun, age-appropriate storybooks for our South African youth, in collaboration with Read to Rise .

Come on friends, let them read: https://a.co/d/jh1jIDV

Resilience is a Big Word: A communication workshop for the bounce-back team.

"Resilience is a Big Word" helps teams build the resilience needed to navigate constant change and high-pressure environments. Participants learn techniques to manage stress, maintain productivity, enhance social wellbeing and bounce back from setbacks stronger than before, all through practical exercises and effective communication strategies.

If you’re looking for support with stress management and crisis communication strategies, then this workshop is for you!

𝙄𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙? DM us or email [email protected] to book a session for your team

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The 206 Effect is a communication workshop series built to inspire team connection, writing confidence, company culture, and human connection.

https://www.room206.co.za/corporate-workshops

Do you have the write goods to get you the people?

We know the worth of words when it comes to communication strategies. Having the write tools in your camp will be the difference between influencing your audience, or losing them.

𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐆𝐀𝐌𝐄-𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐈𝐏𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐏 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐂𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐑𝐄, 𝐄𝐍𝐆𝐀𝐆𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐈𝐍𝐅𝐋𝐔𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐀𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄:

1. Find the problem. Then tailor your messaging to solve the problem.
2. Create an emotional connection with your audience by using
storytelling to evoke memory, sensory perception and sentiment.
3. Get personal in your emails. People want to feel seen.
4. Drive immediate engagement with strong calls to action.

➡️Send us your brand vision and we’ll help you craft the words into sellable persuasive content that matters. DM us or email [email protected].