The Journey to Self, Community and Sustainability
The month of July has seen a deepening into the leadership programme. The three strands of self, community and sustainability have each been activated as participants have explored their personal passion and purpose through a variety of forms: movement, dialogue, and art; they have worked practically with their hands building wood saving stoves, compost toilets, and more. And the elements of community have been explored and tested as internal challenges have surfaced and had to be dealt with - sometimes gracefully, sometimes less so. Despite the challenges, the expansion of the village to include its new members (23 leadership participants) is rich and rewarding. This is how and where we learn - in community, in work, in inquiry.
Planning opportunities to learn with us
Coming up in the near and medium term future are beautiful opportunities to learn with us:
- Oasis Game and training: October 22-November 1;
- Learning Festival: Nov 16-20, co-hosted by the leadership programme, bringing together community partners and local NGOs in joint sharing around sustainable community.
- Kufunda Learning Camp is re-scheduled for July 17 - 24, 2016. It will be a lived immersion into a new story - an inter-generational deep dive into how life in community can be lived.
We will be posting more on the Learning Festival and the Learning Journey shortly.
Other News
We finally have a website for Nyeredzi - the school we are co-creating for our children and many others. It is a work in progress, but it is there now, giving you a fuller taste of the school.
Admire and Sikhethiwe will be joining the first ever Multiversity Gathering of Kindred Folk re-Imagining Higher Education. It is a gathering of all the pioneers of new ways of living and learning, coming together to cross-pollinate from innovations in education from across the world. Their participation is still pending funding. Please do consider supporting them here.
Stephen and Irvine are returning from a busy month as Warriors without Weapons in Brazil. Based on this experience, they will be helping us host an run yet another potent Oasis Game in Mhondoro community in October.
We are at the end of our indiegogo campaign to be able to bring the Water Harvester Mr Phiri to Kufunda with his Water Harvesting techniques. Mr Phiri is a world recognised pioneer in water harvesting. Bringing this work to our village and to the Leadership Programme is a way of becoming more sustainable water-wise but also as a way to demonstrate, share and spread his important work in Zimbabwe. Please have a look and join us if you will.
Ethel Chimenya, one of our alumni and apprentice hosts is about to begin her year at YIP(the Youth Initiative Programme in Sweden). We wish her a learningful journey into what will surely be a Big adventure.
We realise there are many funding campaigns going on at the moment. We hope you will be inspired to support one of them. We include some of the campaign links as well as some inspiration from the leadership programme below.
Thank you for your friendship and support!
