Spannendes Angebot von UBUNTU CO-CREATE:
I am writing to invite you to join a 7-week Ubuntu-based decolonial journey that Nontokozo and I are offering – starting in April every Wednesday from 17:00 CET. The group will be small, with no more than 20 people, and will involve deep inner work and collective exploration
During this journey, we will focus on how Modernity is shaping us and sustaining in this way harm. We believe this decolonial process is inseparable from the practical responsibility of building alternative systems.
Nontokozo and I first connected through the Deep Adaptation Forum (DAF), an international movement fostering collaboration in response to climate-related societal disruption and collapse. In DAF, Nontokozo played a key role in anti-racism and decolonization efforts—work that profoundly shaped my own understanding.
It was through my engagement with Nontokozo that I finally found the words for the collective shadow I had sensed but struggled to articulate after decades of working on climate change and sustainability. I began to see how deeply sustainable development is entangled with the culture of Modernity—a realization that shifted my perspective entirely.
For those unfamiliar with social science and philosophy (like me), Vanessa Andreotti beautifully describes Modernity as:
„A ubiquitous story of linear progress, development, evolution, and civilization that is all around us. It informs the ways we think, imagine, hope, and desire. It also shapes our neurobiology—where we source pleasure, what we’re afraid of (and what has authority over ourselves). Modernity is the water we, as fish, are all swimming in.“
Thanks to these amazing indigenous teachers and decolonial scholars and practitioners, many of us are realising that we cannot work on systemic issues and reimagine alternatives without understanding how Modernity shapes and claims us and hence sustains harm.
This April, we invite you to join our 7-week Ubuntu-based decolonial journey, where we will explore the impact of colonization on our bodies, minds, family systems, communities, and worldview through an intersectional lens of oppression. In a world entangled in polycrises, we will also examine the assumptions, investments, and desires that sustain these challenges.
Rooted in Ubuntu and inspired by decolonial futures, deep adaptation, and inner process work, this journey blends theory and practice, creating space for critical reflection and re-rooting in the kind of ancestors we want to become.
We would love for you to join us.
You can find out more on our website or via Schumacher Institute, which are supporting our course.
Warm regards,
Malika
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Dr Malika Virah-Sawmy
Facilitator, Social entrepreneur, Storyteller and Researcher, Generative Coach and Evaluator, Community and Dreamweaver
@ Sensemakers Collective on Generative Facilitation
@One Africa Leadership & Entrepreneurship Programme
@ Endeva on Societal Innovation and Inclusive business
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