What is ‘Ubuntu’ and why does it matter? Archbishop Desmond Tutu says that Ubuntu ‘embraces hospitality, caring about others, being able to go the extra mile for the sake of others.’ He goes on to explain that: ‘Ubuntu is about believing that a person is a person through another person and that my humanity is caught up, bound up, inextricably, with yours.’
Would you like to hear a webinar about cross cultural learning? We’re excited to share this with you. It’s the first in our 2020 webinar series. Click here to listen to the recording. It’s around an hour in length. Click here to read some notes from one of the break-out sessions. We reflected afterwards that some of the key themes of the webinar could be considered through the notion of ubuntu, notably the importance of relationships between people
Click here to see the presentation we used for the webinar. In this you will see how Sharon (Turnbull) sums up how ‘worldly leadership’ relates to cross cultural learning and what it involves, including the ability to deal with ‘cross cultural understanding, inclusion and effectiveness’. Click here to read a paper on ‘Worldly Leadership’ by Sharon. And here for a paper on ‘Cross Cultural Communication’ by Peter (Moore).
We would like to thank everyone that took part in the webinar, particularly Shivani (Singhal) and Liv (Sawyer) for their scene setting contributions that stimulated such a good discussion.
Martin Derry quote (Martin is a leader of a NGO called Pronet in northern Ghana): ‘leadership for sustainability can only be achieved where there is a shared leadership’.
Happy Wednesday!
Rosie, Lorna and Ian