Live Ubuntu — I Am Because We Are

The Problem

"We live closer together than ever and still feel apart. Ubuntu holds an old answer: our humanity is something we receive from one another and give back. This course turns that wisdom into small, daily practices you can live with the people around you, open to everyone, whatever their language, faith or background."

What you'll achieve

Outcomes you can expect

See yourself in others and treat every person with dignity
Listen so that you can hear, and ask after the people who matter to someone
Bring people together, hold each other through hard times and decide together
Make a difference with others, and keep giving and receiving so it lasts

The science behind it

What you'll learn

What ubuntu means, and the words for it across our languages
Ngomane's fourteen lessons, from seeing yourself in others to listening so that you can hear
South African practices: ninjani, the shared pot, the indaba, talking under the tree, letsema and the stokvel spirit
What the research on belonging, listening, forgiveness, kindness and hope says about why ubuntu works

What's included

Everything you get

39 tools across 8 modules, 18 of them built for this course
A reader for every module, built from the tools and checked against them
An audio guide on every tool and a course audio guide
Private fillable workbooks for every tool, kept on your own device
The builder's pledge: seven promises to live by, one for each step of the BelongWell4Life path

Who it's for

The right fit

Designed for For anyone who wants to live better with others: students and mentors, families, colleagues and teams, faith communities, clubs and neighbours. It is also the first course on the way to the BelongWell4Life Certificate in Community Building.

Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu: a person is a person through other persons. A companion to Mungi Ngomane's Everyday Ubuntu, this course turns her fourteen lessons into an everyday practice across eight modules, each lived through a South African way of being together: the ninjani check-in, the shared pot, talking under the tree, the work party and the stokvel spirit. It ends with the builder's pledge.

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Fourteen everyday lessons in being human through others, lived the South African way

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