Ubuntu can be understood as the importance of being connected to each other. This kind of personal connection extends to the workplace too. Research shows that less frequent interactions among coworkers affects overall health and ...
We all have an inherent need to belong, and that means something different for each one of us. In the workplace, its important that individuals feel like a valued member of a team. We can ...
Education and liberation go hand in hand. But when educators lose sight of what (and who) matters, students suffer. In Teaching to Thrive, the podcast of the Abolitionist Teaching Network, transformative educational leader and activist ...
Harmonious relations are at the heart of Ubuntu, a South African philosophy often expressed in English as “A person is a person through other persons.” Ubuntu contrasts with the individualized Eurocentric perspective on society and ...
Ecological thinking, or understanding ourselves as part of nature, means that we recognize how human activity impacts ecosystems. This nonlinear, cause-and-effect perspective acknowledges that we are connected to the larger whole and not sequential points ...
According to Catherine Morris, the founding director of Peacemakers Trust, peacebuilding “involves a full range of approaches, processes, and stages needed for transformation toward more sustainable, peaceful relationships and governance modes and structures.” Peacebuilding is ...
Restorative justice, one of the principles of the Unbuntuworks Project, aims to address crime and its impacts in humane ways through rehabilitation, reconciliation, and repair. Instead of viewing a criminal act as a violation, or ...
Kindness at work is one of the principles of the Ubuntuworks Project. However, the workplace may not be the first place that comes to mind when thinking about compassion, love, and kindness. Research shows that ...
Mindfulness is a key principle of the Ubuntuworks Project. Being mindful means focusing our awareness to be fully present in the moment. Curiosity and awareness can result in gaining insight into our patterns of thinking, ...
One of the main principles of the Ubuntuworks Project is active listening. In the workplace, this skill has become a lost art form. As your manager or a difficult co-worker talks, it’s important to listen ...
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