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Welcome to the Ubuntu Circles Training Guide, a transformative journey towards understanding and healing the complex issues of diversity, race relations, and spirituality. Authored by The Rev. Michael Battle, Ph.D., this guide is a powerful resource designed to help individuals and communities engage with these challenging topics spiritually and communally. Through his work on Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s theology of Ubuntu, He has learned how an African worldview offers a purposeful process and method of engagement that facilitates synergy between the individual and community. Before Ubuntu can be recognized, an indaba, a purposeful small group gathering, acknowledges first and foremost that there are issues that need to be addressed effectively to foster ongoing communal living.
Indaba enables otherwise reluctant participants to engage and speak openly while at the same time mindful of privileged persons and the backdrop of who is powerful in our societies. And of course, mindful of how often those in power can silence the voice of so many people. Ubuntu Circles encourage person to person encounters so that all voices are in proximity to one another. Such proximity can produce the best outcomes of restorative justice and peacemaking.
