What we do

Our choice of activity may be explained with the metaphor of the four wings of transformative Earth care depicted as a dragonfly, symbolising change, love, liberation, ecological health and new beginnings – guiding us to practice mindfulness and compassion and cultivate right thought, right speech, right action and right livelihood in the regeneration of Africa’s Rivers, Lakes and Springs as reverence for Mother Earth.

The four wings together, allow the dragonfly to soar, as life flourishes and are illustrated as follows:

Trauma integration and healing
In this activity we become aware of the damaging views and values that underpin our separateness from each other and other beings. We look to weave together and work with others, to promote spaces for healing, where we can come together in storytelling and conversation and share our deepest fears and greatest joys and aspirations. In these times of unravelling, the healing process is necessary to awaken consciousness, and supports us in overcoming fear, panic, numbness, or animosity towards each other as we go forth into the great mystery. We cultivate love, compassion, understanding and reverence for all life – ubuntu.
Co-creating
We work with intentional communities and other forms of popular collaboration for right livelihood. We support strengthening of diverse traditional systems and seek to ensure climate resilience and ecosystem integrity through indigenous wisdom and spiritual connection.

Emerging design
We undertake action research, working with existing structures to investigate constraints to building relations with each other, and creating beloved community in our aspirations for nature and community wellbeing. We offer support to enhance emergent ways of being and foreground life reverent practices.
Life’s flourishing
Mindful collaborative action implies constant attention to appreciative inquiry, learning, unlearning and re-membering, at a personal, organisational, community and societal level. Within any landscape we seek alignment among actors in that ecosystem, so that it is easier to weave collaborative action for life’s flourishing.

Guiding Ethos

Mindful that we are part of nature and not separate, we walk gently on the Earth, filled with reverence for all life. Embracing every moment, we practice botho, trust, and gratitude. We celebrate our interbeing, and embody the ethos of reciprocity, and right livelihood. We see these as critical to the success of the work that we do.

@Asase Harmony 2022

Asase Harmony

We recognise that the resolution of our ecological, climate and social challenges is complex and rife with uncertainty. We are constantly in flux. Designs for action must thus be guided by contemplative practices, the regenerative local cultures, cosmologies and ecology. There is no panacea, or “one size fits all” solution.

Programme Streams

Our programmes work to optimize possibilities for wellbeing and life flourishing within different biospheres and particularly in the buffer zones of compromised sacred sites, holding space for safeguarding and healing of these sites. Programme streams vary according to the possibilities in different settings, and may embrace learning, food & seed sovereignty, enterprise and livelihoods strengthening, traditional wisdom and culture, holistic health, spiritual wellbeing, land and nature care, and other regenerative creations.

Connect With Us

+27 71 815 0854

botho@asaseharmony.org

Southern Africa