Join us in Tanzania Sept 19 for Metafari YaTatu

This is to invite anyone who would like to join the next Metafari, starting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on September 2009.

http://www.metafari.com

The Metafari is not a traditional course in any way, it's an experience journey. What it could give to you, I have no idea of. To me it has provided so much that even if nobody joins anymore I am happy enough for what I have invested through three trips and 7 weeks in Tanzania since Nov 2007

• I have, on a much deeper level, understood about my competencies and about my skills. And about my capacity to use them in new environments
• I have gained a new understanding of organisations as living systems in contrast of organisations as machinery.
• The mangrove Tidal Swamp in Tanga also gave me some surprisingly effective personal tools to manage moods.
  

Rafael ole Moono has also become one of my very best friends, and a natural partner. Rafael is a Retired Warrior/Younger Elder born on the Maasai steppe north of Handeni Tanzania. He was one of the very few of his agegroup who got to go to school. After primary school and 8 years in the Benedectiner School close to Kilimanjaro the idea was for him to be a scholar of some kind, but he chose to return to his settlement to work as a mediator. He has a NGO called "Imusot e Purka" which in Ma means appr "Awareness to All"

The Metafari is not a Safari. And it is not a course where we visit a Maasai village and then give our reflections on "them". Rafael is my partner, and our local connection. Being a Maasai we can work directly with English and Maasai languge when we stay at the Nanyogie Maasai Settlement.

The Metafari has been made possible thanks to Ruth Nesje who is building the Tanga International Conference Center in Tanga, Tanzania. The http://www.MeetingPointTanga.net is built on the principles of Appreciative Inquiry and is a totally amazing effort.

Joining the Metafari will take your journey from Dar es Salaam, to the waterhole of Mikumi National Park, into the amazing story of Ruth's dreams and for a deep encounter with the Maasai people of Nanyogie Settlement.

After the Metafari you can stay at the Centre, or explore Zanzibar, the Usambara mountains or whatever you might want to do. Ruth and her staff will be able to arrange whatever you dream about to explore.

Finally.... People ask me about "selling" something like this in the big crisis. I have two personal answers...

• From Rafael: Aha, so the economy has gone down 5%.... Well wait until it has gone down 90%... Then we will be in more equal positions.
• Maybe it is just now that we desperately need new perspectives. And to look for new answers within ourselves with the help of new teachers. Like the Waterhole, the Termite mound, The Tidal Swamp. Or from each others
  

Welcome to join!

Please explore www.metafari.com for images, films. Join or create your own Meta[?]

ps. At the bottom you see. "Metafari - Open Source Leadership course" - Kate Coutts of Shetland Island took this as a challenge. So there is now a Metasaga which is an official part of the School Leadership Training of Shetland/Orkney/Western Isles
Kate is bloggin in the Metafari Blog: http://metafari.blogspot.com/search/label/Metasaga

What can the place teach us?
Leif Josefsson