Leif Josefsson
Facilitator, coach, networker. Explorer of new technology and thinking. On a learning journey, whether it’s with my two-year-old grandchild or Maasai partner Rafael.
Designing, facilitating or documenting spaces and conversations, live and on-line, leading to new perspectives, possibilities for engaged change and collaboration.
My journey started as a pre school teacher, went into public administration, then took a sharp turn into IT Sales where I found a space in the area of new ideas around collaboration supported by technology. I have since the early 90’s been committed to the exploration of shared spaces. We are now heading into what I call a "Post virtual world" where real meetings will be more valuable than ever.
Ideas around the Metafari has led to deep contacts in Tanzania, but also a whole new concept being adopted by schools and coaches in Scotland, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles; the Metasaga.
Based in Stockholm Sweden I head MetaSpace AB, hopefully soon I will co-own MetaSpace Tanzania ltd with my Maasai partner Rafael Ole Moono.
Rafael ole Moono I am from the Handeni district, Tanga region in eastern Tanzania, where I work as a coordinator of a community based organisation called Imusot e Purka meaning ‘awareness to all’ in Maasai native language. I belong to the illandiis age group.
Imusot e Purka was formulated in 1997 as an awareness, advocacy and mediating platform between three conflicting parties in the once wider Handeni district, now divided into two districts; Kilindi and Handeni:
Pastoralists who have been ‘far’ from the government authorities but should know about the government and its laws and policies
Cultivators who are always in conflict when the pastoralists graze animals in their cultivated farms
Government leaders who seem distant from the pastoralist community when implementing unfavourable national policies.
My work is to link these parties to set up a table of discussion for something to happen without prejudice or conflict.
We Maasai embrace nature as it offers to celebrate the completeness of the creation and for this reason it matters that we are related to Metafari which derives wider meaning about natural foundation.
Metafari is for everyone. Even a local guide and an expert in this wild can be a discoverer.
