Rekindling a Reverence for Life
For us and the next seven generations
Seven Generations Africa creates the spaces where what has been kept apart can meet. Whether on the mountain, in a room or in wider conversations, we support the experiences that help us remember the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible and bring forth this New Era of a humanity in harmony with nature.
The New Era is also called:
Sumak kawsay (Kichwa) · Mitákuye Oyás'iŋ (Lakota) · Doughnut economics (Kate Raworth) · Jannah (Islamic) · Symbiocene (Glenn Albrecht) · Pure Land (Buddhist) · Ecotopia (Ernest Callenbach) · Ñande reko (Guaraní) · The Kingdom (Christian) · Half-Earth (E.O. Wilson) · Datong (Confucian) · Wellbeing economy · Mauri ora (Māori) · New Earth (Revelation) · Ecological civilisation (Chinese state policy) · Botho (Sotho-Tswana) · Beloved Community (Josiah
Also called Ubuntu in Africa, Nature Positive in conservation efforts or The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible by Charles Eisenstein.
We all can sense what these terms are pointing to. A better world. A kinder one too. Certainly a healthier one.
Everyone here is describing the same place. We are just not agreeing on the road or on who else is allowed to arrive.
Seven Generations Africa supports anyone creating this future, and make sure everyone is included.
WELCOME
Everyone knows something is breaking. The ecological and economic ruptures underway are no longer news and seem like they are only getting worse.
Instead of starting from the assumption that people need better arguments or stricter targets, Seven Generations Africa believes that the fragmentation showing up in our ecosystems, our institutions and our psyches is the same fragmentation, appearing at different scales. We believe the crises of today are not problems to solve but rather an invitation for humanity to mature towards wholeness.
And wholeness (a person's or a society's) is never argued or engineered into being. It is hosted. It happens when the fragments are given room to meet without having to translate themselves first, and what emerges is something none of them could have designed alone.
So we make spaces. On the mountain, in the room, and in the wider conversation about what comes next. Retreats, immersions and guided journeys for people who need to hear themselves again. Programs for organisations bringing young people into terrain that asks something real of them. Convenings for institutions that need people in a room who don't share a language like mining and conservation, government and community, capital and the commons.
Our name is inspired by the Haudenosaunee's Gayanashagowa (Great Law of Peace), which asks that decisions be made with the faces of those yet to come held in mind. We're not proposing a return to old ways. We're asking what those practices make possible now, in the industries and institutions actually shaping the next century.
We are held in Africa. In the Magaliesberg. Working across South Africa and beyond.