OUR PROGRAMMES
KUFUNDA HOSTING
KUFUNDA MEANS LEARNING
At the heart of Kufunda is the art of hosting learning and co-creation. For over 20 years, we’ve been evolving innovative approaches and programs that inspire individuals and communities to co-create around a shared vision and purpose.
Our processes are grounded in appreciation, celebrating the richness of what is, and using that as the foundation for future possibilities.
We offer our expertise to communities, organizations, and networks that are eager to work together in generative, collaborative ways—creating spaces where the collective wisdom and potential can emerge.
our approach
At our core is learning in service of community.
Our work is relational—we cultivate deep relationships with ourselves, the land, and each other.
Through our lived experience, we demonstrate and support communities, organizations, and individuals in learning processes and practices that allow the collective wisdom of the community to emerge in generative and practical ways.
We have witnessed how these practices empower individuals and communities to step into their own agency, take ownership of their destiny and vision, and embrace new ways of being together.
ENGAGED LEARNING
KUFUNDA MEANS LEARNING
COMMUNIVERSITY
We teach community and organisational leaders our processes and approaches for you to apply in your own context.
FACILITATION
We host our programmes and processes in your context, and also tailor specific processes for your facilitation needs.
kufunda programmes
LIVING THE FUTURE NOW
ART OF PARTICIPATORY LEADERSHIP
We offer a participatory approach to working with groups, organizations and community in more interactive, engaging and thus also effective ways. The Art of Participatory Leadership brings the collective wisdom of a group of any size to life. We regularly offer Art of Hosting with a growing network of practitioners and the approach underpins all our work.
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TAILOR MADE PARTICIPATORY OFFERINGS
We offer workshop design, planning and facilitation to organisations, supporting organisations and communities in moving towards more holistic solutions - where people are engaged and committed to what they have been a part of creating. Our processes are inclusive, innovative, participatory, fun, and enabling of collective, actionable outcomes in a relatively short time period.
Tailor Made Participatory Offerings
GO DEEP
GO DEEP
Go Deep is an award winning process-based multi-day game that brings together groups of people in a community to work in deep and transformative ways. People are supported in practical ways to explore themes that affect daily interactions - such as issues of Power, Diversity, Vision and more. Through the Game these deeper issues are explored in generative ways
THE FLOW GAME
We offer the flow game as a tool for individual coaching and team coaching an development. The flow game is a board game to help players (as individuals or teams to find clarity around a specific question, intention or challenge. The Flow Game i powerful tool for creating an interactive reflection, dialogue and action space fo groups, teams and individuals.
THE OASIS GAME
The Oasis Game, is an innovative community engagement process that elicits the dreams of a community. Out of these dreams the community mobilises around one shared dream that can be made manifest in a short amount of time. It is a collaboration between the community, the local authority and local corporates, inviting everyone to step into the initiative and take ownership of a community transformation
THE OASIS
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THE FLOW
GAME
WOMEN ARE MEDICINE
Women are Medicine is a women’s empowerment retreat where we support women to return to the grace, the power and the pride in what it means to be a woman today. Our core assumption is that women are not a 'problem to be solved', but a gift to be embraced, and so we navigate the territory of the many challenges facing women today from a place of discovering and recovering the innate strength and capacity that resides in each one. Women have gone on to discover their own leadership and confidence through being a part of our programme
WOMEN ARE
MEDICINE
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KUFUNDA YOUTH HUB
We regularly host a self-directed Youth Hub at Kufunda to develop leadership, confidence, and capacity among young people to implement practical projects base on their passions and community needs. Skills include carpentry, mechanics, welding, sewing, and more. The hub is a great place for fostering skills development, and entrepreneurship among young Zimbabweans
ORGANIC
FARMING WORKSHOP
Waldorf Teacher Training
MAAIANNE KNUTH
DIRECTOR
Maaianne is an experienced facilitator and designer of group learning and co-creation processes. She is passionate about supporting people in coming together in more authentic and life-affirming ways. Maaianne’s story bridges Europe and Africa in an arc that travels from Copenhagen, where she studied international business, to Zimbabwe, where she co-founded Kufunda. Her work in hosting creative and generative processes, including conscious dance, mindfulness, and time in nature supports individuals in waking to who they are and what they can be within their communities - moving towards a more just and beautiful world.”
LEARNING TO LIVE THE FUTURE TODAY
MEET US AND GET TO KNOW US
As a team we are living our way into our best understanding of what it takes to
create healthy, vibrant community - Ever deepening our insights and practice, and
sharing with communities as we learn.
