Re-Membering Our Shared Future
To Speak from the Stars
In Partnership with OASA & The Anthroposophical Societies in South Africa
Looking back on the gathering, what remains is less a collection of presentations or discussions and more a feeling. A feeling that beneath the many differences in language, culture, biography, and spiritual orientation, there is a genuine longing to find one another again.
Throughout the days together, moments arose that could not have been planned. People listened deeply. Stories met stories. Questions that have often been carried alone were spoken into a shared space. Something of trust began to grow, not through agreement, but through a willingness to stay with what is uncertain and unfinished.
Many participants spoke of the importance of bringing different streams of wisdom into conversation. Rather than seeking to resolve differences, the gathering created conditions in which they could be held with curiosity and respect. In this way, new relationships became possible between people, between traditions, and perhaps also between the past and what is seeking to emerge in the future.
What became increasingly clear is that re-membering is not simply an act of remembrance. It is the work of bringing together what has become separated. The gathering offered glimpses of what can arise when people come together in this spirit. Not answers, but relationships. Not conclusions, but beginnings.
As we carry the experience forward, the invitation remains to continue the work where we are, in our communities, our conversations, and our daily lives, trusting that even small acts of attention and connection may contribute to a future that is more human, more truthful, and more alive.
Online Gathering Schedule
As a way of carrying this work forward and tending the threads that were woven during the gathering, OASA will host monthly online gatherings on Zoom. These will take place on the last Wednesday of each month. The upcoming dates for 2026 are:
- June 24
- July 29
- August 26
- September 30
- October 28
- November 25
Please email rememberingoursharedfuture@gmail.com for the Zoom link.
Contributors
This gathering is enriched by the voices and experiences of those who have walked diverse paths of practice, research, and service. Each speaker brings a unique perspective, not as an expert standing apart, but as a fellow traveller contributing to the circle of exchange.
Below you can meet the individuals who will help carry and deepen the conversations we are entering into together.
Orland Bishop
Originally from Guyana, South America, Orland Bishop immigrated to Los Angeles by way of Brooklyn as a teenager. A community organizer, philosopher, healer and teacher, Orland Bishop works within a global social network of individuals and agencies engaged with the Ecology of Nature and Human Consciousness within the realms of life and death. His work in healing and human development is framed by an extensive study of medicine, psychology, naturopathy, phenomenology and indigenous cosmologies, primarily those of South and West Africa.
He is the Co-Founder of Shade Tree Multicultural Foundation, a Los Angeles-based organization dedicated to creating agreements of the heart for societal development where he focuses on mentoring youth and fostering social change through spiritual practices. Orland aims his work toward the development of consciousness and healing of cultures. His approach often involves bridging ancestral wisdom with visions of the future. He is the author of The Seventh Shrine: Heart Cognitions on the African Spiritual Journey.
Maaianne Knuth
Maaianne is the co-founder of Kufunda Learning Village, a learning center and eco-village in Zimbabwe dedicated to cultivating locally rooted pathways to community self-reliance. At Kufunda, communities engage their own imagination, collaboration, and cultural wisdom to meet challenges in education, health, and land stewardship.
Together with villagers from across Zimbabwe, Kufunda has founded a Waldorf-inspired school serving over 140 children from surrounding communities, where learning with head, heart, and hands is foundational. It has deepened into biodynamic farming, working alongside local farmers to restore relationships with the soil. It has also hosted transformative programs for women, men, and youth—nurturing leadership, healing, and community resilience. At the heart of it all is a living commitment to learning our way into the futures we long for. Maaianne is also a teacher of Movement Medicine, a conscious dance practice that supports people in becoming more whole in service of a more just and beautiful world.
She holds a master’s degree in International Business and Finance from the Copenhagen Business School. Early in her journey, she became the first female president of AIESEC International, a global student organization spanning 87 countries. She later co-founded Pioneers of Change, a global learning community dedicated to equipping young changemakers with the courage, capacities, and relationships to step forward with purpose. She now lives between Zimbabwe and Cape Town having followed her children’s Waldorf education to the Cape.
Makhosi VulaMasango Isis Nozipho Mutwa
Doctor of Traditional Healing
Founder: The Credo Mutwa Foundation
Founder: The Credo Mutwa Indigenous Healing Institute
Makhosi VulaMasango Isis Nozipho Mutwa is a Doctor of African Traditional Healing and founder of the Credo Mutwa Foundation and the Credo Mutwa Indigenous Healing Institute. As a Gobela (trainer), she consults, trains, and develops traditional healers from across the world, including Germany and the USA.
Before accepting her calling as a Sangoma, she worked for many years as a Social Worker and Community Activist, and holds a Social Work qualification from the North-West University.
Makhosi is one of seven children of iSanusi uBaba Credo Mutwa and his Gobela wife, Mama Cecilia Mutwa. Raised under their guidance, she inherited a strong legacy of healing, traditional knowledge, and African cultural traditions. Her father is widely revered as an Imboni (Divine Seer), and his work remains a living heritage reflecting Africa’s original wisdom.
Through the Credo Mutwa Indigenous Healing Institute, Makhosi advances indigenous healing, research, and the continuation of this lineage, while strengthening unity within African Indigenous Spirituality locally and internationally.
Her work also focuses on community development and the protection of cultural and intellectual property within traditional practices. In 2025, she was awarded Best Traditional Healer/Doctor at the UMHLABA UHLANGENE Traditional Healer Awards.
Ezra Sullivan
Ezra Sullivan is based at Threefold Educational Foundation in Chestnut Ridge, New York, where he works in spiritual research, social entrepreneurship, and organizational consulting.
Born in Los Angeles, he spent his early adult years exploring peasant wisdom and the intentional community movement across South America and the Pacific Northwest, including co-directing Sunfield Biodynamic Farm and Waldorf School in Washington State for six years.
After studying at the Goetheanum in Switzerland in 2022, Ezra now focuses on renewing the meaning, legibility, and relevancy of the Anthroposophical Movement.
Joan Sleigh
Born and raised in a Camphill community in South Africa, Joan is the Project Leader of the World Social Initiative Forum (WSIF), a global forum (network) of individuals, NGOs and institutions focussing on research and practice in questions of personal development, social change and human dignity. Joan has a background in Waldorf Education, as pupil, class teacher and teacher trainer in Cape Town, and served as a member of the Executive Council of the General Anthroposophical Society in Dornach for 7 years. She returned to Cape Town, studied an Executive MBA and graduated in leadership research and development. Alongside the WSIF, Joan currently consults in teacher education, adult self-development and authentic leadership practices.
Rutendo L Ngara
Rutendo Lerato Ngara is an independent transdisciplinary scholar and Indigenous Knowledge Systems practitioner from Southern Africa whose work bridges science, healing, Indigenous cosmology, and ancestral wisdom.
Initiated in multiple African traditions, she integrates academic degrees in electrical and biomedical engineering with experience spanning clinical engineering, healthcare technology management, socio-economic development, leadership, martial arts, and fashion design.
Her transdisciplinary focus centres on bridging Western and Indigenous paradigms - particularly between medical knowledge systems, the economy, the environment, gender, and education. Moving fluidly between these worlds, her pedagogies are relational - rooted in the intelligence of land, river, ritual, and rhythm.
As a speaker, thinker, and systems weaver, Rutendo advances coherence, interconnectedness, and regenerative futures shaped by memory, reverence, and return.
Janet Manoni
Janet Manoni is an anthroposophist and a committee member of the All African Anthroposophical Training (AAAT). With 20 years of experience and skills in Sales and Marketing, Media and Communication, Human Resources, leadership, management of vulnerable children, and advocacy work for childhood cancer, spina bifida, hydrocephalus, and other birth defects, she brings a diverse set of expertise to her endeavours. Janet is also a Political Analyst and Children's Health Activist.
As the founder of Mwanangu Development Tanzania, a locally registered NGO in Tanzania, Janet is dedicated to supporting poor and vulnerable children with cancer and birth defects. The organisation aims to facilitate their access to quality medical treatment, care, and education through Waldorf principles. Janet holds a Masters degree from the University of Pesoa in Portugal, hosted by the Open University of Tanzania, where she is undertaking studies in International Cooperation and Development. Additionally, she is training to become a Waldorf Kindergarten teacher.
Janet's overarching aspiration is to advocate for equal access to education and quality clinical and non-clinical medical services for all children in the Global South.
Sue Davidoff
Sue works out of The Proteus Initiative, an organisation dedicated to an ecological vision of social life, engaged in practices, processes and methods that approach social situations with an enlivened and organic way of thinking.
Edgard Gouveia Jr
Edgard Gouveia Jr never tires of putting people to play. Architect and Urbanist and Post Graduate in Cooperative Games, he dedicates his career to mobilize children, youth and adults by designing and applying virtual games, scavenger hunts and collective actions that lead to small community revolutions. He is the president of Epic Journey, a company that promotes the regenerative communities in organizations such as companies, schools and NGOs. Co-founder of LiveLab hat specifically acts with the youth leading regeneration in their own communities, highlighting Jornada X and Primavera X
Ashoka, Berkana Exchange and TRIP Transformers Fellow, Professor of Post-graduation Cooperative Games Pedagogy at YIP, MSLS SWEDEN, Knowmads in the Netherlands and Gaia Training in Brazil. He is co-founder or partner of other organizations and programs such as Projeto Cooperação, Elos Institute, Warriors Without Weapons Program and the Oasis Game.
Lecturer in several TEDx and international consultants in countries in Europe, North America and Asia where he applies social technologies such as Cooperative Games, World Cafe, Open Space, Circular Dances, Nonviolent Communication and Jornada X. He is the creator of Jornada X, an online scavenger hunt that challenges children and young people in real-world tasks and aims to engage 2 billion people to restore balance in the Biosphere. He believes that changing the world can be fast, fun and without putting your hand in your pocket.
Dr. Nkosenathi Koela
Dr. Nkosenathi E. Koela is a South African scholar, sound artist, and an initiated Gqirha- healer whose work explores the intersection of sound therapy, technology, and cultural practice. Through his innovative sound art practice, Koela investigates how vibrations, both technological and organic, can be harnessed to create new cultural and ritual archives. He is deeply engaged with the ecologies of healing, aiming to rediscover and reimagine traditional healing practices within contemporary contexts by integrating sound as a transformative tool.
His artistic and academic pursuits challenge conventional notions of sound, extending beyond music and auditory experiences to encompass the healing potential embedded in frequencies, rhythms, and vibrations. Koela's work sits at the crossroads of science, spirituality, and social change, positioning sound as a key element in creating new forms of cultural resonance and collective healing.more on his website umnombo-institute.com more on him
Gershan Lombard
Gershan was born in Ceres and grew up in Citrusdal, with his Ancestry firmly rooted in Khoi and San lineages.
His mix of Modern and Ancient sound waves produces enchanting rhythmic forms that share stories and messages from one of the oldest tribes on Earth.
His offerings are channelings of ancient messages unearthed in modern times to inspire his audience to remember their own true nature.
He uses Sound and Story as a modality for Healing, having spent many years travelling the world performing. Deepening into his Shamanic journey he realized that he needed to take Music further and share it in Ceremonial settings.
The Sound of the Indigenous Bow calls on a deep Ancestral knowing that is available to us all.
Anne-Lise Bure
Khalil Rossouw