Leading For Humanity

OUR Programmes

LEADING FOR HUMANITY

The Leading for Humanity programme nurtures, supports, and trains aspiring leaders towards values-based, inclusive, and humane decisions and actions towards social healing and change.

Programmes

Leadership Programme

The immersive leadership programme brings together a diverse group of young people across sectors committed to demonstrating leadership in the footsteps of Desmond and Leah Tutu.

The residential programme with online engagements is an immersive journey of recurring themes based around courageous conversations, peer-to-peer exchange, storytelling, personal reflection, and access to an eco-system of thought leaders. It is rooted in universal humanity while encouraging mindfulness. The basic premise of the programme is that to be a leader able to work for the good of all of humanity, you must engage in the work of self-repair for societal repair.

29 April 2023

Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation Welcomes Its First 2023 Cohort

5 March 2024

2024 Leading for Humanity Cohort: A Catalyst for Global Change

Programmes

Courageous Leadership Course

The Tutu Courageous Leadership Course focuses on courageous leadership as ordinary individuals nurturing the qualities needed to take brave action to heal themselves and society, and inspiring others to do the same. Each lesson highlights a range of methods of engagement that can nurture healing, renew social connection, resolve conflict, facilitate positive action, and hold power to account peacefully.

The primary target audience in South Africa is aged 15-35 years, but the content has been framed for a broader international audience.

Programmes

TUTUtalks

The TUTUtalks provides a storytelling platform for young leaders across the African continent who embody the values and ethics of Archbishop Tutu. Leaders share their compelling stories and discuss what ethical leadership in the African context looks like and how they are putting that into practice. Showcasing their journey, providing an African perspective and passing it on to younger leaders is vital in tackling the discourse and narrative of what makes the leadership opportunity within Africa a realistic and representative one.

Learning from Legacy

Through using the platform of the Truth to Power exhibition, we engage a wide range of audiences in learning about the story and impact of Archbishop Desmond and Mrs Leah Tutu.

We bring together diverse groups of leaders from across society to do the
work of self-repair for societal repair – by exploring the values of compassion, ubuntu, forgiveness, courage, and justice.

Leading for Humanity

This programme builds a dynamic connection between the internal work we need to do as human beings and our contribution to reshaping our societies. We use in-person and online tools to grow diverse circles of courage around the world – a network committed to justice, equality, healing, and our shared humanity.

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Advocacy for Societal Healing

At the heart of our work is the mission to extend Archbishop Tutu’s commitment to societal healing, so powerfully demonstrated through chairing the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Advocacy for Societal Healing

Through this work we engage in:
• Reconciliation, through which we keep trying to find each other across divides;
• Reparation, through which we collectively take action against injustice and oppression; and
• Reimagination, through which we reimagine who we can be together as a society.
We do this through courageous conversations, healing methodologies, and deep dialogue work to strengthen democracy, tackle violence and conflict, and build our shared humanity.

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Learning from Legacy

Through using the platform of the Truth to Power exhibition, we engage a wide range of audiences in learning about the story and impact of Archbishop Desmond and Mrs Leah Tutu.

LEARNING FROM LEGACY

Learning from Legacy

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We serve thousands of school learners to engage with values of leadership, principles of democracy, and the healing work needed by our society. We engage young children with the imaginative stories inspired by Tutu’s own children’s books. And we reach the broader public in programmes and efforts to tell and share stories of hope and courage in South Africa, and the world.