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I’ve been sitting on how to write an update on what’s happening in Enkanini, a place where we’ve been active for the past 10 years. Strangely, this is the first year we aren’t going there and it feels like the right decision. It’s a huge contrast as it’s been the favored destination with our InSite teams, we’ve had more movement in terms of social projects with the most potential for real community transformation, and yet, it’s not happening as we hoped.
Read MoreIt's been silent. I haven't written a newsletter since June. I do have a really good reason.
I didn't know what to say.
Here's why:
I wasn't sure if InSite, or other Reckoning initiatives would continue. I wasn't burned out. I hadn't lost a sense of purpose. Here's the thing, I didn't enjoy how things were going. I felt icky inside. Things needed to change but I didn't know what needed to change or how. Have you ever had that experience?
InSite’s 2018 field report provides the reader with an in depth look at what InSite does while in South Africa and some background knowledge on our partners in South Africa.
Read MoreEveryone can participate in aiding the displaced as they seek stability. Get involved today! Students of any age can help, as well as adults. See our short list of things you can do.
29 June, InSite is taking a small team of 10 to Calais, France to volunteer in the refugee warehouse for the weekend. Join Us!
Read MoreYou don’t have to view yourself or others as a racist to own up to having implicit bias’s. Raising your awareness of how you view others is the biggest step in seeing how bias plays a role in how see others and treat others, as individuals and collectively as groups. The good news, this can be changed.
Read MoreStichting Reckoning’s InSite program was acknowledged by the WorldWide Business Review in the 2018 Most Innovative Businesses in the Netherlands with the title of “Most Outstanding Youth Training Workshops”.
Read MoreSee a little of the InSite youth leadership team in action in South Africa. InSite used the IDEO human-centered Design material as we partnered with the #Philipsfoundation installing 10 solar street lights and getting a bakery structure built in the informal settlement of #Enkanini on the edge of Stellenbosch.
Read MoreWhere desire and reality clash. How experiences of empowerment are not as accessible to the very populations aimed at empowering. In South Africa, for most, seeing this movie is a challenge.
Read MoreWhen assumptions cause unintentional harm, how can we learn how to really help one another in ways that demonstrate respect and dignity? How can design tools help us do this?
Read MoreIt's almost a knee-jerk reaction to be annoyed when things don't go smoothly, the wifi isn't connecting, the train is late, too much traffic, but how does that annoyance play out when tragedy is the cause? How can we find another response?
Read MoreDesign tools have had a tremendous impact in the field of social innovation. The Empathy Map has many applications, and here's one example of a leadership program integrating the map as a way to increase empathy between one another and getting closer in designing and creating things that are relevant and useful.
Read MoreGetting real with myself... confessions of a white woman in her implicit bias and how admitting to herself this is present which is the first step in learning how to treat the 'others' in life as people.
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