ABOUT THE SOCIETY:
The first Tuko Sawa "Society of Harmony Practitioners"(SoHP) was established in Tanzania to spread this transcultural message of unity in diversity, because we believe that "Equality Consciousness" is an ethical and moral prerequisite for a Fairer Future.
Our Society in Tanzania was first created online as a learning group but eventually the members unanimously decided to register an official entity that will allow them to share the concept of harmony in their communities. On the 7th September 2023 the SoHP was inaugurated in the capital Dodoma.
The Society's Patron Mr. Madaraka Nyerere who is the son of Tanzania's Founding Father Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere was joined by members who travelled form all corners of the country to celebrate their #Oneness. Everyone paid for themselves, including a two nights hotel stay in the capital because our Society is not a charitable organisation that seeks funding for our daily activities. We do the best we can, when we can, because #WeCan!
The age of our Society's members ranges between 20-70 years old and we come from all walks of life; farmers, entrepreneurs, students, police, lawyers, doctors, teachers, engineers, lecturers, researchers, housemaids, miners, drivers, pensioners, jobseekers, etc. We are united by the knowledge that we share, empathy and passion to restore reverence for Nature and traditional values of humanity. The founding motto is: #EdenMustReturn! “Eden”is about living in harmony with Nature.
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A SoHP is first and foremost powered by shared values, enthusiasm and community capital. It is the diversity of members that makes the society resilient.
A SoHP works as a Community-of-Practice (CoP); a term coined by Cognitive Anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger when studying apprenticeships as a learning model. The term CoP refers to what was observed in Africa where the community acts as a living curriculum. Once this concept was articulated, many institutions and organisations realised they were practicing it in one form or another.
Our activities fall under Four Main Goals:
1. HUMANITY EDUCATION 2. HEALTH 3. MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT 4. ENVIRONMENT
The common bond however, is the passion to learn and spread the harmony message to as many people as possible to accelerate the process of increasing wellbeing. Goal ( 1 ) in particular seeks to heal the “human story” by rebalancing perception on how we view ourselves and what we consider “progress.” Rather than rely solely on formal education to teach what it means to be human, the Harmony Practitioners are encouraged to incorporate traditional knowledge and values from Elders. This is proving very helpful in grounding the younger generation who are navigating visual media’s glamorisation of material possessions, which feed into negative social comparisons; I am not Okay - he/she/they are okay.
All the goals are infused with ecological awareness to enable better relationships and inner joy for what one already has. We practice deep gratitude for the gift of life by taking good care of ourselves, our families and our communities. The underlying motto is that “the grass is greener where you water it!”
OUR VALUES
OUR HARMONY LESSONS: ONE LESSON PER WEEK
OUR STRUCTURE
Our Society in Tanzania was first created online as a learning group but eventually the members unanimously decided to register an official entity that will allow them to share the concept of harmony in their communities. On the 7th September 2023 the SoHP was inaugurated in the capital Dodoma.
The Society's Patron Mr. Madaraka Nyerere who is the son of Tanzania's Founding Father Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere was joined by members who travelled form all corners of the country to celebrate their #Oneness. Everyone paid for themselves, including a two nights hotel stay in the capital because our Society is not a charitable organisation that seeks funding for our daily activities. We do the best we can, when we can, because #WeCan!
The age of our Society's members ranges between 20-70 years old and we come from all walks of life; farmers, entrepreneurs, students, police, lawyers, doctors, teachers, engineers, lecturers, researchers, housemaids, miners, drivers, pensioners, jobseekers, etc. We are united by the knowledge that we share, empathy and passion to restore reverence for Nature and traditional values of humanity. The founding motto is: #EdenMustReturn! “Eden”is about living in harmony with Nature.
A SoHP is first and foremost powered by shared values, enthusiasm and community capital. It is the diversity of members that makes the society resilient.
A SoHP works as a Community-of-Practice (CoP); a term coined by Cognitive Anthropologists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger when studying apprenticeships as a learning model. The term CoP refers to what was observed in Africa where the community acts as a living curriculum. Once this concept was articulated, many institutions and organisations realised they were practicing it in one form or another.
Our activities fall under Four Main Goals:
1. HUMANITY EDUCATION
2. HEALTH
3. MEANINGFUL EMPLOYMENT
4. ENVIRONMENT
The common bond however, is the passion to learn and spread the harmony message to as many people as possible to accelerate the process of increasing wellbeing. Goal ( 1 ) in particular seeks to heal the “human story” by rebalancing perception on how we view ourselves and what we consider “progress.” Rather than rely solely on formal education to teach what it means to be human, the Harmony Practitioners are encouraged to incorporate traditional knowledge and values from Elders. This is proving very helpful in grounding the younger generation who are navigating visual media’s glamorisation of material possessions, which feed into negative social comparisons; I am not Okay - he/she/they are okay.
All the goals are infused with ecological awareness to enable better relationships and inner joy for what one already has. We practice deep gratitude for the gift of life by taking good care of ourselves, our families and our communities.
The underlying motto is that “the grass is greener where you water it!”
OUR VALUES
OUR HARMONY LESSONS: ONE LESSON PER WEEK
OUR STRUCTURE
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