Presentation at the 2020 Ali Center Athletes and Social Change Forum

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2. Lecture Plan
 Introduction and purpose
 Why mentorship and Why do we need ubuntu mentorship?
 What is Ubuntu?
 The Ubuntu as mentorship framework
 EduSport Mentorship Programme
 The 7 principles of the Ubuntu mentorship framework
 Q and A

3. 1. Why mentorship?
2. Why do we need ubuntu mentorship?

4. Mentorship is crucial…my story
…standing on
the shoulders
of Giants…

5. Mentorship is crucial…my story
…standing on
the shoulders
of Giants…

6. Recent studies have shown
 75% of their executives credit their mentors with helping
them reach their current position
 71 percent of Fortune 500 companies surveyed had some
type of corporate mentorship program
 As many as 75% of millennials deem mentoring critical to
their success but only 40%

7. What is Ubuntu?
 “A person is a person through other persons. None of us comes into the
world fully formed. We would not know how to think, or walk, or speak,
or behave as human beings unless we learned it from other human
beings. We need other human beings in order to be human” (Tutu,
2004:25).
 Ubuntu is more consistent with the Asian worldview
 “Me, We”. By which I think he meant we are nothing without our
connection to other people (ubuntu). (Muhammad Ali)

8. EduSport Foundation: The case Study

10. Ubuntu as a transformative mentorship framework
• From an ontological perspective, the functions of a mentor include ‘the
development of trust, confidence and mutual respect between student
and mentor’ (Wadee et al., 2010:33).
• The values that arise from this can easily be aligned to the Ubuntu
worldview of communalism, cohesion, respect, generosity, mutual care,
consensus and tradition (Metz, 2007).
• Ubuntu, as a relationship-centred paradigm, is a particularly well-suited
framework for coaching and coaching training (Geber and Keane, 2013).
• It takes a village to raise a child
• We must caution against romanticising ubuntu as an ideal or a practice.

11. The 7 principles of the Ubuntu mentorship framework
 Consciousness-raising
 Time and commitment
 Respect
 Explicit cultural references
 Inclusion
 Care
 Story

12. Consciousness-raising
Our ways of working are often habitual and culturally
framed; we rarely aware of world around us i.e. the
personal, social and political issues

13. Time and commitment
Time is valued less for getting things done quickly than for
giving of one’s time.

14. This is a core value that needs to be central to
the training and mentoring relationship.
Respect

15. In the mentoring process mentor and
mentee need to make explicit ‘how things
work’ in their worlds.
Explicit worldview

16. Finding ways to explicitly and warmly
include the mentee
Inclusivity

17. This is the underlying modality that
underpins community and
interconnection.
Care

18. Telling stories is a powerful way to learn and
relate, to share and to explore.
Story

19. In conclusion – it won’t happen
without…
 Consciousness-raising
 Time and commitment
 Respect
 Explicit cultural references
 Inclusion
 Care
 Story