Artists and creatives in communitites. 

Community Economies.

What? Community artists embark on projects to build the community. Communtiy economy - Whole commnutiy supports and invests in in the innate potential of creatives and artists. 

How? Ideation hub - ideas placed into an incubator. Facilitated by commnutiy stakeholders, brands, leadership, governance to facilitate regeneration in places and people. When we ask indivudals empwering questions, individuals will find empowering answers. 

Area? Local learning networks, and creative organisations

Community ownership.

Community economy.

Creative and artistic people are empowered to shape the local economy. 

Beautifying spaces. 

Diversifying our culture. 

Cultivating curiosity. 

Money sustainabilty for artists. 

Our resources are embodied by people, places, purpose. 

People - See our team, knowledge and tech below for details on people resources.

Places - We work with places and spaces where untold secrets, wonders and treasures are as old as time itself. We will work in some of the places we call home, that will leave our souls touched and uplifted. Sacred spiritual and cultural sites across the western cape. We work in communtiy spaces rich with knowledge, practice, resilience and love.

Purpose - “Go to the people. Live with them. Learn from them. Love them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. But with the best leaders, when the work is done, the task accomplished, the people will say 'We have done this ourselves.”

We plan to get these by bringing together our rich African and global networks of people, places, and processes, to unlock exponential value for our artists, communities and stakeholders. Through our seasoned capabilities from many fields of spiritual, emotional and community development, we will bring people, places and purpose togehter. 

Core team is Osun Rise - Regenerative Experiences

Osun Rise provides deep connectivity with self, environment and our communities. We facilitate the holistic emergence and abilities of regenerative cultures. Regenerative culture is a culture that is consciously building the capacity of everybody in a particular place to respond and change, and accepts transformation as something that life just '‘does”. It is a journey and on that journey we are willing to live the questions and adapt our solutions.

Octavia Hendricks: CEO - Psychotherapist

CEO of Osun Rise Regenerative Experiences, Octavia Hendricks finds herself collaborating with individuals, corporations, initiatives and projects which wish to bring a more holistic, integrated and empowered approach to life. Involved in the sphere of personal development, facilitating self-development and self-discovery workshops across South Africa, she has been working under the tutelage of various international pioneers and facilitators in the fields of energy and human consciousness, as a mechanism in creating meaning in the world. As a Psychotherapist, Quantum Energy Life Coach, Counsellor, and Naturopath student, she specializes in assisting people in understanding the emotional, psychological, and physical reasons why their bodies produce dis-ease.

Ulrich Nitschke: Global Director - Community Globalist

Ulrich is a professional change maker and provides more than 25 years of leadership experience in several localities and developmental contexts. He worked with and for sustainable transformation in municipalities, served for 20 years in the German Development Cooperation, in non-profit organisations to consultancies in a variety of places around the world, mainly African and middle Eastern countries. He was engaged in societal processes of change, in transforming governance into enhanced humanity and Human Rights approaches. He loves challenges and learning, always keen to move to birds perspective by not losing reality. He is a strong believer and needs daily grounding in spiritual meditation, singing and praying. Deep in his heart he remains a monk and social entrepreneur. His life question is mirrored in Osun Rise company philosophy and ethics: What drives societal change for the betterment for all? How do we make us all better listeners for needs of the other and mother earth?

Kate Ferguson: COO - Regenerative Innovator

Kate is a visionary, social architect and lover of life. Anthropologist turned regenerative cultures catalyst, Kate’s work is rooted in indigenous wisdom, peace-building and ubuntu in action. Kate facilitates participatory planning, co-creative project design and authentic strategy building through a head, heart and hand approach. Kate is a community mediator and youth trainer in peace-building skills. Within the regenerative movement (regeneration = life-giving), Kate’s work lies in the social, cultural and integral design dimensions of raising a world that honours the memory of 7 generations before us and the wellbeing of 7 generations to come. Her passions are circle dialogue, council-style leadership, & deep collaboration in sync with Humanity, Mother Earth and the Great Divine.

Chimene Chetty: Chief Marketing Officer - Change Maker

Chimene identifies herself as an African womanist, solutioneer, and change maker dedicated to the development of community, country and continent. She has a B.A. degree, a post graduate degree in management and a master’s in public policy and development management. Chimene just joined Carnegie Mellon University after three years as an independent consultant during which she has primarily worked on projects related to developing entrepreneurial universities and entrepreneurial ecosystems in parts of Africa. Prior to that she was the director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Wits Business School (WBS) in Johannesburg. She spent many years in the NGO and socio-economic development sector where she specialised in the design, development and implementation of programmes in various fields. Her experience in entrepreneurship started through social entrepreneurship as the regional director of Ashoka Southern Africa. She is committed to developing successful, sustainable, ethical and responsible African entrepreneurs and businesses based on an inclusive growth and a shared value approach.

Our team of stakeholders and collaborators 

Iris Artist Residency (Water Dixon Artist Studio) - A mentorship program that creativily innovates equity and ownership in the art world while unlocking capabilties and potential of up-and-coming artists and designers.

Learning Seeds Network -  (Re)imagining Greater Muizenberg: Nurturing Seeds of Transgressive Learning (Learning Seeds) is a one-year research project, based in Muizenberg, running from October 2021-September 2022. Another word for transgressive is courageous. This project is about finding courageous new ways of seeing, understanding and doing things together. Courageous learning also involves creating space for voices that have been historically under-represented to lead the agenda, shifting some of the historically-dominant approaches and voices from the ‘centre’ of the work. The Learning Seeds Network is a growing network of people from across Greater Muizenberg that was set up as part of this research process. Many members are actively involved in existing local initiatives focused on social justice and learning. Some of the organisations represented include: The New Muizenberg School; Muizenberg Community Garden; Harmony’s Angels Food Kitchen; Muiz Kitchen; Amava Oluntu; Ingcungcu Sunbird Restoration; Fit for Life; Jungle Theatre; Loxion Library, Sozo Foundation, Fynbos life, InMotion studio, and Uvuno Hub. We have formed three research Dream Teams, made up of people within the network, to do collaborative research within their chosen focus areas (Nature, Food & Gardens, Education & Learning, and Creative Voices).

Loxion Lobile Library - ideas and innovation on the move, through our townships and commnuties. Radically including the innate creativity of our children.

WePads - Bleeding with Confidence. This stakeholder centers the girl-child and highlights the potential of the creative communtiy economy when we do.

Seed Phase: Incubation (July 2022)

We will go on a 3-night regenerative immersion, combining transformation and peace: 

- Illuminating and thought-provoking workshops and immersions to share visions and hopes. Reframe challenges into opportunities, as we work and play together to raise the collective Creative Spirit!

- We invite everyone who comes to find his or her life’s question by opening up and listening, turning inward without closing the eyes for too long. We are convinced that we can all contribute to the solution of today’s problems tomorrow, if we stay with ourselves, discover the diversity as the chance and gather our strength for the great transformation.

- We create harmony of Heart, Head (mind) and Hands. The Triple-H Approach. We enable us to find the Power of Oneness within ourselves and our purpose together.
Together we surrender to the natural forces of humanity and nature. We experience each day life in structured processes of body, mind and soul.

- A curated interwoven group experience which will unpack a myriad of topics that are relevant to our lives and the evolution of our perceived roles in society. We lovingly dare, to collectively lean into topics of spiritual rightness, anger, racism, relationships, healing of self and other aspects you want to explore, all held within the tapestry of freedom and celebration of change.

Sapling Phase: Nurture (August 2022)

What happens when we leave the womb? And when our seed has sprouted? We go to the nursery to be nourished.

We will nourish the seed through:

- Co-creative project design processes

- Culture shaping opportunities

- Peacebuilding through conflict faciltatino training

- High performance one-on-one life optimization coaching 

Tree Phase: Plant (September 2022 - South African Spring)

~ By gathering the collective emotional intelligence of the group and the project creations from Sapling phase, we are able to find ways to redesign business processes to accommodate as many needs as possible. And also to find the necessary compromises that take into account the three key pillars: Business, Ecology & People.

~ Compassionate and connected dialogue is critical. We draw on indigenous wisdom and native cultures, as well as modern understanding of neuroscience. The Way of Council — a practice of learning to listen and speak from the heart in a circle to explore questions together.

~ We develop literacy in systemic thinking and interacting patterns in the world, in the people who work for and with our communities and stakehoolders.

~ We invite our teams to spend time alone in nature, deep connection to wild nature gives us the answers that transforms consciousness.

This is a 'let ideas live' movement. 

This is about equity and community owenrship. 

This is about unlocking the creative potential within people and communities which will naturally shift the spheres of un-ending education in our people. 

Seed Phase will be at chosen sacred sites across the Western Cape.

Sapling and Tree Phases will be in Muizenberg, Vrygrond and Bokaap communties - emerging urban eco-villages.

Our knowledge and technology is once again embodied within people, places, purpose. 

For example: 

Osun Rise brings the knowledge and tech means to faciltate a project of this nature. 

Iris Artist Residency (Water Dixon Studio) brings the production, sales, design, galleries, art and design world capabilties to build and innovate those aspects of creative community economies. 

Learning Seeds Network brings the justice, equity, courage and the power of the poeople that comes with building netowrks of learning and action. 

Loxion Library and WePads bring very real products and services that can be leveraged and creatively innovated to form community economies. 

And more.

Our economic plan to sustain this project is embodied in our Iconic Impactors & Change Makers Regenerative Experience.

We strategically work with those who are Improving people and places by sharing and celebrating accomplishments, recognising those who go “above and beyond.”

We host impactors of transformation, influencers, administrators of change, political figures and, social entrepreneurs that foster solutions for actual challenges, and crises. By accompanying these teams in transformation, and facilitating comprehensive leadership development with impactors, start-ups and companies, we will breath new life into the "Let ideas live" movement!

It is through this movement that the next steps of this project will emerge.