In this episode I chat with Wilhelm Verwoerd, a leading researcher in the field of reconciliation, apology and more recently, “white work” in SA. He was a researcher in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and has since dedicated his life to exploring and facilitating forgiveness, apology and reconciliation.
Wilhelm is also the grandson of Hendrik Verwoerd, who is widely regarded as the architect of apartheid. He experienced this very unique incarnation of being born into a family at the political, social and spiritual center of apartheid, and then he managed to transcend the limitations of his cultural conditioning to become a leader in the field of reconciliation. For me, he provides us with a hopeful example of what white people in SA can do to finally start healing our own trauma as well as all the trauma we’ve caused with our heritage of slavery, colonialism and most recently, apartheid.
Links to some of Wilhelm’s work:
Research Papers
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361301084_Diagnosing_and_dismantling_South_African_whiteness_'white_work'_in_the_Dutch_Reformed_Church
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344199861_Black_Christ_and_Cross-Roads_Jesus_for_white_South_African_Christians
Books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/285005.Wilhelm_Verwoerd
Learn more about my work:
https://www.odendaalesterhuyse.com/
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In this episode I chat with Wilhelm Verwoerd, a leading researcher in the field of reconciliation, apology and more recently, “white work” in SA. He was a researcher in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and has since dedicated his life to exploring and facilitating forgiveness, apology and reconciliation.
Wilhelm is also the grandson of Hendrik Verwoerd, who is widely regarded as the architect of apartheid. He experienced this very unique incarnation of being born into a family at the political, social and spiritual center of apartheid, and then he managed to transcend the limitations of his cultural conditioning to become a leader in the field of reconciliation. For me, he provides us with a hopeful example of what white people in SA can do to finally start healing our own trauma as well as all the trauma we’ve caused with our heritage of slavery, colonialism and most recently, apartheid.
Links to some of Wilhelm’s work:
Research Papers
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361301084_Diagnosing_and_dismantling_South_African_whiteness_'white_work'_in_the_Dutch_Reformed_Church
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344199861_Black_Christ_and_Cross-Roads_Jesus_for_white_South_African_Christians
Books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/285005.Wilhelm_Verwoerd
Learn more about my work:
https://www.odendaalesterhuyse.com/
Episode 1 | Part 2 || Can I say "African Spirituality"?
Both Are True
19 minutes 47 seconds
3 years ago
Episode 1 | Part 2 || Can I say "African Spirituality"?
I tend to draw hard lines between different spiritual paradigms. In this short excerpt, Vuyiswa helps me see that although there are big differences, she’s learning to embrace christianity and work with what religion can offer her spiritual practice. This conversation has helped me think a bit more holistically about my own spiritual practice and motivated me to draw from different worldviews to support my healing.
Both Are True
In this episode I chat with Wilhelm Verwoerd, a leading researcher in the field of reconciliation, apology and more recently, “white work” in SA. He was a researcher in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and has since dedicated his life to exploring and facilitating forgiveness, apology and reconciliation.
Wilhelm is also the grandson of Hendrik Verwoerd, who is widely regarded as the architect of apartheid. He experienced this very unique incarnation of being born into a family at the political, social and spiritual center of apartheid, and then he managed to transcend the limitations of his cultural conditioning to become a leader in the field of reconciliation. For me, he provides us with a hopeful example of what white people in SA can do to finally start healing our own trauma as well as all the trauma we’ve caused with our heritage of slavery, colonialism and most recently, apartheid.
Links to some of Wilhelm’s work:
Research Papers
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361301084_Diagnosing_and_dismantling_South_African_whiteness_'white_work'_in_the_Dutch_Reformed_Church
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344199861_Black_Christ_and_Cross-Roads_Jesus_for_white_South_African_Christians
Books
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/285005.Wilhelm_Verwoerd
Learn more about my work:
https://www.odendaalesterhuyse.com/
