15 Apr
Welcome to our first edition of 2022. In this issue we discuss the theme “Wounded Healers”. At AYLF, we have an army of close to 100 volunteers. If you add the committees that support our work in the 19 institutions of higher learning, the number rises to 300.
It is this group of frontliners that go out every day to lead and serve as we seek to create a transformed leadership
culture in Africa. But this army faces a glaring reality every day, the reality that “we are a wounded society”.
Our wounds are both external (visible) and internal, continuing to cut deeper by the day. We need healing. Unfortunately, we seem not to run out of ways to hurt ourselves more. Our cultures, biases, individual behavior and
choices and the consequences of poor leadership keep us certain of more wounds.In order for this army of leaders to be relevant, they must help to heal the wounds of the society which they seek to transform. And yet, they are not divorced from this society. They too are carrying wounds and pains of their own.
They have become wounded healers. In this edition we share stories that will shed light on how they are able to heal while they too need to be healed. The stories you read here will challenge you to acknowledge your woundedness but most importantly to use it to heal someone else. We hope that the courage, sacrifice and reward displayed throughout these pages will inspire to start or continue to act as a wounded healer so that you too can find the healing you need.
“ We are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded, it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others”. – Sheila Cassidy
