I can see clearly now - The kuona process - A teaching strategy for liberation

This article is a beginning dialogue on the kuona process of reaching skill development. This process reaches conceptualization from a cultural, political, spiritual, and liberating perspective, a perspective that is rooted in the African culture. Kuona, a Swahili word, means to perceive beyond what is apparent The kuona process is designed to foster self-reliance and self-determination the purpose of social change in African American participants. When this liberating process is used consciously, it can change a participant's perception of what can and cannot be accomplished in transforming self; others, and institutions. This article focuses on the process of conceptualization from a traditional and a liberating perspective, the formation of the kuona process, facilitating the process, philosophical assumptions of the process, and major components of the process.