Te Pūaha Talks has an exciting range of online capability workshops and webinars scheduled for the coming months. This programme of free events, supported by Foundation North, has been designed and curated based on what people working in social impact have told us they want.
Each event is an opportunity to learn from people who are leaders, innovators, and influencers in their areas of expertise. The aim is to help participants build their knowledge and confidence to apply what they learn to their own community organisation or area of practice.
Recordings of the webinars will be available online through Te Pūaha o te Ako, alongside additional resources such as templates and links to related sources of information.
Explore past Te Pūaha Talks recordings and resources on the knowledge hub here.
Haumanu - centring healing in systems change
10am - 12pm Tuesday 25 March
Past trauma - intergenerational, collective, historic and systemic - is held inside individuals, groups, organisations and systems. This trauma has been created and compounded over time by dominance, separation, oppression and extraction. Current systems built on this trauma can be both traumatised and traumatising.
Acknowledging and addressing trauma can help us redesign our systems and organisations. Systems designed from a place of wellbeing, mauri ora and healing will create the conditions for new solutions to intractable problems to emerge.
Our team of associates from the Centre for Social Impact has for several years been creating, prototyping and refining Haumanu, a healing approach to systems change. Haumanu is a Māori word which means to revive, rejuvenate and restore to health. Haumanu blends western knowledge with mātauranga Māori. It takes what the late Professor Angus Macfarlane called “he awa whiria” - a “braided river” approach, combining the strengths of two distinct worldviews as equals.
In this webinar we will take you through why a healing approach to systems change is important. We will outline how Haumanu works and what we have learnt through our pilot programmes. The webinar is designed to help participants from organisations involved in systems change to understand the key concepts of a healing approach, and to help you consider what might be of value to your organisation and your mahi.
Presenters: Louise Marra and Tuihana Ohia supported by Rachael Trotman and Chloe Harwood. Read more about them on the CSI website here.
Creative Communications with Te Taumata Toi-a-Iwi
12pm - 1pm Thursday 27 March
This one-hour online workshop with Te Taumata Toi-a-Iwi, the regional arts trust for Tāmaki Makaurau, will look at how the trust has developed its communications over the last five years.
Te Taumata Toi-a-Iwi was established in 2001 by the Auckland and Manukau Councils to support the Auckland region’s arts, culture and creative sector. Over nearly 20 years the trust supported programmes and initiatives to support the arts and culture of Tāmaki Makaurau. In 2019, the trust rebranded from ART – the Arts Regional Trust, took the te reo name to the trust by Sir Hugh Kawharu when the trust was founded, and launched a new strategy which saw the trust move from supporting individual development and activities through grants, to investing in sector development. This required the trust to build and maintain an understanding of the sector’s current and emerging needs and encourage a strategic and collaborative response to those needs.
Over the last five years, an active communications programme have helped the trust develop relationships with key sector stakeholders that have been critical to the fulfilments of the trust’s kaupapa. This has included supporting key sector advocacy initiatives.
In this webinar, CSI communications associate, Robin Hickman, talks to Te Taumata Creative Catalyst, Jane Yonge, about the trust’s mahi and its general communications and advocacy initiatives.
Click here to read more and to register for the webinar.