Snapshot 2018

We spent 2018 celebrating ten years of supporting community-led change in Aotearoa. Looking back to look forward is such a rewarding and insightful process. As a result we’ve got lots to share. Enjoy this short illustration that focuses on just seven highlights from a very rewarding year!
Snapshot 2018

November 2018 newsletter

Here’s our latest newsletter!

• In our third and final blog in the 10 year anniversary series, we discuss social innovation and the future of community change.
• We have a new blog in which we talk to Jen Margaret about the importance of applying a Te Tiriti lens to our work and our lives.
• Related to this, we also have some really useful Te Reo resources to share with you.
• In our latest webinar yet we reflect on 25 years of collective wisdom in community change along with the Tamarack Institute. Not to be missed!
• We’ve also released our joint paper, with Tamarack, entitled Reflections on Community Change. Read about our reflections on the past decade and our thoughts on the future.
• Finally, we have a bunch of new community stories! Get inspired by reading about what communities around Aotearoa are getting up to!

Read the full newsletter here.

Our September newsletter

This past month has been busy, so we have a packed newsletter for you!

Tamariki at Mataura Primary School

Highlights include:

• In celebration of our ten year anniversary, we have published part one of a new blog series about the changes we’ve seen over the years and what we need to think about going forward.
• We have a webinar coming up that we’re co-hosting with the Tamarack Institute in Canada.
• In November, we are running an interactive workshop designed for government officials, which focuses on Communities and Policy.
• We have some brand new Te Reo resources to share.
• Our latest community story features Mataura, in Southland. This inspirational little town has completely transformed itself in the last decade. It’s a great read.
• Finally, we’ve included a link to our revised principles, in case you missed them last time.

Check out the full newsletter here.

Auckland Symposium 2018

Join us to engage with 13 people from different places and perspectives celebrating how CLD works for them in Tamaki Makaurau.
There will also be a panel discussion, group workshopping and networking.

You will leave feeling revived and replenished, with new connections, approaches and tools that work to use in your own communities.

We look forward to seeing you there!

For more details, read the Auckland Symposium 2018 flyer.

To register, email us.

Our revised CLD principles

As part of Inspiring Communities’ journey, we’ve been refining our Community-led Development (CLD) principles to make them simpler, more accessible and more responsive to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and Māori world views.

Through this process we crafted a te reo māori term for CLD – Te Whakawhanake ā-Hapori. This reflects the weaving and inter-relationships of everyone contributing to whenua/place.

While we know that these CLD principles will continue to evolve, we’re excited to have begun the journey with this framework. We’d like to acknowledge all those involved for their mahi and their support in producing this document.

It’s with great pleasure that we introduce our revised CLD framework: Te Whakawhanake ā-Hapori ki Aotearoa. Community-led Development in Aotearoa.

We hope that you will use it and share it with your networks. We look forward to any thoughts or comments you may have.

It’s with great pleasure that we introduce our revised community-led development principles document: Te Whakawhanake ā-Hapori ki Aotearoa.

Our August newsletter

Have you read our latest newsletter?
In this edition:

• We have lots of content from our Child Rich Communities project: a new blog, some new webinars and some workshops.
• Read about the awesome work a Northern Coromandel rural community is doing to revitalise their region.
• We have more CLD skills workshops coming up. Check out the list of dates below.
• Jim Diers is visiting New Zealand this month and he’s written a new blog!
• The Social Service Providers of Aotearoa conference: Whakamana is taking place in October.

Here’s the link.

Our July newsletter

For all the latest news and information from the team, including a blog from Deloitte, the report from the Weaving our Strengths Forum, a visit from Jim Diers, more workshop dates, leadership programmes and a wee survey on our website, click here.
 

Our June newsletter

Here’s Inspiring Communities’ June 2018 newsletter, just in case you missed it! All the latest news here.

Weaving our Strengths forum report

We thought you’d be interested in our report from the Weaving our Strengths forum, which we curated, on 24th May 2018, working alongside co-hosts the J R McKenzie Trust and the Office of the Children’s Commissioner.
The J R McKenzie Trust and the Office of the Children’s Commissioner invited a range of stakeholders from the children’s sector, government, philanthropic sector, service providers, community groups and those with lived experiences to a one-day hui in Wellington, on reducing child poverty and improving child wellbeing. The day was managed and curated by Inspiring Communities. The day aimed to:

• strengthen relationships and encourage people to work together to identify solutions and opportunities to overcome what causes and perpetuates child poverty
• create an environment to better understand a range of experiences and perspectives of child poverty and child wellbeing, and
• inform work on child poverty reduction and the development of the Child Wellbeing Strategy, and encourage participants to engage in the consultation.

See the full report here.

See illustrations and photos from the day here.

Jim Diers available to come to Aotearoa

Jim Diers is available to come back to Aotearoa New Zealand from 11^th – 18^th August.  Always popular, Jim can run workshops, masterclasses or sessions with your team. Let us know if you’d like to host him at your place!
For more details: Jim Diers flyer_Aug 2018.