Convening Connections: exploring the Inner (Personal) and Outer(Structural) work of systems change via Early Years systems efforts in Aotearoa

For our April Practice Foundations we did something a little bit different. The session was co-hosted by The Lab, Healthy Families Far North, and Lily Raphael of Vancouver Solutions Lab as part of the international series "Pushing the Boundaries of Public Sector Innovation”.

We connected with folks from Australia, North America, and beyond to explore the personal and structural aspects of systems change, grounded in an example from early years systems transformation efforts in Aotearoa.

Speakers Aimee Hadrup (The Southern Initiative), Tanya Radford (Te Whatu Ora) and Angie Tangere - Ngāti Porou (The Lab) shared their experiences with the Early Years Implementation Learning Platform. The Platform brings together teams from across the public sector in Aotearoa to support a collective focus on the early years. It works to connect “on the ground” learning in community with systems transformation efforts, drawing on indigenous ways of knowing and being in the curation of the relationships, spaces and rhythms needed to do this work.

More information here:
To view the blog posts for the series follow the links below:
Inner and Outer Work of Systems Transformation in the Public Sector
To view the previous sessions in the series follow the links below:
Inner & Outer Work of Systems Transformation #1 - Pushing the Boundaries of Public Sector Innovation
Inner & Outer Work of Systems Transformation #2 - Pushing the Boundaries of Public Sector Innovation