Practice Foundations is a monthly public sector community of practice hosted online by The Auckland Co-Design Lab and Healthy Families Far North.
Practice Foundations focuses on the opportunities and challenges that exist across the public sector. In our sessions we explore topics, tools and resources that public sector practitioners have told us are the most useful in building practice and tooling them up for implementing complex and ambitious work.
Wednesday 7 May, 9:30-11:00am
Place-based evidence with Dr Ingrid Burkett
Wednesday 4 June, 9:30-11:00am
Te Tokotoru
Wednesday 2 July, 9:30-11:00am
Wednesday 6 August, 9:30-11:00am
Wednesday 3 September, 9:30-11:00am
Wednesday 1 October, 9:30-11:00am
Wednesday 5 November, 9:30-11:00am
Most of our sessions are recorded. You can find the recordings, and any accompanying slide decks, resources and shared links, below.
Hautū Waka
In this session we revisit Hautū Waka, under the expert guidance of Roimata Taniwha-Paoo (Waikato - Maniapoto ki Pirongia).
This session focuses on Te Whiwhinga, a phase within Hautū Waka. In this phase, tohu (signs/signals) are clear and the course has been set to move towards the collective vision. We can see a way forward and are confident in our direction. We know the work that needs to be done.
Roimata supports us to tune in to 2025 and provides us with some practices that can be used in Te Whiwhinga to help us to navigate the coming year.
Whakapiki Mauri
Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora, Mauri Noho, Mauri Mate
This sessions builds on the May 2022 Practice Foundations “What’s the mauri of the system” led by Dickie Humphries.
We have found that deepening our understanding of mauri supports us to work in complex systems like the public sector. Mauri also helps demonstrate the power and importance of how we, as individual kaimahi, show up within systems change work.
This was an experiential session led by Marisa Pene (Te Tau Ihu, Tokelau) and Eruini Hawke (Ngāti Whātua, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Pikiao and Ngāti Maniapoto).