Practice Foundations 2023
Practice Foundations is a monthly public sector community of practice event hosted online by the Auckland Co-design Lab in collaboration. We have a shared interest in promoting and prioritising ethical whānau-centred and led design and innovation practice and the active involvement of community, families, whānau, aiga and rangatahi in wellbeing, design, decision-making and leadership. Write to aucklandcodesignlab@aklc.govt.nz to be added to the mailing list, or ask to be removed.
Navigating Te Ao Hurihuri with Karl Wixon
‘Te Ao Hurihuri’ seems a fitting theme for 2023, it describes an ever-turning world, a world where the only constant is change. This interactive session asks; “as co-design agents for transformative change, how do you remain a koha (gift) and not be seen as a hōhā (annoyance)?”
There is no question 2023 has been hard for many, a year where ‘once in a hundred years’ events seem to be a weekly occurrence, a year where societal pressures are at boiling point and people and systems are at breaking point.
Perhaps more than ever the need for fresh thinking, new approaches and foundational change is evident, yet in this climate of constant change and a constantly changing climate, change is becoming a source of anxiety and enemy of stability – something to be resisted not embraced.
This session explores how we can navigate these challenges and the role tikanga me mātauranga Māori provides as guidance.
This wānanga explores these pātai:
• What are the strategies that you use to navigate change?
• What are the points of stability, safety, continuity that serve you and your mahi?
• How do you identify and involve points of influence that are part of your change ecosystem?
Te Tokotoru - Reorienting towards healing and strengthening to better support rangatahi and their whānau with Kimi Tangaere
In this session Kimi shared insights from her use of these models, particularly around healing and strengthening. This session is an opportunity to learn about these models and apply them in your practice, to better support rangatahi and their whaanau, as well as lifting these insights in a collective effort towards meaningful, whanau led, systems change.
Kimi Tangaere is of Ngaati Porou/Paakehaa decent and is part of the Evidence and Insights team embracing Te Tokotoru and the Ecology of Wellbeing at the South Auckland Social Wellbeing Board. Born and raised in South Auckland, Kimi and regularly bossed around by her older sister, has an academic background in Psychology and Population health, and hopes to pay her student loan off by 2075. Mostly importantly, Kimi is a proud Māmā to her darlings, Kiwa and Akesa.
This session is a build on last year’s Te Tokotoru session that you can catch here!
If you’d prefer to read rather than watch – click here for the Te Tokotoru framework on one of our previous innovation briefs 😊
Whanaungatanga Model of Funding with Maraea Teepa Ngai Tuhoe
Nested inside of Oranga Tamariki, Tākai is a community-led movement to support whānau with a vision of ‘kia matua rautia - a thriving village raising children together’.
In this session Maraea Teepa (Ngai Tuhoe), Manager, Voices of Whānau and Community shares Tākai’s journey towards a developing fit-for-purpose and values-led approach to investing into communities for intergenerational wellbeing.
We will explore and wānanga around the practices that are emerging as important to making a shift towards relational commissioning, and putting into practice the all of government Social Sector Commissioning approach. Lessons from scaling the Whanaungatanga Model of Funding approach into another agency and emerging findings from interviews with organisations on the other side of the commissioning relationship will also be shared.
Restorative systems change – Haumanu framework and process with Louise Marra, Tuihana Ohia and Rachael Trotman.
This session explores the role collective and intergenerational trauma plays in keeping our systems and humanity stuck. We share an approach that works to restore the past and seeks to create from a place of mauri ora, to create true and lasting change. This is vital in Aotearoa NZ to heal our collective colonisation trauma and create new futures.
Haumanu is a framework and process for doing just that. We have been prototyping the approach here and overseas to refine how to centre healing and restoration in systems change within organisations and systems. We believe organisations need to become trauma informed and grow capacities to work in restorative ways.
This session was being presented by Louise Marra, Tuihana Ohia and Rachael Trotman.
Tangata Whenua, Tangata Moana, Tangata Tiriti and the Vā space with Shane Ta’ala Tangata
Nau mai haere mai to this Practice Foundations Session Tangata Whenua, Tangata Moana, Tangata Tiriti and the Vā space with Shane Ta’ala, Principal Design Advisor Māori, within Insights and Statistics at Statistics NZ. As a thought leader within the organisation, his role is to advance iwi-Māori data aspirations through data system architecture design that enables a mutuality between Te Ao Pakeha and Te Ao Māori through Te Tiriti o Waitangi.
Prior to his work at Statistics NZ, Shane held various roles with the Auckland Council, working in Operations Division (delivery), Governance Division (decision making) and finally, the Chief Planning Office (strategy, planning and policy development). Previously Shane has worked in both the public and private sectors in NZ and the United States. His broad experience has been in the areas of community and economic development, public policy and technology development in the US Defence industry through the Cedar Band of Paiutes (Tribal Reservation Corporation).
As a Samoan, he is drawn towards and inspired by Te Ao Māori / Te Ao Marama, his Aiga, and his whānau of the Awa (Ngā Paerangi and Ngāti Hineoneone) who have awhied him throughout his life to work in a way that serves Māoridom and honours the origins of Tangata Whenua and Tangata Moana. This has been a large part of his passion and focus throughout his time at the Auckland Council and with Central Government.
iwi-led systems change with Eruera Tarena
Eruera Tarena who is the Kaiwhakatere – Executive Director for Tokona te Raki: Māori Future Makers, an iwi-led social innovation lab housed under the mana of Ngāi Tahu. Tokona te Raki uses social innovation to achieve equity in education, employment, and income for all Māori in the Ngāi Tahu takiwā, and beyond. They are unweaving broken systems, imagining new horizons, driving systemic change, and empowering rangatahi Māori to lead long-term structural change to address challenges at their root cause. Eruera shared insights and learnings from Tokona’s approach to iwi-led systems change and how they are growing indigenous people, practices and tools for long-term transformation.
Hautū waka
Nau mai haere mai to this session of Practice Foundations where we used Hautū Waka to help us to navigate ourselves forward in complex systems. Hautū Waka is a navigational framework rooted in mātauranga Māori and a tool for navigating the complexity of systems to build intergenerational equity and wellbeing.
The Hautū Waka framework has been developed by Roimata and Ayla Hoeta, guided by Matua Rereata Makiha. Roimata Taniwha-Paoo took us for a pipi dive into the practices and tools of Hautū Waka. This session builds on last years