Rourou Conversations

Leadership Lab's Dr Judy Bruce and Dr Chris Jansen hosted this webinar on 7 May 2024. Judy and Chris present an introduction to systems thinking and systems change.

This series is a Leadership Lab Rourou initiative which hosts spaces to listen to contemporary voices, to collaborate with others, and to address gnarly issues. Rourou amplifies marginalised voices for advocacy and to provoke system change.

Erica and Kath are back to explore allyship and how it weaves with intersectionality and self-awareness, to advocate with others and provoke systems change. We talk about allyship as a non-linear process, a lifelong journey, an active practice requiring constant self-reflection as well as a collective action for a common purpose for positive impact. As allies, how do we open doors for others who can’t do so themselves or how do we redesign the doors with them so that they can do it on their own?

Atarau and Wikitoria share the different threads of who they are, how they are woven together like Wiki’s mum’s raranga. Both agree that the more people we bring on the journey of exploring our intersectionality and owning our whole stories, the more we can create systems change. They share their lived experiences of navigating Pākehā spaces as Māori, the impact of allyship, drawing resilience from whakapapa and whenua, and differing approaches to systems change - from grassroots to governance.

Cooper (ia/they/them) is transmasculine, non-binary, neurodiverse and Pākehā. They are an activist, an equity and diversity advocate and cat lover. In our kōrero, we explore the whakapapa of intersectionality, harnessing the power of our strengths and our intersecting identities, managing energy, the importance of self-awareness and the role of holding space for courageous conversations in provoking and catalysing systems change.

Amanda lives ‘in the grey’, at the intersections of her Māori and Pākehā identities. While she sees the beauty of both, it can also be paralysing. Erica is Chinese, a woman and neurodivergent. She shares how moving to post-quake Ōtautahi Christchurch created a non-linear pathway for her to be reborn. We talk about spirit animals, how we all grapple with multiple identities, the two sides of intersectionality and believing in and leveraging our superpowers to provoke systems change together.

Kath is a mum, a wāhine, a social work educator and a social justice advocate who identifies as Tangata Tiriti. Judith is a social worker having recently finished her studies, as well as a māmā, a wāhine, a friend and an ally to as many as she can. She shares how her lived experience as a care experienced person is at the heart of her advocacy. We talk about leading with love, relationships, emotions in the workplace, intersectionality, systems change and allyship in our kōrero.

Conscious Catalysts is a series of kōrero to share stories of people who are living and learning intentionally so that they might provoke and catalyse systems change. The series shares the lived experiences of LinC’s Te Whāriki team members, intersectional leaders exploring and activating the intersections of their identity to provoke systems change. It has been developed as a collaboration between Leadership Lab’s Rourou project, Te Whāriki project and PlainsFM.

Tyler and Shiloh are both Māori and share how their cultural identity shapes how other aspects of their identity intersect and collide. They share similarities in how they feel the weight of inherited cultural responsibility and expectations. We talk about colonisation, misinformation and the difference between systems powered by control and those powered by belonging. We agreed that the personal is political for all and choosing to stay silent is often related to privilege.

Conscious Catalysts is a series of kōrero to share stories of people who are living and learning intentionally so that they might provoke and catalyse systems change. The series shares the lived experiences of LinC’s Te Whāriki team members, intersectional leaders exploring and activating the intersections of their identity to provoke systems change. It has been developed as a collaboration between Leadership Lab’s Rourou project, Te Whāriki project and PlainsFM.

We unpack further what the term Tangata Tiriti means, why it’s important and identify some actions we can take in practicing and becoming Tangata Tiriti.

Becoming Tangata Tiriti is a⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Leadership Lab Rourou intiative⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, developed in collaboration with⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠PlainsFM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and is a series of kōrero/conversations about Te Tiriti o Waitangi and what it means to be Tangata Tiriti in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The series is brought to you by ⁠Gwyn John⁠ and ⁠Fi Deehan⁠, two non-Māori people living in Aotearoa New Zealand. We acknowledge that this is the frame of reference from which we speak and discuss this topic. We acknowledge that this topic is so much more than we could hope to explore in this series and that it may be difficult for some to hear us discuss some of these events in such a quick manner. We acknowledge that we are not able to give this kōrero the time it actually deserves. What we are trying to achieve is to simply begin some conversations and learning journeys that need to be started.

You can find a list of links to resources that you can read, watch and listen to ⁠here⁠.

We continue to take a look back to explore some key events to help us understand what has happened since Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed and the impact as a result of these events bringing us to the present, December 2023.

Becoming Tangata Tiriti is a⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Leadership Lab Rourou intiative⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, developed in collaboration with⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠PlainsFM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and is a series of kōrero/conversations about Te Tiriti o Waitangi and what it means to be Tangata Tiriti in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The series is brought to you by ⁠Gwyn John⁠ and ⁠Fi Deehan⁠, two non-Māori people living in Aotearoa New Zealand. We acknowledge that this is the frame of reference from which we speak and discuss this topic. We acknowledge that this topic is so much more than we could hope to explore in this series and that it may be difficult for some to hear us discuss some of these events in such a quick manner. We acknowledge that we are not able to give this kōrero the time it actually deserves. What we are trying to achieve is to simply begin some conversations and learning journeys that need to be started.

You can find a list of links to resources that you can read, watch and listen to ⁠here⁠.

We take a look back to explore some key events to help us understand what has happened since Te Tiriti o Waitangi was signed and the impact as a result of these events.

Becoming Tangata Tiriti is a⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠Leadership Lab Rourou intiative⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, developed in collaboration with⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠PlainsFM⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and is a series of kōrero/conversations about Te Tiriti o Waitangi and what it means to be Tangata Tiriti in Aotearoa New Zealand.

The series is brought to you by ⁠Gwyn John⁠ and ⁠Fi Deehan⁠, two non-Māori people living in Aotearoa New Zealand. We acknowledge that this is the frame of reference from which we speak and discuss this topic. We acknowledge that this topic is so much more than we could hope to explore in this series and that it may be difficult for some to hear us discuss some of these events in such a quick manner. We acknowledge that we are not able to give this kōrero the time it actually deserves. What we are trying to achieve is to simply begin some conversations and learning journeys that need to be started.

You can find a list of links to resources that you can read, watch and listen to ⁠here⁠.