This hui will explore why and how to bring connection, healing and coherence into systems change work. It draws from experience in shaping Haumanu as a restorative system change approach that is grounded in Aotearoa, and learning from collectives around the world. The hui will also share experience of Future Search in Aotearoa as an example of how system coherence can be grown via a large scale collaboration process. CSI has partnered with the global Future Search Network to make this methodology accessible across Aotearoa.

This hui offers you an opportunity to learn about and experience:

• Why healing and building coherence are fundamental to the work of system change

• How we experience coherence and fragmentation

• How a system can become more coherent

• Practices to grow ‘small islands’ of coherence

• The Future Search process, including how to bring a whole system into a room

Note: A further hui, How To Bring Healing Into System Change Work – Haumanu Practices, follows this hui on Wednesday 10 September. You are also welcome to register for this event.

About the presenters:

Louise Marra is an associate of the Centre for Social Impact. Louise provides specialist advice on the Centre for Social Impact Haumanu programme, a healing-orientated way of leading and working, restorative leadership, systems work and social innovation. And she is a senior associate of the international Collective Change Lab.

Tuihana Ohia is an associate of the Centre for Social Impact. She has been involved in the design and implementation of a number of significant wellbeing initiatives and brings a wellbeing perspective and expertise to project management, programme design, capacity building, strategy development, relationship liaison.

Miranda Cassidy-O’Connell is an associate of the Centre for Social Impact and accredited Future Search Trainer. She has extensive experience in creating conditions that enable diverse voices to reach common ground.

John Kania of the Collective Change Lab and his colleague Laura Calderon de la Barca will join in the morning session online. The Collective Change Lab, run out of the USA, has been involved with more than 100 collective change efforts around the world, and is now innovating to find ways to go deeper in relational connection, systemic analysis, healing, and developing power-shifting solutions.