Free workshop on Better conversations and restorative thinking
Book now for this free workshop on Friday 20 October. Register here:
events.humanitix.com...
Restorative thinking helps us to build and maintain good community relationships. This workshop is a chance to get a discussion going. It will be very interactive rather than long presentations. Let's get talking. Sessions will cover topics such as building connections, developing our confidence in brave conversations and self-facilitation, the role for faith groups in promoting restorative thinking and practice.
Sarah Thorne from ANCAD will assist us to think about how we might give and receive effective feedback. We'll play a game which demonstrates the importance of giving feedback and then explore why feedback is so important. And we'll have a go. Rebecca Smith will ask, 'Do you belong?' Her session will consider connections/relationships and how they resound with our sense of belonging. And how this can work in a community or at a street level. Rebecca works for Neighbourhood Support. Kim Bulluss will help us to explore assumptions and personal truths. Erica Fairbank will share some insights on communication secrets: reconnecting through the Language of Every Body. Richard Ward, a prison chaplain and chaplain service manager, will draw on his experience to consider how we can make our conversations safe and a safe place to be; on listening beyond and behind the words. Richard will ask us to think about recognising prejudice, valuing the humanity of the other and appropriately asking challenging questions. Greg Morgan will offer a very brief intro to the thinking behind this workshop. There will be space for all participants to share thoughts and questions.
(Note: this is non-denominational and not an in-church activity.)
Vegetarian lunch provided with some vegan options.
Brought to you by Onewa Christian Community and ANCAD.
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Poll: 🤖 What skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
The Reserve Bank has shared some pretty blunt advice: there’s no such thing as a “safe” job anymore 🛟😑
Robots are stepping into repetitive roles in factories, plants and warehouses. AI is taking care of the admin tasks that once filled many mid-level office jobs.
We want to know: As the world evolves, what skills do you think give a CV the ultimate edge in a robot-filled workplace?
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14.8% Critical thinking
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29.8% Resilience and adaptability
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Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
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