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.
Primary School Tutoring – North Shore
Hi neighbours,
I’m a local primary school teacher with experience teaching Years 3–6, and I’m offering a small number of after-school tutoring sessions for primary-aged students.
I can support children with:
• Reading and comprehension
• Writing skills
• Maths confidence
• Catch-up support or extension for capable learners
My focus is on helping students build confidence as well as skills, using practical strategies that work in the classroom.
📍 I’m based on the North Shore, close to Willow Park Primary School.
⏰ Current availability: Thursdays at 4pm, with a few fortnightly session options also available.
$60 for 45 minute sessions.
If you’d like to chat about whether tutoring could help your child, feel free to send me a message.
Kelly
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?
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