I thought it was about time to write something down about the work I am doing with the amazing team at Onehunga Oranga Hub on Manawatahi, which is what we are calling the Participatory City Approach in Tāmaki Makaurau(Auckland). The name was created for us by the very talented Morehu…

Once upon a time when I was at a conference I met a wonderful man named Glen Lauder. At the time I was cocreating a social lab to support youth well being in Tāmaki called Flipping East. Glen came up to help facilitate with what I thought would be a…

I can’t do this anymore. Chase the mechanical hare of my preferred future like an innovation greyhound. My acupuncturist informs me that the qi in my body seperates, hot qi to my head, cold qi to my feet, leaving my stomach cold. This is followed by anxiety, depression, dysfunction. Why do I want this preferred future so much, enough to make me sick? Better to follow the advice of the ancients in the Dao De Jing:

I love my family for a lot of reasons. And one is that we all have agency. My partner and I have been gradually working out over the years how to each have our own voice, collaborate, sometimes do things independently, and support each other. There’s a lot we have…

I read Thich Nhat Hanh in “The Diamond that Cuts through Illusion”:

“The Dawn of Everything” is such a remarkable, paradigm shifting book. The authors synthesise lots of emerging research which are illuminating vast stretches of time that have previously been relegated to something under a label called “prehistory”, which experts had presumed to be rather unexciting, with little in the way…

You might agree that it feels like we have clicked over into another era. Covid still lingers in the background, supply chain problems pop up in surprising ways (no eggs in the supermarket recently!), and the trauma of Papa Tuanuku (Mother Earth) starts to bubble to the surface: in Auckland…

This Waitangi Day I feel a mixture of shame and grief. I want to apologize to all the Māori that my ancestors oppressed for all the ways that they created intergenerational trauma on a massive scale, and I want to apologise for my and other tangata tiriti’s complacency in making…

When I was at university I came across Capoiera, and have been to a few classes. It’s physically demanding, making you hold your weight with your arms and legs down on the floor and working your core muscles. It’s one of the few physical activities that really made me watch…