1. Getting your own house in order.

Becoming utterly connected with personal agency and power: sharing my experiment with Human Design so far and prompting discussion.

2. Pods: A practice of small groups for mutual support and strengthening networks

Enspiral has run eight "Pods" experiments to support diversity, peer learning, capacity development and resilience for the network. After a brief presentation, we will have an open discussion on the patterns and practices for convening, hosting, and getting the most out of cohort engagements and programmes. People should leave with some inspiration and practical resources/methods by which to start or strengthen their own pods.

3. How to foster the development of a NZ Impact Investment Market

This session will consider the barriers to building an impact investment market that mobilises capital to support environmental and social impact projects

4. Reporting from the grassroots ~ for transparency + wellbeing impact

Yes! to Aakina Foundation's Measuring for Impact leadership message ~ what are the best ways to develop collaboration in reporting protocols for transparency+wellbeing of our Regions? What works? What can work to scale? Meant to be more social than technical but both in sync.

5. Green Gone Wrong - Misconceptions in Environmentalism

Discussing how Green is Grey when you scratch the surface. How the misconceptions of Organic Farming, Renewable Energies and Recycling are slowing environmental progress.

6. Long term financial sustainability of Social Enterprises

How can we ensure small social enterprises grow enough to be financially secure? How can social enterprises maintain their values and ideals while being competitive?

7. Impact Mindset - awareness, learning, action

What is the mindset we need, the barriers that get in the way and the resources we have to empower ourselves and others to move through awareness, learning, action towards impact following today?

8. The Impact Initiative - a partnership with Government

Join a discussion on Ākina and CENT's work with central Government through the Impact Initiative and what’s next.

9. A new paradigm for work: remote teams and leadership

How can we take advantage of this catalyst for flexible and remote working? What's the secret to successful remote teams and how to lead them? Share your thoughts, experiences, challenges and ideas!

10. Re-Authoring the Narratives of a “New Normal”

This interactive session is an invitation for you to explore in small groups how we can rewrite the harmful or negative narratives that influence our lives, our societies, communities and workplaces. You’ll have the opportunity to identify the different elements that make up problematic narratives, and how you might co-author a brave new post-COVID world.

11. Let's Make The Ocean Great Again

How can we move forward scaling up the sustainable blue economy working with the ocean to maintain and regenerate the health of its ecosystems and species, at a critical time?
A session that will look at fisheries, aquaculture, innovation, ocean tech, research, conservation, SDG14, the Ocean Decade, and how Aotearoa NZ has an absolutely pivotal and fundamental role to play in defining the future of civilization as we know it.

12. Self-reliance in a time of crisis- waste to clean energy in Christchurch

To discuss solutions for building a self-reliant Christchurch by taking community waste and converting it to clean fuel/electricity for community use.

13. Kindness - Creating a future from the heart

Children name being kind - mākoha - as their top value. What does it mean to being kind to ourselves and others and how will have kindness an impact on our future? What does it mean to live a life from the heart? Join the spirit of openness, creativity and connectedness as your hosts invite you to share your values and ideas.

14. There are no digital natives: Upskilling everyone with the digital literacy needed to survive and thrive mid- and post-crisis

This pandemic offers a stark reminder of the digital divide that separates people who lack devices/internet/digital skills from people who use them to fully participate as learners, workers, and citizens. Yet formal education is still struggling to adapt to teaching for and in this digital age. Let’s discuss our challenges, strategies, and ideas regarding how to best upskill people of all ages and backgrounds and not leave anyone behind.

15. A place-based approach to recovery and regeneration: what opportunities to grow thriving local ecosystems?

What are the potential levers to transition local economies out of Covid-19 crisis and into recovery, and better even, into regeneration? Starting with what we know about the ingredients that are needed for local ecosystems to thrive in 'normal' time, what does this look like through the Covid-19 lens? What new or urgent needs are there for local initiatives or local investment? What opportunities are enhanced by the situation?

16. Empowering all kiwis to take action on climate change.

We all know the climate crisis is upon us, but it is easy to feel helpless around what action you can take. CoGo is a social enterprise that is helping people align their spending and values, and in 2 weeks will launch a new climate feature into our UK app. It is coming to NZ soon, and we want to give you a sneak peek and generate ideas you have around the action people should be encouraged to take (so we can build it into the app). https://nz.cogo.co/

17. Unlocking the possibilities for REAL DIVERSITY in the workforce

How can we build more resilient and INCLUSIVE communities that are able to more sustainably support diversity?

18. Unleashing the Power of Diversity in Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation

Come along and experience an opportunity to unleash creativity and innovation in this session. We will take a wicked question (or two) and see if you can come up with some creative and innovative ideas. We will then unpack some principles of unleashing diversity that you can apply in your teams and organisations.

19. Include and unleash everyone: a learning experience!

Change cannot be broad enough to make a real difference unless a large number of people become fully involved, not only as participants but also as change agents in shaping their future. Experience a change method that everybody can use every day that engages everyone simultaneously in generating questions/ideas/suggestions on how to make an impact in their local community. Your voice will be heard at least 7 times in this session.

20. Caring about your health - engaging as a person, not just a patient

New Zealand's health system has the effect of treating people (patients) as passive "things", not active "agents" of their health. "Health literacy" often focuses only on translating a clinical point of view, rather than looking at the situation from the patient's perspective. What could be done to shift towards more active and holistic participation and understanding of your health/illness/conditions?

21. Telling stories about achieving aspirations

A brief series of vignettes about achieving aspirations and ‘success’ from work & personal perspectives.
In the first part the story-tellers have 3 mins each to describe: their initial hopes & aspirations, their conflicts, ambiguities & affect in their journey, what their ‘success’ felt like, and how their sense of their world had changed.
In the second longer part in breakout rooms, participants will consider the relevance their own stories can have for their setting aspirations, particularly as we move into the post Covid-19 world.

22. Making local real - how can community-led enterprise solutions succeed?

How can provincial NZ lead local solutions through social enterprise? What makes community-led responses work well at a local scale? How do we influence and access resourcing, particularly with the post-Covid-19 opportunities coming? We'll use a Te Puke example and explore Whanganui's strategy.

23. Three Trillion Dollars Worth of Clothes

Reshaping the imploding $3 trillion Fashion industry from a humanitarian crisis into fairer, greener + smarter trade

24. Creating an equitable society

Different people will require different help depending on their circumstances. We will collectively identify different levels of support required and how we might address their most important needs.

25. Creating ways to participate in decisions that matter

How might we create + hold the space for participation to happen? What might those spaces look like? We want people to have a voice in the decisions that will affect their future.

26. Build a "locals" Mall

Current project in Whanganui (early stages of feasibility)- needs your ideas and collaboration. Im planning to lease a large vacant building and sublet it to local businesses to create a Community based Mall -love your input, questions, ideas and contributions. A short presentation with time for you to engage

27. Creating long-term social capital from our sense of community

We will identify what is working for communities at present. What are the networks that are working and how might we build on this? Help develop a framework that can become ‘the norm’.

28. Meeting future accessibility needs

Those who’ve previously had issues accessing services are now finding it easier, eg xx. What lessons can we learn to help inform the design of future services?

29. Good-buy, re-buy and un-buy: how do we stimulate the most influential people in the world (the consumer) to change buying habits?

We’re a proud BCorp-certified company. We want to explore what works, what’s needed and how we can collectively (as consumers at any scale) motivate ourselves and others to channel the influence we have into making a real impact on our new horizons.

30. Steampunk Engineer meets Mystic Mariner

A theatrical performance dialogue that will intrigue, tickle your funny bone (perhaps) and provoke us to move beyond dualism and binary thinking. Indian steampunker Engineer Babu in conversation with Mystic Megan, an offshore mariner. Reactions & discussion in small groups post-performance.

31. How to improve education of remote learning

With so many people learning and teaching from home, what works best?

32. How might we play to our strengths in a post-COVID world?

Exploring ideas for how we might play to our strengths in a post-COVID world - learn how the strengths movement can support a happier, more productive and fulfilling life. Link this up with the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a framework for realising the future that is balanced, sustainable and equitable.

33. Leverage the heck out of chch IT and entrepreneur experience to develop best collaborative systems here

So many brilliant IT professionals and entrepreneurs, identify roadblocks to have them help on critical community information needs.

34. Flexibility for greater impact

Exploring flexible working arrangement to enable stronger collaboration between the for profit and the for purpose sectors. COVID shows that we can achieve more if we get out of our silos. What needs to happen to maintain the collaboration across sectors.

35. Working together with a team of 5 million!

Working together. How can we engage with our team of 5 million to continue the courage and kindness through the Covid-19 response? This will require kindness, innovation and collaboration, powered by partnerships between all sectors and good Treaty-based relationships.