In-Person Training

The Facilitator’s Toolkit is for anyone who leads meetings, workshops, or community conversations and wants to make sure they’re leading them well. Running over two full days, with lots of hands-on interaction, you will learn how to design and deliver sessions that people want to take part in, and gain a bunch of tools and techniques for becoming a confident facilitator.

Would you like to feel more comfortable and confident facilitating in Māori spaces?

Do you wonder how to respectfully and authentically acknowledge Māori culture in your facilitation mahi?

Would you like to learn in a safe space and have those tricky questions answered?

The Facilitators Network is supporting Puawaananga to bring you a 2 day / 1 night noho marae especially for facilitators.

Aimed at beginner to intermediate learners, this  noho is a chance to experience tikanga Māori, in a Māori space, to develop your knowledge base and sharpen your cultural facilitation skills. Throughout the noho you will get loads of practical tips and gems to support you in your cultural capability journey. Plus, there’s time to explore the questions and challenges that are important to you.  Mā te kimi ka kite, Mā te kite ka mōhio, Mā te kite ka mōhio ka mārama. (Seek and discover; discover and know; know and become enlightened.)

In this noho, you will:

✅ Learn about the history of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and contemporary issues.
When you understand the intention behind Aotearoa New Zealand’s founding document, it gives you context around issues in contemporary society and helps you understand the part you can play as non-Māori.

✅ Experience tikanga Māori and principles, while working on pronunciation and te reo Māori that you can use in your mahi.
Experiencing concepts such as manaakitanga, whanaungatanga, tapu and noa first hand will equip you with powerful life lessons. Interweaving reo with correct pronunciation into your work and everyday life is a small, but big, way you can be part of revitalising te reo Māori in Aotearoa.

✅ Learn the why behind cultural practices and values.
There are lots of facilitators who want to incorporate tikanga and reo Māori into their mahi, but feel unsure about how to do this without stepping on toes. When you know the why, you can be humbly confident that you’re working from the right place.

✅ Ask tricky questions and problem solve using the wisdom in the room.
If you’ve had little to do with the Māori world and don’t understand why things are the way they are, this is your chance to ask the questions that you’ve been sitting on, because you haven’t wanted to cause offense. This is a chance to learn in a safe space where you don’t have to worry about putting your foot in it.

ABOUT YOUR FACILITATORS

Donna Barlow-Rolleston
Of Ngāti Maniapoto and Pākeha descent, Donna’s facilitation style is warm, approachable and inspiring, with a dash of challenge to keep things engaging. She is known for her vibrant energy and ability to break down complex ideas into simple, relatable messages. Whether it’s through storytelling or interactive activities, she loves helping people come together and learn in interesting and collaborative ways. Recognised as a living example of biculturalism and the richness that brings, Donna is passionate about sharing her insights for a thriving Aotearoa.

Nadine Malcolm
Ko Te Arawa, ko Mātaatua ngā waka; Kei Kirikiriroa ahau e noho ana, Ko Nadine malcolm tōku ingoa; Tēnā koutou katoa.
Nadine is a highly experienced kaiako reo Māori/Māori language teacher in mainstream spaces. Grounded in second language acquisition methodologies, her workshops are fun and full of helpful tips and tricks to help you on your language journey (and always with a dash of humour and style!)

I’ve been leading training for over 25 years, and in that time, I’ve seen all sorts of methods and techniques come and go. Some of them have been useful, but many of them are just fancy bells and whistles that add nothing to the learner experience. As an industry, we’ve been cluttering our sessions with all the wrong stuff—and some of that stuff should have stayed in the 90s!

If you want to increase learner engagement and stand out in a sea of trainers who are all competing for the same work, it’s time to re-imagine what your training could look like. And I’m not talking about a few tweaks to make your training just a little bit better. I’m talking about how you can deliver training in a whole new way.

Ignite the Room is a special one-day masterclass which gives you a chance to re-think how you design and deliver training. This kind of training gets you more engagement, better outcomes and more work. Because when you bring something different to the room, people talk.