Camp IRL is back for another year!
We’re excited to announce our next offering: Camp In Real Life! We all know there’s just something special about being together face-to-face!
We’re bringing together a group of 25 people for a two-day Camp In Real Life. Camp In Real Life is for community workers in all its different definitions to come together to do some collective thinking and learning.
The Theme for Camp In Real Life is Participation Culture—an in person experience by and for us.
It’s not about experts presenting at you, this is about our accumulated wisdom being shared with each other. There will an open space time, the idea being that different folks from the group will lead workshops, sharing their own insights and experiences
Come ready to both share and learn in a dynamic environment shaped by all of us.
Date: 31st October—1st November, 2024
Location: ONLINE
Price: $400 +GST*
*Includes accommodation for one night, food over the two days and some entertainment on Thursday night!
Session one: Te Tiriti in our work—Led by Johnnie Freeland
Johnnie Freeland (Ngāti Te Ata Waiohua, Ngāti Mahuta, Ngāti Apakura, Ngāi Tuhoe and Ngāpuhi descent) is a wayfinder, systems navigator and whakapapa centered designer. He brings more than 30 years of experience serving community and guiding a range of Iwi, Māori community and public sector organisations in working to achieve better outcomes with Māori.
He utilises mātauranga Māori: Māori systems thinking, knowledge and practice in navigating systems. He draws on knowledge and practice of maramataka (lunar celestial cycles) and whakatere waka (waka navigation) in designing oranga motuhake (well-being pathways).
Johnnie has helped navigate a whakapapa-centered response to climate change within Tāmaki Makaurau, through the Tāmaki Makaurau Mana Whenua Forum, and has worked to harness the benefits of drawing on mātauranga Māori knowledge and western science to navigate a way forward for Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland through Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri Auckland’s Climate Plan. Johnnie previously worked for Wellington City Council, as the Manager for Māori Strategy, within Mataaho Aronui, the Strategic Māori Outcomes unit for the Council. He now works for Oranga Tamariki as a site manager in Pukekohekohe for Service Delivery across South Tāmaki Makaurau, and as a faculty member on The Regenerative Practitioner Series.
See Freeland’s work on a binocular approach to the regeneration of people, place and nature; looking at future states through a Te Ao Māori lens alongside a (Western) Regenerative Practice lens.