Resources

Vivien is an international specialist in collaborative practice. She has for the past 25 years designed and implemented stakeholder participation programs around some very sensitive projects.

She was the founding partner of Twyfords and more recently was part of the Twyfords collaborative process that developed a new model called Collaborative Governance – a way of working with diverse stakeholders to co-create enduring solutions to our most controversial dilemmas – a process urgently needed in today’s complex world. The work Vivien loves best is designing collaborative practice, coaching practitioners and providing leadership to organisations in Australia and New Zealand who recognise the need to partner and collaborate more effectively.

During her workshop, Vivien will outline the key components of the Collaborative Governance model and provide practical examples of how it can be implemented in a variety of settings.

During their workshop Analiese and Pale will explore some of the keys to Pasifika learner success. In particular, they will discuss the highly successful C-ME mentoring programme which identifies potential trainees and assists with transition from school into training and work.

Her research in e-learning includes e-learning for adults with literacy needs for the Ministry of Education and Ako Aotearoa. It also informs her teaching.

In her workshop, Niki will illustrate how e-learning can be successful as a pedagogical tool to better engage and support adults with literacy and numeracy needs.

Niki encourages workshop participants to bring their own technology so that everyone can share more ways in which e-learning can support adults to learn in many places. She will also give participants a glimpse of the future of tertiary education.

Currently she is involved in teaching adults in a number of settings and is working part-time on her PhD. Jennifer’s workshop will report on research undertaken in Christchurch with 40 women learners involved in ACE programmes around the city. The research explores the experiences of women in different settings and the impact that ACE has on their lives and that of their whanau.

Discussion of the evidence from the interviews will offer practitioners a chance to consider the benefits that ACE offers to women learners.

Cheryl McKane and Rosie Gallen will describe some real and practical examples of community learning in a grass-roots setting including in community houses and Wellington City Council Housing Flats.