“There are still too many people in Taranaki who know very little about their own local history and how their lives have been shaped by it. And this ignorance continues to have its consequences.” — vivian Hutchinson e-tangata.co.nz/history/the-an…

Five things to do for personal and community resilience during a time of pandemic. taranaki.gen.nz/fivethings

Five Things To Do For Personal and Community Resilience During a Time of Pandemic drive.google.com/open?id=1T6-xi…

These are conversations that matter. They are the conversations that enable our communities to awaken, heal and thrive. taranaki.gen.nz/hca

These are conversations that matter. They have the potential to remake the child, the consumer and the spectator — into a creator, a caretaker, and a changemaker. taranaki.gen.nz/hca

After four decades of working on community initiatives to address unemployment, I slowly started to recognise that the thing that was most in danger of becoming unemployed was the concept of “community” itself. taranaki.gen.nz/hca01-the-feat…

These are initiation questions for a majority culture that has forgotten how to do that job. taranaki.gen.nz/hca02-growing-…

Getting the invitation right can mean a whole re-wiring of how we understand the effectiveness and sustainability of our activism. taranaki.gen.nz/hca03-the-nece…

A community-builder knows that if you want to create possibilities, then you also need to stop focusing on your problems. taranaki.gen.nz/hca04-the-crea…

Our welfare professionals and practitioners are as trapped in an unworkable system as much as those who are in need of the social support being administered. taranaki.gen.nz/hca05-crossing…

Having had the privilege of three covid jabs, this is the best gift I can think of giving right now - to help ensure there are enough vaccines for everyone, everywhere. If you feel the same, do join me and #GoGiveOne today. gogiveone.org

The “team of five million” has not been true for too many people for too long. tuesdayclub.nz/protest-and-so…

It is Taranaki Anniversary this weekend. Is this local holiday about remembering or forgetting? Why has it taken so long for Pākehā people to become curious about their own ancestry and their history? e-tangata.co.nz/history/the-an…

on this Autumn Equinox – an open letter to 2050 about the climate emergency taranaki.gen.nz/aletterto2050

Public intelligence is the intelligence that needs a conversation for its thoughts to ripen and mature. That’s what’s afoot here. taranaki.gen.nz/citizen-in-chr…

This book is not just about the importance and urgency of active citizenship amidst today's challenges. The book itself acts as a window through which to look at our world and those challenges. taranaki.gen.nz/citizensalexan…

Being brave is the beginning of liberation. It feels like a fall until you remember that you have wings. friendsofeurope.org/wp/wp-content/…

In the face of all that is trying to convince us otherwise, this book speaks of the beautiful and practical promise of human kind. Not a sentimental tome. It points to the distinctions of character that we as citizens need to understand if we intend to reach for that promise.

I was sent a book by Vivian Hutchinson in NZ🇳🇿vivian Hutchinson. As often from Aotearoa, it conveys much that parallels a Scottish ethos. This comment in his email echoes what I dubbed "The Manknell Doctrine" on #welfare, after Shirley M of Dundee social services👉bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/03/04/the…

50 years ago. My memoir on the Māori Land March is now online. It describes events in early 1975 as Dame Whina Cooper and Te Roopu o te Matakite planned a 1000-km protest walk from the top of the North Island down to Parliament Grounds in Wellington. taranaki.gen.nz/matakite50