*Postponed, from Dec to Feb*

Tēnā koutou katoa,

We welcome you to join us on the 4th of December for an interesting, challenging, and insightful workshop, Diversity, and Inclusion | How to become a better ally for our BIPOC communities.

We will be challenging ourselves to look deep into our behaviours and the behaviours of our community and learn more about how we can be stronger and better together.

The workshop will run 10 am - 4 pm with a 45 min lunch break around midday. We will be providing and delicious lunch of local food to share together.

We ask that you bring with your vulnerability, open heart, open mind, empathy, respect and willingness to share and grow. Oh and a notebook!

We know that great change comes from doing hard mahi and we ask that you respect others and how this may make them feel. If at any point of the workshop you need to stop out for some personal space we invite you to do this.

Please register for this via our Tickettailor as spaces are limited. Vaccine passport required.

From Isabella

“This interactive workshop is designed to provide you with shared language and understanding of how to move towards anti-racist practices and implementation in your personal and professional lives. This workshop offers meaningful learning and reflection opportunities for participants of all racial identities while issuing a clear call to action for those upholding current systems of white privilege. By examining how the concept of “whiteness” influences the food system, this training creates space for white folks and people of colour alike to reflect on their individual and collective contributions to the larger systems around us.

This workshop opens the opportunity to have uncomfortable but necessary conversations around race and our role in the system. We will explore how the work of dismantling oppressive systems requires both individual and collective accountability for our roles within these systems. It challenges you to have the courage to lean into discomfort and engage in conversation-based learning through a lens of empathy; especially for white people who may be grappling with racial privilege and the responsibilities associated with those privileges. 

The workshop will be modelled around my own vulnerability and reflecting upon my own privileges (and lack of them). I believe that only when we are truly vulnerable and brutally honest with ourselves and others we can actively dismantle inequitable systems and move towards collective action.”

Ngā Mihi