Holistic Learning Conference Aotearoa
The conference has been a great success (for more information on the 2012 conference, see below) - huge thank you to all who shared their skills and knowledge and joy in learning. In order to stay in touch, network and exchange ideas we have created the forum for YOU to be part of an exciting evolving community. InJoy!
Holistic Learning
Following Interests * Choices * Developing Self
What do YOU want for your child(ren)?
3-Day-Conference - Top of the South/New Zealand
27—29 January, 2012
This was an open-space-conference at Riverside Community to allow for individual or group work and the opportunity to work both indoors and out.
Ako-a-rongo can be interpreted in many ways. It means reciprocal teaching and learning using all your senses, listening, being heard, peaceful sharing. During these 3 days our focus is to experience and explore how to develop creative spaces, relationships, communication and values - the fundamentals that allow for:
The Guest speakers
Ally Bull of NZCER (New Zealand Council for Educational Research). Ally is a registered teacher with experience at all levels of the primary school, in pre-service and in-service teacher education, as a resource teacher of learning and behaviour, and in distance education. She has worked in a Māori enrichment class and has held a senior management position in a multi-cultural school.
In one of her recent projects she is investigating how schools, families and communities are working together in learning communities: "We have gathered baseline data from four schools on teachers’, parents’, and students’ current perceptions of the relationship between school, student and family and the purpose of education. The project will track the processes each school uses to engage its community and how people think about community engagement."
More about Ally Bull
Yaacov Hecht, an internationally distinguished leader and visionary in democratic education, learning theory, and societal change. In 1987, he founded the Democratic school in Hadera, Israel, the frst school in the world to call itself democratic. Due to the school's success, Hecht helped to establish a net of democratic schools all over Israel. In 1992, he convened the first International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC); an annual conference that continues to connect educators, schools and organizations.
More about Yaacov Hecht
Jesper Juul, an internationally renowned public speaker, author, family therapist and educator with activities in more than 15 countries around the globe. Since 2007 Jesper Juul has been the founder and leader of Family-lab International – an organization offering seminars, lectures, workshops and counseling to parents and families, public organizations as well as private enterprises.
To many Jesper Juul is best known as the author of Your competent child (1995) where he summarized his 25 years of experience working with families and challenges many major assumptions of traditional developmental psychology ad well as the dominating models and methods of pedagogy and childrearing. His findings has since been confirmed by both neuroscience and relational psychology and constitutes the basis for a new paradigm and perspective in the study of and principles for dealing with families as well as the interaction between children, youth and adults.
More about Jesper Juul
Working as a psychologist for more than 25 years, Helle Jensen bases her work on equality, respect for the integrity of the individual, authentic presence and awareness. She works as a family therapist, supervisor, workshop leader and speaker based on existential psychology. Helle has written several books. Her latest book about Empathy, written together with Jesper Juul (FamilyLab) et al will be published early next year. She has been part in organising large scale conferences about "The 9th intelligence in education". She is deeply involved in a similar organisation to Ako-a-Rongo in Denmark.
More about Helle Jensen
Please click here to meet more 2012 presenters/participants!
Holistic Learning
Following Interests * Choices * Developing Self
What do YOU want for your child(ren)?
3-Day-Conference - Top of the South/New Zealand
27—29 January, 2012
This was an open-space-conference at Riverside Community to allow for individual or group work and the opportunity to work both indoors and out.
Ako-a-rongo can be interpreted in many ways. It means reciprocal teaching and learning using all your senses, listening, being heard, peaceful sharing. During these 3 days our focus is to experience and explore how to develop creative spaces, relationships, communication and values - the fundamentals that allow for:
- deep learning
- true dialogue
- voices being heard and valued
- all involved feeling safe to express
- unity in duality, embracing diversity
- different perspectives and cultural backgrounds
- developing constructive responses to those differences
- awareness of choices
- exploration of new pathways outside of the already existing, established, acknowledged framework
The Guest speakers
Ally Bull of NZCER (New Zealand Council for Educational Research). Ally is a registered teacher with experience at all levels of the primary school, in pre-service and in-service teacher education, as a resource teacher of learning and behaviour, and in distance education. She has worked in a Māori enrichment class and has held a senior management position in a multi-cultural school.
In one of her recent projects she is investigating how schools, families and communities are working together in learning communities: "We have gathered baseline data from four schools on teachers’, parents’, and students’ current perceptions of the relationship between school, student and family and the purpose of education. The project will track the processes each school uses to engage its community and how people think about community engagement."
More about Ally Bull
Yaacov Hecht, an internationally distinguished leader and visionary in democratic education, learning theory, and societal change. In 1987, he founded the Democratic school in Hadera, Israel, the frst school in the world to call itself democratic. Due to the school's success, Hecht helped to establish a net of democratic schools all over Israel. In 1992, he convened the first International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC); an annual conference that continues to connect educators, schools and organizations.
More about Yaacov Hecht
Jesper Juul, an internationally renowned public speaker, author, family therapist and educator with activities in more than 15 countries around the globe. Since 2007 Jesper Juul has been the founder and leader of Family-lab International – an organization offering seminars, lectures, workshops and counseling to parents and families, public organizations as well as private enterprises.
To many Jesper Juul is best known as the author of Your competent child (1995) where he summarized his 25 years of experience working with families and challenges many major assumptions of traditional developmental psychology ad well as the dominating models and methods of pedagogy and childrearing. His findings has since been confirmed by both neuroscience and relational psychology and constitutes the basis for a new paradigm and perspective in the study of and principles for dealing with families as well as the interaction between children, youth and adults.
More about Jesper Juul
Working as a psychologist for more than 25 years, Helle Jensen bases her work on equality, respect for the integrity of the individual, authentic presence and awareness. She works as a family therapist, supervisor, workshop leader and speaker based on existential psychology. Helle has written several books. Her latest book about Empathy, written together with Jesper Juul (FamilyLab) et al will be published early next year. She has been part in organising large scale conferences about "The 9th intelligence in education". She is deeply involved in a similar organisation to Ako-a-Rongo in Denmark.
More about Helle Jensen
Please click here to meet more 2012 presenters/participants!