Ki te Ao Mārama - To the World of Light

Are you ready to address Workplace inequities by making use of your privilege and power?

Have you been thinking about:

  • how to build an inclusive workplace

  • increasing your awareness of privilege

  • increasing your effectiveness in identifying and addressing workplace inequities

  • how to bring others on board to be allies

Emerge into the world of light by increasing your understanding of privilege and power to be an ally and to affect change in the workplace.

Ki te Ao Mārama is an allyship programme interwoven with concepts in te Ao Māori (the Māori world). It is like no other allyship programme because we acknowlege that being an ally in the Aotearoa New Zealand context is different because of our unique history.

Ki te Ao Mārama covers the foundation of what is allyship, privilege and power in the Aotearoa context, and builds your understanding of workplace inequities and how to lead from where you are.

It is a programme suitable for leaders, managers, HR professionals, culture champions and anyone who has a desire to address the inequities in their workplace.

 
 

Ki te Ao Mārama

The Allyship training where you will:

  • Understand what allyship is and what it isn't

  • Understand the historical, cultural and social context of Aotearoa, including He

    Whakaputanga and te Tiriti o Waitangi, and how our history has shaped modern

    social dynamics of power and privilege

  • Unpack your privilege in and outside of work, and in the Aotearoa context

  • Learn about the inequities that impact people with less privilege at work

  • Gain insight into your positional power and your unique ability to create change at personal, interpersonal and systemic structural levels

  • Learn from peers to practise allyship and design actions

By the end of the training, you will be equipped to practise allyship and lead from where you are.

We’ve teamed up with a fantastic educator in te reo Māori, tikanga Māori and Aotearoa History, Regan Kupu Stokes, to deliver this training. Kupu’s profile is below. We would also like to credit LeanIn Allyship at Work as we have adapted their training material to suit the Aotearoa context and workplaces.

Programme Structure

The programme is made up of 1x half day training and 2x follow up sessions:

  • Introductions: Whakawhanaungatanga

  • Wāhanga Module 1: What is Allyship

  • Wāhanga Module 2: Unpack your privilege, and in an Aotearoa context

  • Wāhanga Module 3: Understand workplace inequities

  • Wāhanga Module 4: Understand positional power and how to create change

  • Follow up sessions focused on allyship actions

Who is this suitable for?

Ki te Ao Mārama is suitable for leaders, managers, HR professionals, culture champions and anyone who has a desire to understand and address the inequities in their workplace.

How to get started?

We do this programme in house and can tailor the content to fit your organisational context and tie the allyship actions back to your organisational values. Let’s have a chat.

Facilitators of the programme

Suki Xiao (Tangata Tiriti, Chinese)

Regan Kupu Stokes (Ngāi Te Rangi, English) - Educator in te reo Māori, tikanga Māori and Aotearoa History

Ko Mauao te maunga,
Ko Tauranga te moana,
Ko Mātaatua te waka,
Ko Ngāi Te Rangi, ko Ngā Pōtiki a Tamapahore, ko Ngāti Ranginui, ko Ngāti Pūkenga, ko Tūwharetoa, ko Tūhourangi, ko Ngāti Wai ngā iwi.

Nō Tauranga, nō Ingarangi tēnei.
I whānau mai, i pakeke mai au ki Ōtautahi; ka rere ngā mihi ki ngā mana whenua, ki a Ngāi Tūāhuriri o Ōtautahi, ki a Ngāti Wheke o Whakaraupō.
Kei Ōhinehou mātau ko taku whānau e noho ana.
Ko Regan Graham Kupu Stokes tōku ingoa.

Kupu is of Ngāi Te Rangi and English descent, grew up in Ōtautahi, and lives in Ōhinehou with his whānau. Kupu has been teaching te reo Māori, tikanga and Aotearoa history since 2012, and is a qualified translator and interpreter. He has Masters degrees in Te Reo Māori (Te Reo Kairangi - Māori Language Excellence) and Education (Hōaka Pounamu - Bilingual Teaching) and works as a self-employed teacher, translator and consultant for Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga (Ministry of Education), Te Papa Atawhai (Department of Conservation), Christchurch City Holdings Limited, AgResearch, Beca, New Zealand Graduate School of Education and a variety of other organisations, schools and businesses across Aotearoa.