Category Archives: Travel Stories

Meet People Where They Are (Then Sing to Them)

(This is Part 6: Community-Driven Tour 2010 New Zealand. To read these posts from the beginning, head here.) Hamilton: Visiting the Waikato Blink twice and it’s Tuesday. We’re in Hamilton, an agricultural and university community about an hour south of Auckland. As I noted in the first post in this series, we rarely know we… Continue Reading

Dreaming Ourselves Joyfully Awake

(This is Part 4: Community-Driven Tour 2010 New Zealand. To read these posts from the beginning, head here.) Waiheke Island The conference ended on Friday. As happens during these events, the energy is both exhilarating and exhausting.  After two weeks of nonstop action, though, even exhilarating was exhausting! We spent Saturday catching up on work… Continue Reading

Community-Driven Consulting Hits New Zealand

(Part 2: Community-Driven Tour 2010 in New Zealand. To read these posts from the beginning, head here.) The Class Consultant Class #8 in New Zealand.  Ten brilliant minds, all part of UNITEC’s Graduate Diploma in Not-for-Profit Management, spent 5 days re-training their brains to focus on potential and possibility (vs. problem-solving).  We learned from their… Continue Reading