Tītoko o Te Ao

Leadership in Action in Whānau Ora

Tītoko o Te Ao: Leadership in Action in Whānau Ora is a leadership Programme that will be specifically designed for emerging Māori leaders with an emphasis on implementing Whānau Ora across sectors.

Participants will be exposed to key leaders of today with cutting edged insights into leadership and tikanga Māori, as well as being provided with leadership tools such as communication skills, strategic thinking, project design and management, policy, collaborative networking, reflective practice, writing papers and other skills.

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It is clear that leadership is the essential catalyst for community action, change, the influencing of health, social systems, the machinery of organisations and government and the mobilisation of people and resources. 

The programme view is that if emerging leaders from different sectors are trained together in a similar environment, when they network together, share ideas and resources from their respective positions, and when they plan projects together under the common goal of Whānau Ora, this should transcend the current organisational demarcations and silos which hinder the true potential of inter-sectorial collaboration.

The short term outcomes will be for the emerging leaders themselves and the skills they develop as a rōpu and network. The emerging leaders will be able to work in a way espoused by Whānau Ora that is reshaping services that they lead or that under their influence; better co-ordinating services and service interventions; focusing on whānau as opposed to the individual; better utilising and marshalling their resources; and empowering whānau to their own aspirations.

The leadership programme is held over four modules and based at Tūrangawaewae Marae recognising of the symbolic leadership of the Kīngitanga.

Tītoko o Te Ao is funded by the Ministry of Health's Te Ao Auahatanga Hauora Māori: The Māori Health Innovations Fund. The fund responds to the vision of Whānau Ora, and the need to design responsive services that recognise the interconnectedness of health, education, housing, justice, welfare, employment and lifestyle as elements of whānau well-being.

Cohort 3 is due to start in June, dates listed below.

• 28th & 29th June, 2012
• 2nd & 3rd August, 2012
• 6th & 7th September, 2012
• 4th & 5th October, 2012

Dates for 2013 will be confirmed before November 2012. 

Please contact Tania for more information, and to register your interest.