Co-operacy - Facilitation, Coaching and Training

14/06/2024

If you would like to know which forests, wetlands, and other natural wonders of Aotearoa are on the chopping block, you can tell the government that you would like to see the list of places they are secretly approving for industrialization by signing this Forest and Bird petition:

The Government is refusing to release a list it is developing of environmentally-damaging projects – coal mines on public conservation land, huge dams that flood forests and fish farms in already compromised oceans – it wants to rubber stamp under its proposed Fast-track Approvals Bill.

15/12/2017

Conscious use of wealth to support the earth. Worth 15 mins of your time. Blessings.

Douglas Tompkins, conservationist and co-founder of North Face and Esprit, preserved millions of acres of beautiful land from human exploitation. This moving tribute to Tompkins shows us his inspiring legacy of conservation and his passion for the wild earth. His love of exploring the outdoors led h...

15/05/2017

Co-Counselling Training.
Two week-ends and Friday nights, May 26-28 & June 9-11

http://co-operacy.info/Training/Co-Counselling_May_June_2017.pdf

01/04/2017

Interesting read for those involved in business transformation

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/transforming-capitalism-seven-acupuncture-points_us_58e006cce4b03c2b30f6a6fa?

After a year of disheartening setbacks, many activists and change-makers may feel that the critical goal of transforming capitalism is slipping out of re...

13/03/2017

A wonderful interview on the Art of Listening
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/201836307/dr-emily-beausoleil-the-art-of-listening

Massey University lecturer Dr Emily Beausoleil has been investigating the politics of listening. She joins Wallace to talk about why, now more than ever, it's critical that we all start listening to views that clash with our own opinions - and why, if we don't, the future of democracy is under threa...

23/02/2017

12/02/2017

We are thrilled to launch our People Centred Facilitation Program for 2017. We are offering the option of three 2-day Mindful Facilitation trainings in Wellington, Auckland or Tauranga in the first half of the year, followed by the 3-day Fearless Facilitation Training in Auckland in July - see Events for more details and get in touch to find out if this is for you.

17/10/2016

Todays the time to influence this travesty

Some KiwiSaver fund managers have been investing in companies that make land mines and cluster bombs. By extension, hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders who are KiwiSaver members are unwittingly investing in companies that make weapons of war. At least five of the nine default KiwiSaver providers...

16/02/2016

This morning I spent time with my colleague Marta Fisch, designing an introductory workshop to create and sustain an authentic community for a co-housing group. We are beginning with Scott peck's description of the stages of building an intentional community.

http://atlc.org/members/resources/four_stages_community.html

According to M. Scott Peck, any group of strangers coming together to create a community goes through four distinct and predictable phases:

15/02/2016

Our thought for the week: There is liberation in recognising the "nugget of truth" buried within any disatisfaction that allows us to let all our "stories" go.

08/02/2016

Our question for the week: ‘Could inclusion be the ticket to wholeness? Rather than getting rid of parts of our experience, could inclusion fuel the expansion we desire?’ Jahndrina

I’ve been sitting with including more of my feelings and thought experiences deeply over the past few months.

When I first met Anne Bailey about coming on board with Co-Operacy, her level of inclusiveness delighted me. It connected to a part of me that felt excluded as a child and the quality of belonging was a breath a fresh air.

However, I immediately became so afraid of stuffing up and losing this valuable privilege of inclusion that certain patterns started to surface. I thought I had to be perfect in order to be included and I feared the parts of me that may not be perfect. It was very uncomfortable to say the least.

On the one hand I dismissed Anne’s ‘imperfections’ and on the other, I totally nailed myself on mine. A classic projection of a child-parent dynamic.

I was surprised that I was not dismissed for my human errors. Instead the space expanded to include me and my patterning,. This allowed the patterning to become part of the journey forward in relationship, connected, seen, experienced, available for integration, and naturally transmuted.

From this gift came greater awareness of how Anne’s humanness had impacted me. I was able to embody these feelings, get support externally, and bring my whole self into relationship. I never thought these kinds of things were possible in my life.

The next profound uttering from Anne solidified this new learning, ‘we are going to stuff up’. It seems so obvious. Simple. Out breathe. Permission. Yes… I am going to stuff up, Anne is going to stuff up, Julia is going to stuff up, but that is not the end of the road.

Embodying these experiences … staying connected in the body-mind, creating further capacity to sit with difficult experiences and finding ways to support oneself within trusted community. All this leads to a feeling of expansiveness and a tangible sense of new frontiers. A grounded, delicious sense of connection without getting rid of anything!