Engaging with Pasifika
Engage more effectively with Pacific families and their communities. Connect with Pacific peoples and improve your ability to develop policies and strategies aimed at Pasifika communities.
Course overview
Pacific peoples are dynamic and vibrant peoples with a long-standing special relationship with Aotearoa New Zealand. Over decades they have made a significant contribution to the social, economic, cultural and sporting life of Aotearoa New Zealand.
However they also feature in the lower part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s socio-economic, justic, education and health statistics. Mainstream agencies in their efforts to engage with Pasifika have often seen Pacific communities as a ‘hard to reach’ group.
This course is designed to help participants engage more effectively with Pacific families and their communities. It offers practical, proven approaches that will contribute to effective interpersonal relationships to improve participants understanding of Pasifika communities, participants’ ability to connect with Pacific peoples, and to inform their ability to develop policies and strategies aimed at Pacific communities.
What you'll learn
- Appreciate the diversity of Pacific peoples.
- Appreciate the influence of Pacific peoples socio-economic context.
- Understand shared Pacific cultural values and motivational drivers.
- Engage effectively with Pasifika.
- Identify and apply practical tips and strategies.
- Work collaboratively with Pasifika to achieve a shared strategic goal.
Course modules
- General Aotearoa New Zealand and Pacific context.
- Why is this important?
- Self-awareness: The package you bring.
- Cultural models of engagement.
- Underlying shared Pacific cultural values and motivational drivers.
- Building connection: Understanding and adapting our own communication style to establish and build a connection.
- Practical tips and strategies: Important Dos and Don’ts.
- Practical scenarios.
- What Next? Extending the learning: Navigating the cultural currents of the Pacific.
Further Information
Approach
Catalyst Pacific uses a deceptively simple powerful Appreciate approach to professional learning and development. The presenters draw on a range of cultural and learning models to tap into particpants own experience to connect and embed the course cotnent and shared learning.
This workshop is highly interactive incorporating a range of facilitation techniques including: peer-to-peer interaction, small group and wider group discussion, practical scenarios based on the participant’s real-life challenges, and a take-away resource workbook for ongoing and future reference.
Catalyst Pacific
The presenters for Engaging with Pasifika are Holona and Trish Lui, the principals of Catalyst Pacific Ltd, a NZ based learning and development consultancy. They have a specialist area of expertise, in building cultural intelligence and effective cross-cultural communication to support high performance in teams and organisations to build and strengthen relationships and achieve their business objectives.
In this course they focus on effective engagement with Pasifika in New Zealand and abroad.
Holona and Trish have a proven track record with more than 20 years’ experience working with leadership tiers, and influential groups and individuals in public sector, private sector, and not-for-profit businesses and organisations.
In doing this, they draw on in a wide variety of proven learning and development, and international cross-cultural communications and cultural competency development tools and frameworks. These include among others; Appreciative Inquiry, the Richard Lewis CultureActive model, the award winning Inter-Cultural Global DISC (iDISC™), ExcelL (Excellence in Cultural Experiential Learning and Leadership) Intercultural Skills Programme, StrengthsFinder, TetraMap, Team Management Index profiling (TMI) and 360-degree feedback.
Trish holds a Bachelor of Arts (English Literature and Education, Victoria University of Wellington) and Certificate in Te Ara Reo Māori Level 4 from Te Wananga of Aotearoa. Trish’s previous roles include: Programme Director for the New Zealand College of Management, which had a joint venture with Victoria University of Wellington for the Centre for the Study of Leadership. Trish is also part of delivering the Victoria University’s ‘Aspire: Women’s Leadership Development Programme’.
Holona holds Bachelor of Arts (English Literature, Victoria University of Wellington) and a Diploma in Teaching (NZ). Holona’s previous roles include: Manager, Communications for the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs, Senior Presentation Director for Television New Zealand and secondary teaching, including English as a Second Language. Holona is also a self-published author of ‘Keeping it REAL, Mentoring with Cultural Intelligence’.
Both are members of the New Zealand Association of Positive Psychology (NZAPP) and have a strong interest in high performance sport.
Management Capability Development Fund
This course is registered with the Management Capability Development Fund.
Small businesses may qualify for funding to help pay for services such as training workshops, courses and coaching that build the management capabilities of their owners and key managers.
Management Capability Development funding is only available through the Regional Business Partner Network (RBP) Growth Advisors and can be used with service providers registered with the RBP Network.
Funding may be provided to a business where the Growth Advisors have identified a need for management training as part of an action plan to support the business owner to grow and innovate their business. Business owners are then able to select a service from a registered Service Provider.
For more information on the Management Capability Development Fund or to find your local Growth Advisor go to www.regionalbusinesspartners.co.nz.
Here's what others are saying
“Trish and Holona have a great dynamic which makes the class feel welcoming, personal and genuine. Thank you.”
“This is a fantastic course. Should be fundamental before working in the Pacific.”
“Holona & Trish have a relaxed, engaged & interactive approach that is helpful and relevant. An extremely thorough workbook that will be useful going forward”
“We received such a warm welcome in a truly Pasifika style from Holona and Trish which helped set the tone completely for the session ahead. The course really helped to put things in perspective for me and build on the knowledge that I had prior. I believe that I am definitely better equipped now to make truly meaningful, long lasting relationships within the Pacific communities which is brilliant.”
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