Agency 2022

On a Friday 5 and Saturday 6 Aug, 2022 we gathered community and creatively energised tangata to share their stories of leadership and impact of difference. With 250 cute butts on seats across the festival, you bet your bottom dollar there was challenge, nourishment, un-learning, re-learning, and power!

Relive the experience with us through the magic of pictures.

Workshops

Agency is all about…. agency! We know that stories are incredible sources of inspo and ‘calls to action’, and at the same time sometimes you’re left feeling “ok, what tools are in my kete to activate this good sh*t?” We got you e hoa!

We gathered smart people from near and far to ensure that the impact ball keeps roooolin’ long after Agency is through. Don’t leave the awesome-ness in Castle 1, take it with ya into your flats, lecturers, homes, and future work spaces.

Emotions X Leadership with Trusting Vulnerability

This practical workshop debunks the myth that talking about emotions is unproductive. Perfect for those of us who feel a lot, think a lot, and find it tricky to communicate our inner world. Each using a card-based toolkit, Emotional Culture Deck, we articulate what it takes to feel how we want to feel to thrive!

Half-Baked with Start Up Dunedin

Half-baked is a great way to dip your toe in the water and try our entrepreneurship. A workshop that’s a little rapid idea generation and a little design-thinking, you’ll go back into the world looking at how you can make a difference (or even may just start something yourself!). Let your intelligence have FUN by channeling creativity into finding solutions hidden in challenge.

Mindset with the Social Experiment

Mindset training is the backbone of our capability building and the acceleration of High Performance. Uncover and understand your unconscious limiting belief system, patterns of behaviour and your core values so you can take action and ehance your unique leadership and changemaking!

Be a JEDI with AllySkills NZ

JEDI (Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion) The AllySkills NZ JEDI Workshop teaches simple actions people can take to use their privilege and influence to support those who are targets of systemic bias in their workplaces and communities. This includes women of all races, people of colour, people with disabilities, LGBTQIA+ folks, parents, all types of caregivers and people of different ages. Discover the power of ally actions || Learn how to be an effective ally || Know practical everyday actions you can implement to help create inclusive workplaces and communities.

Speakers

Bridget Watson | Trusting Vulnerability

An Otago grad and a Leadership Award alumni, Bridget (Bridge) is on a mission to make the world feel. She’s an emotional entrepreneur, authenticity adventurer and a whakapapa wayfinder. Intrigued? You should be e hoa.

Check em’ out: trustingvulnerability.co.nz

Hayley Pardoe | Otis Oat Milk

Hayley is a tOATal wizz at channelling the power of branding to make Papatūānuku feel good. Struggling to convince your flatties, whānau or self to make some susty conscious life decisions?? Let’s learn how to craft less pass-ag and more pass-YES group chat messages to shake it up!

Check em’ out: otisoatmilk.co.nz

Vivian Chandra | AllySkills

Tech champion by day, ally rallier always. Vivian utilises her love of technology to shift inequities at their root cause. What’s your passion and privilege and how can you channel it into being a powerful ally for people affected by systemic bias?

Check em’ out: allyskills.nz

Wajd El-Matary | Justice for Palestine

A story filled with activism, imposter syndrome, navigating bicultural backgrounds, and whānau. Wajd, a recovering people pleaser shows us how to bravely embrace our own complexity. We become powerful leaders the moment we embrace our own uniqueness.

Check em’ out: Wajd El-Matary

Jack Rainey | Everybody Eats

Scraps are friends ̶n̶o̶t̶ AND food! From connection with loved ones and planet, to social inequity and environmental mess, kai gets up to a lot! Jack’s here to sprinkle us with a story of happy bellies and bins.

Check em’ out: everybodyeats.nz