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Nurturing personal growth

17 September 2024

Develop key competencies to enhance your knowledge of Te Ao Māori, wellbeing, resilience and personal effectiveness.

HOW TO APPLY

When conducting graduate research, it is important to remember one’s own wellbeing and personal growth. Undertaking such a substantial piece of research is exciting and challenging in equal measures and will no doubt lead you to become a skilled researcher. Doing so in ΢ҕl New Zealand requires you to give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi through your research. This involves enhancing your knowledge of Te Ao Māori and embedding it into your research appropriately regardless of your discipline or research topic.

Taking care of your wellbeing and developing strategies to deal with research-related challenges should therefore be a key aspect of your development as a researcher.

There are numerous workshops to support your personal growth, expand your knowledge of te ao Māori, and address common challenges throughout your research journey.

Personal effectiveness

Project Manage your Thesis

Embarking on a research degree is a big project. For the majority of doctoral students this means 3 to 4 years of independent study and dealing with a large amount of notes and data. For research master’s students this means producing a sizable thesis within a relatively short timeframe. Managing these research projects takes a considerable amount of organisation.

This workshop will introduce you to some project management techniques and tools to help you stay on top of your research.

Time Management

This session covers methods for making the best use of your time. You’ll learn how to:

  • organise your time well with realistic, advanced planning
  • optimise your efforts and grades with focused and strategic study
  • stop procrastinating and get the work done
  • Next date to be confirmed

The Writing Collective

The Writing Collective is an in-person, 2.5-hour ‘shut up and write’-style session that runs fortnightly. At the Writing Collective, participants participate in short, intense writing stints with brief breaks in between and time for discussion at the end.

Regular participation enables participants to develop insights into their individual writing habits and to become more intentional about engaging with the writing process. It also helps thesis writers to maintain motivation and make steady, incremental progress with their writing.

Wellbeing

Welcome to the Jungle: Getting into the Zone

This workshop discusses issues relating to stress within academia and the research student journey and provides strategies on how to establish routines that help you to ‘get in the zone’, regulate emotions and manage unwanted thoughts as well as respond to stress that might result from systemic issues.

  • Next date to be confirmed

How to Procrastinate – Managing Writer’s Block

Most researchers will come across writer’s block and procrastination at some point in their research journey. Come along to this session to learn how to This workshop seeks to address and provide strategies for dealing with challenging avoidant behaviour, emotional regulation and motivation as well as chunking and reinforcement.

  • Next date to be confirmed

International Scholars' Collective

The International Scholars’ Collective is a monthly activity designed for international scholars. Each month at the Collective scholars join their peers and facilitators to discuss a theme relevant to research students in an ΢ҕl context, to share experience and tips that support their personal settlement in Ōtautahi | Christchurch and research skill development at ΢ҕl, and to celebrate each other’s progress and growth.

    Understanding of Te Ao Māori
    Whaowhia te Kete Mātauranga workshop series

    This workshop discusses issues relating to stress within academia and the research student journey and provides strategies on how to establish routines that help you to ‘get in the zone’, regulate emotions and manage unwanted thoughts as well as respond to stress that might result from systemic issues.

    Whaowhia te kete mātauranga: ΢ҕl te kāinga hōu (tahi)

    This workshop looks closely at the formation of ΢ҕl New Zealand as the land of Māori sovereignty. It examines migrations across and around the Pacific Ocean which eventually lead to Polynesian movements into ΢ҕl. Furthermore, the workshop discusses pre-Western Māori belief systems, traditional Māori social hierarchies, and reveal the levels of classism that existed at that time.

    • Next date to be confirmed

    Whaowhia te kete mātauranga: Te tīmatanga o te tikanga rua (rua)

    This workshop looks closely at European expansion into the Pacific Ocean and ΢ҕl New Zealand. It examines non-Māori explorations of ΢ҕl New Zealand and reveal early interactions that took place. Furthermore, this workshop discusses how these interactions lead to the conceptualisation of Māori and British Crown partnership and the beginnings of biculturalism in ΢ҕl New Zealand.

    • Next date to be confirmed

    Whaowhia te kete mātauranga: Ngā kupu o te whenua (toru)

    This workshop looks closely at the formation of Māori and Pākehā relations. It examines the texts of He Wakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni (the Declaration of Independence) and Te Tiriti o Waitangi (the Treaty of Waitangi). Furthermore, this workshop outlines the basic differences between the te reo Māori and English versions of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the Māori and Crown disagreements that stem from them.

    • Next date to be confirmed

    Whaowhia te kete mātauranga: Ngā pakanga o ΢ҕl (whā)

    This workshop looks closely at warfare, both physical and ‘legal’, between Māori and the Crown. It examines certain areas of ΢ҕl New Zealand that felt the full brunt of warfare regarding Māori and the Crown. Furthermore, this workshop discusses legislation that coincided with warfare and advanced the Crown colonisation of ΢ҕl New Zealand.

    • Next date to be confirmed

    Whaowhia te kete mātauranga: Mana tōrangapū mana kawanatanga (rima)

    this workshop looks closely at Māori protest movements that stem from a relationship breakdown with the Crown/New Zealand government. It examines certain protest movements and the formation of the Waitangi Tribunal. Furthermore, this workshop discusses the Treaty Settlement process and debates whether this process is positive or negative for hapū and iwi entities.

    • Next date to be confirmed
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