Action Education

What's Good Wesley?!

6/6/2017

Last week and this week Ramon and Ken have been busy running some awesome spoken word workshops with the year 9s and 10s at Wesley College. We love working with the Wesley students! Their passion, enthusiasm and creativity makes the drive totally worth it. We were lucky enough to work with the year 9s last year who are now year 10s, so we are stoked to catch up with those students again this year to continue working on their poetry and development.
This year is also the first year that Wesley College has participated in Word - The Front Line, and their team is bomb! Definitely a school to keep your eye on!

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Kaipatiki Spoken Word Workshop Series

5/22/2017

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A whirlwind week in Horowhenua

3/23/2017

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I arrived on Monday (March 20) and it's pretty much been go since arrival. A massive thank you to the Horowhenua District Council for hosting me and looking after me so well.

This week has been huge and varied, with a full five days of workshops, training and presentations.

Things kicked off with a series of capacity building workshops for local services and youth workers. We focused on the youth work tool kit: practical skills, activities and resources to use on a daily basis. We also spent some quality time on theory, looking at the Youth Development Strategy Aotearoa.

It was a joy to connect with Te Takare Youth Space and support them in their exploration of vision, values and ways of working with one another.

I ran a similar workshop with the Horowhenua District Youth Council who are very much in the forming stages as a group, which is always an exciting time to observe as a facilitator.

The last two days of the trip I have been presenting alongside Richie Hardcore at a number of schools in the area as part of the Hardcore Horowhenua initiative. Presenting to full assemblies has been a great mix of healthy nerves and excitement, and the students have been real cool.

Hardcore Horowhenua is an initiative of the Rethink Teen Drinking and Social Supply Committee for the Horowhenua region. Our presentations explored positive choices around alcohol, identifying your passion and following it, and not being afraid to be different (in fact, being proud of it!) through personal stories and experiences.

Of course, it would not be a week in the life of anyone at Action Ed without some poetry. I ran an open spoken word workshop at Te Takare Youth Space, and had an awesome mix of people come through.

I have been blown away by the young people I have connected with and also the passion that I have witnessed from teachers, principals and community/youth workers for uplifting their young people and providing platforms, conversations and spaces for them to thrive. It is a real honour to be welcomed into communities to meaningfully engage in korero which put young people at the centre. It has been dope!!!

Kia ora, Horowhenua! Be back soon.

- Ramon

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St Cuths and Mangere Bridge School

3/13/2017

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Earlier this year Action Education ran leadership development and team building workshops with a group of students from St Cuthberts College. They then helped us to facilitate a day of poetry at Mangere Bridge School with the year 5 and 6 classes. Some of the girls from St Cuths attended Mangere Bridge School when they were younger, and it was great to see them come back as leaders and giving back to their community. Action Education received an amazing powhiri from the students, and together with the leadership group from St Cuths we facilitated an awesome day with 120 students who turned out to be very talented poets.