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Fireside.rs Workshop - Gathering humans effectively

Exploring gathering humans effectively with fireside.rs

Goodlife Collective is stoked to be hosting this New Zealand first! And to be collaborating with one of Aotearoa's most inspiring creative producers, who's also just a lovely human ...

Join internationally-renowned (& Welly legend!) creative producer DK, founder of fireside.rs which aims to unlock creative productivity by gathering humans effectively, for this journey through the shapes and ways that people converge, and deepen your confidence in designing purposeful human learning experiences.

A guided 90mins workshop exploring the array of models and shapes curated from the 100+ research findings with the goal of experiencing the following questions:

  • what happens when we uncover the natural formats of being in groups and the reasons behind them?
  • where are the parameters and elements to engender connection, conversation plus collaboration?
  • when should different meeting formats be utilised and aspects like proximity / environmental factors be considered?
  • who should be caring how we assemble others and lead in uncovering rooted biases?
  • why does the shape of sitting and being together have an impact on how we act, our attention and how we belong?
  • how do we intentionally apply the essence of being human to human beings?

Through immersive activations and in an environment of kindness and curiosity, participants will experience a direct understanding of a variety of assembly forms and how they impact creative / productive outcomes.

Sign up here

ABOUT DK:

As a Creative Producer, DK has been crafting delicious learning experience for clients from large corporates to major government departments. He was the decade long ex-licensee of TEDxWellington / TEDxWellingtonWomen. In 2017 he founded the Creative Leadership NZ conference which connects visionary humans into a creative community to solve contemporary challenges, as well as the founder of unique video long-form podcast series, Creative Welly, courageous conversations with bold humans.

A 20-year long seasoned international facilitator and presenter, DK previously was the founder of MediaSnackers and through it has over a decade of working in the social media space consulting / delivering training on five continents to a cross-sector range of clients from UNICEF, Gates Foundation, BBC, Ubisoft, Hasbro plus spent time as a social media manager for a national education company in NZ.

DK is also a Speaker Coach, working with CEO’s and senior executives plus random ex-All Blacks, Olympians and Dame thrown into the mix. He delivers one-to-one consults plus internal masterclass sessions for select clients also. DK also MC’s and facilitates online events and sessions for brands globally plus recently has authored ‘Speaking With Purpose: A guide to delivering impressive presentations!‘ (inspired by his recent ‘The public speaking lesson you never had’ TEDx talk which has over one million views in two years and is featured on ted.com—see below).

He also established Collider, a city-wide program focused on transforming Wellington into an internationally recognised Smart Capital (with 200 events in 14 months with over 5000 attendees).

More information via the about page.

REFERENCES

https://events.humanitix.com/opportunities-in-unraveling

As a Creative Producer, DK has been crafting delicious learning experience for clients from large corporates to major government departments. He was the decade long ex-licensee of TEDxWellington / TEDxWellingtonWomen. In 2017 he founded the Creative Leadership NZ conference which connects visionary humans into a creative community to solve contemporary challenges, as well as the founder of unique video long-form podcast series, Creative Welly, courageous conversations with bold humans. A 20-year long seasoned international facilitator and presenter, DK previously was the founder of MediaSnackers and through it has over a decade of working in the social media space consulting / delivering training on five continents to a cross-sector range of clients from UNICEF, Gates Foundation, BBC, Ubisoft, Hasbro plus spent time as a social media manager for a national education company in NZ. DK is also a Speaker Coach, working with CEO’s and senior executives plus random ex-All Blacks, Olympians and Dame thrown into the mix. He delivers one-to-one consults plus internal masterclass sessions for select clients also. DK also MC’s and facilitates online events and sessions for brands globally plus recently has authored ‘Speaking With Purpose: A guide to delivering impressive presentations!‘ (inspired by his recent ‘The public speaking lesson you never had’ TEDx talk which has over one million views in two years and is featured on ted.com—see below). He also established Collider, a city-wide program focused on transforming Wellington into an internationally recognised Smart Capital (with 200 events in 14 months with over 5000 attendees).

Fireside.rs Workshop - Gathering humans effectively

Exploring gathering humans effectively with fireside.rs

Goodlife Collective is stoked to be hosting this New Zealand first! And to be collaborating with one of Aotearoa's most inspiring creative producers, who's also just a lovely human ...

Join internationally-renowned (& Welly legend!) creative producer DK, founder of fireside.rs which aims to unlock creative productivity by gathering humans effectively, for this journey through the shapes and ways that people converge, and deepen your confidence in designing purposeful human learning experiences.

A guided 90mins workshop exploring the array of models and shapes curated from the 100+ research findings with the goal of experiencing the following questions:

  • what happens when we uncover the natural formats of being in groups and the reasons behind them?
  • where are the parameters and elements to engender connection, conversation plus collaboration?
  • when should different meeting formats be utilised and aspects like proximity / environmental factors be considered?
  • who should be caring how we assemble others and lead in uncovering rooted biases?
  • why does the shape of sitting and being together have an impact on how we act, our attention and how we belong?
  • how do we intentionally apply the essence of being human to human beings?

Through immersive activations and in an environment of kindness and curiosity, participants will experience a direct understanding of a variety of assembly forms and how they impact creative / productive outcomes.

Sign up here

ABOUT DK:

As a Creative Producer, DK has been crafting delicious learning experience for clients from large corporates to major government departments. He was the decade long ex-licensee of TEDxWellington / TEDxWellingtonWomen. In 2017 he founded the Creative Leadership NZ conference which connects visionary humans into a creative community to solve contemporary challenges, as well as the founder of unique video long-form podcast series, Creative Welly, courageous conversations with bold humans.

A 20-year long seasoned international facilitator and presenter, DK previously was the founder of MediaSnackers and through it has over a decade of working in the social media space consulting / delivering training on five continents to a cross-sector range of clients from UNICEF, Gates Foundation, BBC, Ubisoft, Hasbro plus spent time as a social media manager for a national education company in NZ.

DK is also a Speaker Coach, working with CEO’s and senior executives plus random ex-All Blacks, Olympians and Dame thrown into the mix. He delivers one-to-one consults plus internal masterclass sessions for select clients also. DK also MC’s and facilitates online events and sessions for brands globally plus recently has authored ‘Speaking With Purpose: A guide to delivering impressive presentations!‘ (inspired by his recent ‘The public speaking lesson you never had’ TEDx talk which has over one million views in two years and is featured on ted.com—see below).

He also established Collider, a city-wide program focused on transforming Wellington into an internationally recognised Smart Capital (with 200 events in 14 months with over 5000 attendees).

More information via the about page.

As a Creative Producer, DK has been crafting delicious learning experience for clients from large corporates to major government departments. He was the decade long ex-licensee of TEDxWellington / TEDxWellingtonWomen. In 2017 he founded the Creative Leadership NZ conference which connects visionary humans into a creative community to solve contemporary challenges, as well as the founder of unique video long-form podcast series, Creative Welly, courageous conversations with bold humans. A 20-year long seasoned international facilitator and presenter, DK previously was the founder of MediaSnackers and through it has over a decade of working in the social media space consulting / delivering training on five continents to a cross-sector range of clients from UNICEF, Gates Foundation, BBC, Ubisoft, Hasbro plus spent time as a social media manager for a national education company in NZ. DK is also a Speaker Coach, working with CEO’s and senior executives plus random ex-All Blacks, Olympians and Dame thrown into the mix. He delivers one-to-one consults plus internal masterclass sessions for select clients also. DK also MC’s and facilitates online events and sessions for brands globally plus recently has authored ‘Speaking With Purpose: A guide to delivering impressive presentations!‘ (inspired by his recent ‘The public speaking lesson you never had’ TEDx talk which has over one million views in two years and is featured on ted.com—see below). He also established Collider, a city-wide program focused on transforming Wellington into an internationally recognised Smart Capital (with 200 events in 14 months with over 5000 attendees).

Fireside.rs Workshop - Gathering humans effectively

Exploring gathering humans effectively with fireside.rs

Goodlife Collective is stoked to be hosting this New Zealand first! And to be collaborating with one of Aotearoa's most inspiring creative producers, who's also just a lovely human ...

Join internationally-renowned (& Welly legend!) creative producer DK, founder of fireside.rs which aims to unlock creative productivity by gathering humans effectively, for this journey through the shapes and ways that people converge, and deepen your confidence in designing purposeful human learning experiences.

A guided 90mins workshop exploring the array of models and shapes curated from the 100+ research findings with the goal of experiencing the following questions:

  • what happens when we uncover the natural formats of being in groups and the reasons behind them?
  • where are the parameters and elements to engender connection, conversation plus collaboration?
  • when should different meeting formats be utilised and aspects like proximity / environmental factors be considered?
  • who should be caring how we assemble others and lead in uncovering rooted biases?
  • why does the shape of sitting and being together have an impact on how we act, our attention and how we belong?
  • how do we intentionally apply the essence of being human to human beings?

Through immersive activations and in an environment of kindness and curiosity, participants will experience a direct understanding of a variety of assembly forms and how they impact creative / productive outcomes.

Sign up here

ABOUT DK:

As a Creative Producer, DK has been crafting delicious learning experience for clients from large corporates to major government departments. He was the decade long ex-licensee of TEDxWellington / TEDxWellingtonWomen. In 2017 he founded the Creative Leadership NZ conference which connects visionary humans into a creative community to solve contemporary challenges, as well as the founder of unique video long-form podcast series, Creative Welly, courageous conversations with bold humans.

A 20-year long seasoned international facilitator and presenter, DK previously was the founder of MediaSnackers and through it has over a decade of working in the social media space consulting / delivering training on five continents to a cross-sector range of clients from UNICEF, Gates Foundation, BBC, Ubisoft, Hasbro plus spent time as a social media manager for a national education company in NZ.

DK is also a Speaker Coach, working with CEO’s and senior executives plus random ex-All Blacks, Olympians and Dame thrown into the mix. He delivers one-to-one consults plus internal masterclass sessions for select clients also. DK also MC’s and facilitates online events and sessions for brands globally plus recently has authored ‘Speaking With Purpose: A guide to delivering impressive presentations!‘ (inspired by his recent ‘The public speaking lesson you never had’ TEDx talk which has over one million views in two years and is featured on ted.com—see below).

He also established Collider, a city-wide program focused on transforming Wellington into an internationally recognised Smart Capital (with 200 events in 14 months with over 5000 attendees).

More information via the about page.

Fireside.rs Workshop - Gathering humans effectively

As a Creative Producer, DK has been crafting delicious learning experience for clients from large corporates to major government departments. He was the decade long ex-licensee of TEDxWellington / TEDxWellingtonWomen. In 2017 he founded the Creative Leadership NZ conference which connects visionary humans into a creative community to solve contemporary challenges, as well as the founder of unique video long-form podcast series, Creative Welly, courageous conversations with bold humans. A 20-year long seasoned international facilitator and presenter, DK previously was the founder of MediaSnackers and through it has over a decade of working in the social media space consulting / delivering training on five continents to a cross-sector range of clients from UNICEF, Gates Foundation, BBC, Ubisoft, Hasbro plus spent time as a social media manager for a national education company in NZ. DK is also a Speaker Coach, working with CEO’s and senior executives plus random ex-All Blacks, Olympians and Dame thrown into the mix. He delivers one-to-one consults plus internal masterclass sessions for select clients also. DK also MC’s and facilitates online events and sessions for brands globally plus recently has authored ‘Speaking With Purpose: A guide to delivering impressive presentations!‘ (inspired by his recent ‘The public speaking lesson you never had’ TEDx talk which has over one million views in two years and is featured on ted.com—see below). He also established Collider, a city-wide program focused on transforming Wellington into an internationally recognised Smart Capital (with 200 events in 14 months with over 5000 attendees).

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Whakarongo

Why is poetry making such a huge come-back? I think it is because our souls need more than the shallow to absent meaning-making of mainstream media. Poems are a reminder of what we hold within us. I am honoured to feature this poem by Dr Art Nahill. How did I come to connect with Ant? It goes back to a conversation with a wonderful, wise wahine, Aphra Green. She suggested Dr Glenn Colquhoun as a potential speaker for a Goodlife event, to speak of his book, 'Holding the ACEs'. We did host that event, which you can read about elsewhere on this website. What a humbling reminder Glenn's talk was. You might even describe him as a bit of a, 'Gabor Mate of Aotearoa'. At his youth health clinic in Levin, he continuously, courageously, humbly, painfully - turns towards what so many of us want to - and have the privilege to - just turn away from. But, when we do, we all keep this world small, we perpetuate the disconnection that erodes our collective potential. He reminded us that, 'we need to stop growling each other. To stop pointing the finger of blame at other parts of the system, and turn our attention toward what we CAN do. We need to WITNESS. We can all make a difference if we choose. It opened something in the hearts of everyone there, we held space for something deeply vulnerable. It melted away performative public personas and we shared feelings, childhood stories, and felt the healing of being witnessed in those stories. Just coming together in a group, has a magical power unto itself. And we acknowledged ofcourse who was missing from that room. Which is something I'd like to address in 2026. Glenn shared with us that he was organising a 'hikoi for health' with his friend, fellow medical doctor and poet, Dr Art Nahill. And that is how I connected with Art and how his poetry came to be here.

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