Organic leadership model where nature is teacher

Organic leadership model where nature is teacher: self help tools that nurture growth using Living Systems Thinking.

Extract from Tipu Ake Website:

We share the Tipu Ake ki te Ora Lifecycle – an easily applied, and action focused leadership model that exploits Kiwi style teamwork.

It provides new tools for organisations that wish to grow into dynamic living entities, rather than just behaving like machines. See our summary paper Living Systems Thinking – Leadership Tools for Growing Living Organisations and Communities that thrive in a world of complexity , also our paper on Lifelong Learning – Nature’s Way and the Tipu Ake Rugby Scrum team learning metaphors and lessons.

– Tipu Ake is an organic project / program model that helps us operate in a world of complexity, chaos, interdependency and ambiguity. It embraces international leadership model thinking; see supporting stories, feedback from users and Tipu Ake Blogs. It supports best practices for sustainability and management. (It maps onto the Cynefin Framework that illuminates the simple, complicated, complex, chaotic and disorder domains that life requires us to work across).

– It is a cyclic behavioural model that can help any innovative organisation, community, project, group, team, or even a family or individual that needs to make new things happen. It is at the the roots of lifelong learning.

– Tipu Ake is a form of Biomimicry – Learning to thrive in a world of complexity and inter-dependence by taking lessons from Nature in the Whirinaki Rainforest.

– It was inspired by the self-transformation stories of Te Whaiti School. Here a pro-active underemployed Maori community called on its own internal strength and traditional wisdom to grow its school from failure and imminent closure to the top of its class. See videoclip.

– Their unique processes were captured after the event as the Tipu Ake Lifecycle by a team of volunteers from Te Whaiti, the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and other NZ organisations. Student teams at AUT and other volunteers around the world continue to work together on a range of innovative projects to help them share it. The model was prototyped on pioneering workshops at AUT and is now part of Living Systems Thinking workshops delivered in New Zealand and alsewhere.

– The use of Tipu Ake is supported by stories, podcast interviews and blogsite, a downloadable videoclip library here, application case studies, introductory seminars, unique leadership retreats at Te Whaiti, application workshops, an organisational self-assessment tool, links – connectioNZ with partner organisations around the world, a DVD presentation and the Tipu Ake book collection held by the AUT library.

– Its full name is Tipu Ake ki te Ora (growing from within, ever upwards towards wellbeing). It is generously shared with the world, dedicated to the wellbeing of all its future grandchildrens. Anyone can download it, (including a Powerpoint presentation with French and Estonian translations).

– All intellectual property associated with Tipu Ake will continue to remain for all time at the place of its origin, Te Whaiti Nui-a-Toi. The children and people there are its Kaitiaki (Guardians). Acknowledgement is by koha (a gift in return based on its value to you).

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