Ground-breaking leadership development
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| Ruku Ao Ruku Ao is a one-year, part-time, programme taught at Toi Whakaari, Manutuke Marae and in participants’ own contexts. The focus is on working with groups – learning how to teach a group or lead a group to work powerfully with its own potential. Ruku = to dive into / to harvest / to gather together / to let oneself fall / to bind together into Ao = a dawn / a new light / new opportunities Toi Whakaari has been developing innovative and intuitive stage and screen professionals for nearly 50 years. Since 2014, Toi has been working with emerging leaders in the government, non-profit and private sectors on an innovative and ground-breaking leadership development programme using frameworks from Te Ao Māori and Toi Whakaari’s unique approach to elite arts training. “There is no comparison between Ruku Ao and other leadership development programmes; the degree of reflection on how leaders present at work, and how you learn from each other, is unmatched.” Jo – Treasury
“Ruku Ao has awoken a ‘sleeping giant’ in me. It has woken up my sense of self and worth, enabling me to identify my strengths, value and what I can offer.” Naima – MBIE “These processes (tikanga) provide a way of connecting with people, understanding others’ context and perspectives; and that we are all human, fearful and vulnerable. Connecting in these ways, allows for the conversations that we need to have, to get the better outcomes that we are all seeking for New Zealanders.” Gus – MBIE What is Ruku Ao? Ruku Ao is a collaborative leadership initiative. Ruku Ao enables leaders to deliver on the complex challenges of our time. It is a learning-by-doing programme that leverages across sectors and across paradigms. Ruku Ao builds capacity by leveraging difference and diversity. It is a uniquely New Zealand response to our cultural context. The solutions to many of today’s and future leadership challenges lie in creating and achieving collaboration. Globally, leadership thinking is beginning to focus more strongly on: • The importance of teams of leaders • Leading effectively across boundaries • Creative alliances that build the emotional intelligence of groups Ruku Ao is working to deliver on these goals with a powerfully aligned New Zealand response. This centres around creating learning experiences that focus less on theory and more on fostering curiosity, courage, adaptiveness, self-awareness and the concrete application of better ways to work with groups.
How? Ruku Ao is deeply experiential and collaborative. Participants learn from observing, leading each other and designing changes in their own environments. Sessions are staggered between February and November each year. The process blends three main elements. • Windowing in: Participants look into the process used to build a highly engaged collaborative culture. This is done by visiting Toi Whakaari and Manatuke Marae, the source of these frames. This phase is enquiry based. There is no homework or preparation. Participants learn how these frames drive increased connection, meaning and commitment; to task, purpose and role. • Heat Experiences: Giving participants opportunities to practice their leadership in live moments and gain coaching. This happens in large and small group settings. Participants learn to see and leverage their context in new ways. • Reflection and application: Through feedback, self-directed learning and application in the workplace. Marae frames are used throughout, harnessing the power of New Zealand’s unique cultural context, and building stronger connectivity between participants and their intrinsic motivations. We grow a capacity, Ao (the new), to tolerate the Pō (the dark): the not-knowing, the ambiguous, the resistance, the doubt, the confusion. “Ruku Ao has reactivated my ability to respond more fully, by drawing on my whole self and building collectively and supportively with others, rather than compartmentalising or focusing on my own immediate interests or piece of the work.” Jinny – Institute of Environmental Science and Research
For organisations Ruku Ao builds small networks of high-trust relationships that support more effective distributed leadership. It creates a strong sense of community and identity in leaders. They begin to bring more of their real potential and difference to their leadership. They are facing the exciting challenge of what it means to create meaningful and authentic change in their settings. This increases their capacity as leaders — less than a year after completing Ruku Ao, 70% of the 2014 participants were holding positions of greater responsibility. Improved confidence in complexity • Comfort with ambiguity and situations that are outside the comfort zone • Less attached to perfection • Deeper understanding of co-leadership • More personal courage; more trusting of intuition • Skills to design small innovative experiments More astute in group settings • Able to plan and lead more purposeful group activity • Improved ability to ‘read the room’ • Improved listening skills • Greater responsibility for the health of the group • A capacity to stay ‘live’ and make meeting dynamic • Bring whole selves to further the work of the group • Less reliant on paper—more present
Raised cultural intelligence • Ability to translate across very different contexts • Seeing potential to build bridges between cultures and people • Building inclusive cultures to improve productivity • Staying aligned and steady in the face of differentness • Greater understanding marae frames and more appropriate application Greater personal enterprise • See new possibilities for personal impact • Re-connect to intrinsic motivators • Warm up to taking on bigger challenges • Initiating creative solutions for teams • Greater capacity to challenge others to step up • Being ‘real’ and connected to self • More skilled at courageous conversations For individuals, skills are deepened in four key areas “Ruku Ao is without doubt the most valuable ‘training’ experience that I have had through any workplace, ever, hands down.” — Senior Policy Analyst
Practicalities The programme begins in mid-February and ends in mid-November. It is open to all leaders and aspiring leaders. Ruku Ao suits people who: • Understand the challenges of leading across boundaries • Are curious about finding new ways to solve complex challenges • Are prepared to be vulnerable and work in the unknown • Are willing to reassess some previously held ideas about leadership • Want to create tangible differences in their settings • Are prepared to position themselves not as experts, but as learners • Are wanting to find better ways of approaching regional or place-based development Time investment Participants should allow an average of 3–6 hours per month for the duration of the programme. Workshops are held at Toi Whakaari as well as in participating organisations. In addition, there are three immersive workshops at Manutuke in Gisborne (one of four days and two of two days). Financial investment Single participant $11,900 Group of three $35,000 Group of five $57,000 Application process Admission to the programme is based on interview and personal statement. Email rukuao@toiwhakaari.ac.nz to find out more. Photos by Philip Merr tion by paperminx.co.nz At Toi Whakaari, we value: Insight: Artists see. They see the situation. They see the challenge. They see what they need to change; both in themselves and in their approach to that challenge. Gifting/Manaaki: We see artists as gift givers. It’s the contribution that counts, not the scale. It’s the act of gifting that counts, not the position from which the gift is given. Completion: Getting tasks done on time, meeting our commitments as agreed, to the highest standard achievable, is essential in an industry where each practitioner depends on the work of others. Sustainability: It is the ability to keep contributing that counts. We develop and implement systems that enable our teaching, delivery and learning to be ongoing and life-giving. Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini My strength is not mine alone, it comes from the collective/group Ko ia kāhore nei i rapu, tē kitea He who does not seek, will not find Undergraduate Courses: • Bachelor of Design (Stage and Screen) • Bachelor of Performing Arts (Acting) • Bachelor of Performing Arts (Management) • NZ Diploma in Costume Construction • NZ Diploma in Scenic Construction & Properties Board of Trustees Tim Walker (Chair) Simon Bennett Briony Ellis John Fokerd Brad Jackson Brian King Christian Penny Whetu Silver Te Whaea: National Dance & Drama Centre 11 Hutchison Road, Newtown Wellington, New Zealand PO BOX 7146, Newtown Wellington 6242 Phone +64 4 381 9251 Fax +64 6 389 4996 drama@toiwhakaari.ac.nz toiwhakaari.ac.nz Follow us @toiwhakaari Toi Whakaari: NZ Drama School is a Registered Charity — CC20345
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