Education for Change
How we work
Kōtare uses methods of participatory adult education to bring people together to share our experiences and build collective knowledge and clearer understandings of the world around us. We don’t offer ‘top-down’ or academic education but instead come together to analyse, envision and strategise for a better future through more effective organising and action. Kōtare also works with existing groups who are looking to strengthen skills and capacity in areas like facilitation, campaigning, organisational development and coalition building.
Who we work with
We work with individuals and organisations from a wide range of sectors and communities, and across generations. The one thing we ask when people join us in our educational work is that they have some commitment to a kaupapa of economic, social, Te Tiriti and ecological justice. Kōtare retains the right to choose with whom we work as we are not a generalised provider. Our purpose is to offer education that supports and inspires those who are working for justice-based change.
Connections
Some areas in which Kōtare works include:
Te Tiriti education and implementation; Tangata Tiriti responses to Matike Mai
Community organisations in areas including housing, poverty, beneficiary advocacy, disability rights, family support
Unions and workers’ rights
Water, sewage, mining, conservation rōpu
Climate justice
Food sovereignty
Women’s organisations
Young people
Intergenerational dialogue
Community economic development – economic alternatives
Artists and creatives working for justice-based change
Community-based researchers, historians and archivists interested in ‘telling our own stories’; learning from the past to inform organising of the future.
Upcoming workshops
Looking Ahead
Past workshops
Looking Back
Our education community at Kōtare
Most of our workshops are not publicly advertised. There is limited accommodation at our educational centre and even in the online environment we prefer to work in a participatory way with smaller groups rather than in a webinar or lecture format.
We send out pānui to online and residential workshops to everyone on the Kōtare mailing list, unless it is a programme designed to work with a specific organisation or network. If you would like to be on our contact list please reach out to us.