Born into war in Herat, Afghanistan, by the age of 15 Tariq Habibyar was teaching young girls English and literacy courses in secret while living under the extremist Taliban. The educator philanthropist and founder of the Aida Children’s Fund spoke at Ko Awatea on March 7th about his passion for education. Mr Habibyar credits his…
Counties Manukau Health staff gathered at Ko Awatea on February 29th to hear visiting leadership expert Mike Wagner, executive director of The Advisory Board, present a workshop on human dynamics. Human dynamics is about the way people interact and work together. Fifty-two staff attended the workshop, which explored the negative and positive extremes of human…
A lunchtime learning session with Deb Filler Laughter is the best healer – just ask Deb Filler. The Jewish comedienne presented a lunchtime learning session to a packed room at Ko Awatea on Wednesday 18 February, and soon had Counties staff laughing with her hilarious stories and politically incorrect jokes. But behind the humour is…
Ko Awatea is delighted to welcome Professor Su Maddock, who will present a lunchtime learning session at Ko Awatea Centre entitled Mental Health Innovation in the UK: Mainstreaming a Personalised, User-based and Co-designed Approach to Mental Health Recovery on 24 February. Professor Maddock’s presentation will convey the chronology of mental health recovery interventions and offer…
As part of the Nursing and Midwifery celebrations in the first week of May, the Pacific Nursing and Midwifery Leaders Group held the second Talanoa networking forum for this year at Ko Awatea. Talanoa was attended by over 80 health professionals – doctors, medical students, nurses, nursing students, social workers, social worker students and educators.…
In partnership with IHI, Ko Awatea facilitated the Innovation Programme last week, 14th & 15th March. Don Goldmann and Andrea Kabcenell were the programme facilitators. Seven organisations were represented. This included a large group from Ko Awatea & CM Health, a group of four from Monash Innovation & Quality, Southern Health, Australia, together with attendees…
Written by Martin Marshall, Lead for Improvement Science London and Professor of Healthcare Improvement at UCL. First posted on Improvement Science London on July 18, 2012. The English language is a fascinating thing; powerful in the hands of Shakespeare and Yeats, inadequate in the hands of, well, me. An uncomfortable light has been shone on…
Ko Awatea had the pleasure of hosting Martin Marshall, from UCL a Professor of Healthcare Improvement and lead for Improvement Science London. Martin started off his day at Ko Awatea with a tour of the Centre before giving a lunchtime Brown Bag session for staff on “What is Improvement Science?” Martin joined UCL in January…
“Creative Thinking to Develop Change” – Brandon Bennett from Ko Awatea on Vimeo. I have always admired creative people – they seem to have a knack for thinking outside the square and coming up with creative ideas and solution – usually on the spot. So what makes some people more creative than others and what…
