Stories & Learning's

Te Whaiti School Stories started by Ruth
Wynyard and Karen Laugesen 2002 AUT Communications Graduate
volunteers who spent three days interviewing school
and community members over the Tipu Ake launch Weekend
17-18 Nov 2001. Seen here interviewing the principal
Genevieve Doherty. Many photos by volunteer David Somerfield.
New Tools for Growing Living Organisations and Communities (12 page .pdf Nov 2006)
An overview of Tipu Ake - some of the world's first "Systems Thinking"application tools that help teams address the challenges of our fast changing world of complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity.
Lifelong Learning - Nature's Way (8 page .pdf August 2007 - written for NZ Playcentre Mag)
Tipu Ake was defined as a Leadership Model. This paper goes back to the school stories and values and remaps Tipu Ake as a organic model for learning and growth
Thinking
Beyond just Sustainabilty (How Tipu Ake and kaitiakianga
concepts can help - Mar03)
Andree Mathieu a physicist, wriiter, environmentalist
and Natural Step presenter shows how Tipu Ake and Kaitiakitanga
values can support and extend current sustainability
models and thinking.
Blue
skies through the trees: (Project Management
application - April 2003)
A story that takes leadership lessons
from the school experience, relating Tipu Ake to conventional
project management, change management and organisational
transformation thinking. By Peter Goldsbury.
Whirinaki
Bush Wisdom (Indigenous Maori worldview
- Jan 2002)
A story of the schools success from a Maori values and
wisdom perspective. By Ruth Wynyard
Growing
the Future: (Tipu Ake lifecycle - Feb
2002)
Tipu Ake - A leadership framework for innovative organisations
A story that translates the school's process into the
Tipu Ake Model so others can use it to help them take
their future into their own hands. By Karen Laugesen
For more information
download the full Tipu Ake
model.
A
Class Act: (School management -Mar 2002)
How an isolated school showed the way forward to the
knowledge economy:
A story that describes the school transformation process.
By Ruth Wynyard and Karen Laugesen.
Leadership
- Growing Tomorrow's Schools Today (Oral history
of school transformation - 2002)
How did the Te Whaiti School go about
transforming itself ? Members of the school tell it
in their own words.
Vision,
Verbs and Tipu Ake - (Potent program
/project leadership tools for growing living organisations
- Oct 2004..5)
An expansion on the paper on Tipu Ake
presented at the Project Management Institute Global
Forum, Anahiem 2004, to share it as a new set of tools
and for Living Organisations. (See now Tools for Growing Living Organations (Above)
The
Tipu Ake Lifecycle - A Journey ( A Case Study -
2003)
A case study for students in management,
compiled by Ross Milne, Lecturer in Management , Auckland
University of Technology
Back
to nature way to herd cats (Tipu Ake leadership
in organisations - Jan 2002)
NZ Herald writer, Vicki Jayne looks to
life and death in nature through Tipu Ake - to find
a new way to get things done in organisations
( NZ Herald Jan 16 2002)
Translations:
(Now available in French)
Supporting
Stories: (Leadership, organic
models, complexity, chaos etc)
How Tipu Ake relates to some of the world's
freshest living systems thinking on leadership, teamwork,
management and organisational development. Pointers to stories by Fritjof Capra, Donella Meadows, Elsabet Sahtouris, Jeanette Armstrong, Roger Booth, Eileen Clegg, Donna Robbins, Margaret
Wheatley, Martin Luther King and many others
Application Case Studies
What
users have said: (Feedback)
Comments from people exposed to Tipu Ake
thinking, who are using it in their organisations.
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