community – Onewa Christian Community

Successful repair cafés

Next repair café will be on Saturday 27 July, 10.30 am to 1.00 pm. See you there! Thanks to all our superb volunteers who work so generously at the Birkenhead repair cafés. We hold one every couple of months. Fixers, advisers from a range of community groups, church members who make morning tea and run […]

Great workshops!

In April, Onewa Christian Community hosted two excellent workshops as part of the series on better conversations and restorative thinking. Talking about emotions Baruk Jacob facilitated a session using the Emotional Culture Deck as a conversation starter. Participants selected words that enabled them to identify pleasant and unpleasant emotions that they were comfortable discussing with […]

Community spirit abounds

On 16-17 March, we enjoyed lots of community engagement. The Birkenhead repair café attracted just over 70 items for repair. Not all could be fixed, but people received advice on how to repair or dispose of their items. Of course, there many very successful fixes, including to the cutest little ornament of a photographer using […]

Better conversations update

Read our first newsletter on Better conversations – restorative thinking and action. This gives a background to the initiative and invites you to get involved. You may download it also – which might be necessary to view the newsletter on a tablet or phone. Follow the links in the newsletter to get more background info. […]

We were in Christmas party mode

What a fun few days as we counted down to Christmas! From our conversations workshop on 6 December, we headed into the Northcote Christmas craft afternoon on 8 December. That included afternoon tea. Then on to the last mainly music session for the year (presents and food) and the Thursday group lunch. Thursday group is […]

Navigating challenging conversations

On 6 December we hosted another of our restorative thinking workshops, this one a bespoke session entitled ‘Navigating Challenging Conversations.’ The presenter was Erica Fairbank. Once again, a diverse range of people attended and generously brought their experience and spirit of enquiry to the occasion. This hands-on workshop encouraged conversations and sharing. It covered topics […]

Restorative thinking workshop

On 20 October, a diverse group of 22 people gathered for a four-hour workshop hosted by Greg Morgan (Onewa Christian Community) and kindly supported by ANCAD. Meeting costs were met from a grant Onewa Christian Community received from the Justice-Compassion Trust. The workshop was a chance to get a discussion going and to test possibilities […]

Co-created ageing research

At our community breakfast on 15 October, Professor Burholt spoke about a new centre at the University of Auckland that has the mission to focus on developing co-created ageing research. Research must address the needs and aspirations of older people for improved health, wellbeing and human flourishing. Involving older people in the research at every […]

‘It’s a small world’ celebrated

The annual floral affair fundraiser on 14 October again drew an appreciative audience. The these this year was ‘It’s a small world.’ Guests enjoyed spring-time floral displays, a concert and high tea. Thanks to everyone who supported the parish, including all who provided the catering, the flowers, the music, hospitality and a wonderful social time. […]

Valuing what we value

Professor Niki Harré’s talk on Values and what we really care about (on 7 September) began with a game. The people in the room thought quietly and then contributed three things they care about very much: ‘in any dimension – an emotion, relationship, part of the natural world, a quality, an object.’ People read these […]

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