One minute with Katherine Peet
We are all in the Waka together as all sectors and groups have a role to play in creating a healthier Greater Christchurch! Meet some of the signatories who are with us in the Waka in our new One Minute With segment.
Email healthychristchurch[at]cdhb.health.nz if you would like to be featured in our One Minute With segment for Waka Toa Ora signatories.
Let's meet Katherine Peet...
What does your organisation do and what’s your role there?
My Waka Toa Ora involvement is from my Co-Chair role in One Voice Te Reo Kōtahi (OVTRK).
OVTRK began gathering in July 2010 to speak from (not for) Third Sector Organisations (TSOs) across the ‘four wellbeings’. We called ourselves ‘Third’ Sector because we were sick of being non-government, not-for-profit, non-profit!
All the TSOs who have put themselves on the OVTRK Registry commit to a Treaty-based approach and my other main organising role in Network Waitangi Ōtautahi (NWO) is a good match.
My OVTRK role is to organise next steps with others who gather six-weekly to share news from the Sector. Anyone from a TSO on the OVTRK Register is welcome (tsovoices[at]gmail.com).
Find out more about One Voice Te Reo Kōtahi.
What do you enjoy most about your mahi or working for your organisation?
Connecting with others about what really matters for the future and what new, non-violent ways of working can be found to work together for that future.
What project have you been a part of at your organisation that you’re most proud of?
I am pleased that by being able to provide a space which upholds the OVTRK kaupapa people in TSOs have continued to share ways forward. The gatherings have given encouragement for this mahi and for the people committed to it to be recognised and respected – even if not funded.
Who inspires you in your mahi?
Ngoi Pewhairangi, Pieter de Bres, Myles Horton, Moana Jackson, Per Himmelstrup, Paulo Freire and many other adult educators working in different contexts on addressing societal “needs”. Changing those involved from being objects at the mercy of events to being subjects that create their own history together.
Share a book, talk, training or podcast that has influenced your professional development
Ooo that is hard!
Books:
- We Make the Road by Walking – Conversations on Education and Social Change by Myles Horton and Paulo Freire.
- Real Freedom For All – or what, if anything, justifies capitalism by Philippe van Parijs.
UNESCO Adult Education conferences - Paris in 1985 and Hamburg in 1997.
Training:
- Socio-Structural Analysis workshop with INODEP.
- Hui Whakamana Tiriti set up before Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu was established.
What is your favourite space or place in Waitaha, and why?
The dining room table at my home – with people eating and talking together looking out at the beautiful view of the alps and the sweep of Pegasus Bay with signs of the braided Waimakairiri river emerging in to Moananui a Kiwa. It transports me to the spaces in the bush, the wide valleys and near the tops of maunga where I replenish myself and hope for a better future than the world seems currently headed for.