Aotearoa Catchment Extension

This module gives an overview of where freshwater management is at the moment in Aotearoa, as well as a practical look into the different facets of the work that catchment groups undertake. For our online workshops, we will be working with experts from around the country, including how to work with funders.

Our strategic leadership module was voted as one of the most useful and informative from our first round of ACE. We bring together two great presenters Tony Watson and Amy McLean who have both written the online module and will present the online workshops, blending essential strategic leadership skills with learnings on how to build authentic relationships with stakeholders, all while ensuring you are looking after yourself too!

Integrated Farm to Catchment Scale Planning – a huge topic and one that will work to follow whatever changes come our way in the future reforms of the RMA, while also looking at how farm planning on individual farms come together to form a larger catchment plan. Our resident planning expert Sarah Dudin will take you through a series of workshops with special guests, for this rurally-focussed module.

Continuing on from module three, this dovetails beautifully into our GMP, Mitigation Tools and Technology module. We take an indepth look into mapping and, and the tools available to catchment groups and individuals to support good management practices on farm, lifestyle blocks and the wider catchment. Our expert Craig Simpson will host the onlne workshops, with special guests covering a range of topics within this module and answering your questions as we go!

How do you know where you are going if you don’t know where you have come from? How can you change people’s perceptions, if you don’t know what they are to begin with?  We work through a range of tools and information to show you how to monitor and evaluate your work – and also how to use this information to work with funders and more.

communications and engagement expert Lee Cowan to finish the programme with a bang. An energetic and fresh take on engagement and how to use communication tools to gain the coverage or awareness you want. Backed by facts and figures, social media do’s don’t and anecdotes, the powers of influence and so much more, you want to be part of this!