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Broadening mind and heart

There’re two types of magic when you attend a conference: meeting new people to broaden your heart and listening to new speakers to broaden your minds.

There's two types of magic when you attend a conference: meeting new people to broaden your heart and listening to new speakers to broaden your minds. At Just Action 2019, we’ve been fortunate to have attracted speakers from a range of disciplines. They will offer a wide range of insights drawn from their research work, tips and tricks from their justice work on the ground, and more reflective conversations for those who like the conversational style.

For example, The Salvation Army’s national director for addictions services, Lynette Hutson, a social worker with long years of international practice under her belt, will be in conversation on “Love, the Operating System” with Rev Petra Zaleski, an Anglican vicar whose marvellous story of healing from addictions was recently chronicled here.

If you want to come away with new ‘tips and tricks’, we’ve got a series of practice-focussed workshops on topics like community organising. Jodi Hoare, who manages The Salvation Army’s Good Shop will talk to us about disrupting the status quo with her highly successful project, the Good Shop.

Just Action will also host writers and researchers who are leaders in their field. From Jay Ruka, author of the inspiring book, Huia Come Home to Dr Roshan Allpress, Principal of Laidlaw College to Dr Susan Healy who travels up and down the country educating New Zealanders about Treaty issues.

Altogether, our writers and researchers have written a total of (at least) thirty-six books – and that’s just the ones I’ve been able to track down. Since the conference will be about 15 hours over two day, that’s the equivalent of wisdom from two-and-a-half hours per book, probably enough to get you a master’s degree!!

Join us for Just Action at 92 Vivian Street, Wellington 6011 on Tue 1 to Wed 2 Oct 2019.

Find out more at the Just Action conference website. A ticket for the full two days priced at NZ$110.00 can be purchased here.

Here’s a flavour of those thirty-six books:

Simon Chapple

  • The Child Poverty Debate: Myths, Misconceptions and Misunderstandings
  • Child Poverty in New Zealand
  • Back to Work New Zealand: Improving the Re-employment Prospects of Displaced Workers
  • Subjective Well-being and Social Policy
  • Doing Better for Children

 

Jay Ruka

  • Huia Come Home

 

Māmari Stephens

  • He Papakupu Reo Ture: A Dictionary of Maori Legal Terms

 

Roshan Allpress

  • The Insect and the Buffalo: How the Story of the Bible Changes Everything
  • The Hare and the Tortoise: Learning to Pace Ourselves in a World Gone Mad

 

Susan Healy

  • Listen to the People of the Land
  • Ngāpuhi Speaks: He Wakaputanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi
  • A Modern State in its Relationship with a Tribally-based People: Democracy Belied in Aotearoa / New Zealand

 

Harold Hill

 

Chris Marshall

  • All Things Reconciled: Essays on Restorative Justice, Religious Violence and the Interpretation of Scripture
  • Compassionate Justice: An Interdisiciplinary Dialogue with Two Gospel Parables on Law, Crime, and Restorative Justice
  • The Little Book of Biblical Justice: A Fresh Approach to the Bible’s Teaching on Justice
  • Crowned with Glory and Honor: Human Rights in the Biblical Tradition
  • Beyond Retribution: A New Testament Vision for Justice, Crime and Punishment
  • Kingdom Come: The Kingdom of God in the Teaching of Jesus
  • Faith as a Theme in Mark’s Narrative

 

Mike O’Brien

 

Murdoch Stephens

 

Charles Waldegrave

  • A Universal Pension and Subsidised Housing: Is it a Panacea for an Older Population?
  • Report of the Measurement Review for a New Zealand Living Wage
  • Social and Economic Impacts of Housing Tenure
  • Bringing our Lights out From Under the Bushel: Practice and Research Insights that Inspire Policy Change
  • Pacific Perspectives on Ageing in New Zealand: Pacific-focussed Qualitative Research
  • Income, Assets, Poverty and Housing Tenure