Digital Native or Digital Colonized?
The phrase "digital native" has evolved pretty effortlessly into the common lexicon in the last five years, but is it...
Philip Patston began his career 25 years ago as a counsellor and social worker, and he is the founder of DiversityNZ. Philip lives in New Zealand and is recognised locally and overseas as a social and creative entrepreneur with fifteen years’ experience as a professional, award-winning comedian. His passion is working with people when they want to explore and extend how they think about leadership, diversity, complexity and change.
The phrase "digital native" has evolved pretty effortlessly into the common lexicon in the last five years, but is it...
Recently, Violence Free Waitakere (VFW), in West Auckland NZ, launched "'Jade Speaks Up', a new multimedia resource to help keep...
The arrest of 12 and 13 year old boys for aggravated robbery and murder respectively in West Auckland a couple of weeks...
Having recently spent the weekend co-facilitating a leadership programme and then attending a job interview for a part-time communications position at...
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I have learnt so much working with Sue Davidoff and Allan Kaplan of the Proteus Initiative. I want to share an...
Twice in the last week I've been confronted by the issue of asking employment applicants whether they have any health...
Attitude is everything, they say. What if I said, I don't think so? Consider this, as long as it remains inside...
In my twenties, I used to run disability awareness workshops mainly for people working in disability services. I had an...
Most people would say they feel obligated as a result of someone else's expectation(s) of them. That's no surprise when...
It’s no surprise to anyone I know when I say that I love technology. I’m a bit of a geek, an early adopter...
In late February, social media in New Zealand showed its bitchy side rather than outright bullying, but you have to...
I was pretty unimpressed with the rather ugly responses to Justin Bieber's misdemeanours back in January. Sure, some of the...
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