Kotare works with individuals and groups involved in campaigns and projects for a more just world. In our workshops we choose to work with small groups to build quality relationships. People aged from 13 to 80 years have participated in our programmes. They include those active in areas such as Te Tiriti o Waitangi, antiracism, youth, community development, radical church, the environment, community economics, queer rights, disability rights, adult education, unemployed workers rights and unions, women’s liberation, and many more.
Our workshops use tools of analysis, action and reflection, as well as drama, art and music. We are committed to creative respectful processes and supporting different groups to work in coalition. The learning is based on the wisdom of participants. Our workshops are practical in style and we are committed to listening, developing and celebrating community experiences.
Our workshops are held at the Kotare Centre and throughout the country depending on the needs of the participants.
If your group is interested in workshops with Kotare on issues in your community please contact us. We can then assess our capacity to meet your needs. We are able to travel to communities but we do require funding for our tutors and their travel costs. We also reserve the right, based on our kaupapa, to choose with whom we will work at any time.
If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.
Aborignal Group, Queensland 1970's