This video was created as part of an in-depth inquiry into the effectiveness of Poutama Pounamu Blended Learning (PPBL) with staff at Waikato University.

The PPBL Programme is a year-long professional learning and development opportunity designed to surface and challenge long-held beliefs of educators, rooted in the rhetoric of colonisation.

The content is framed around opportunities for participants to engage in and learn through the following three processes: to know self, to grow self and to grow community.

Grow self

Once the know-self conversation had begun and safe spaces were available to have these conversations with other similarly curious and increasingly self-aware individuals, the learning was able to continue. Often the most challenging conversations were able to be had with colleagues and friends, about subject matters that previously had never been considered.