Goodlife Collective

Goodlife Collective exists to unlock our collective potential.
We believe that when we lift others up; we lift ourselves up.
Let's re-humanise the world.

We are interested in, 'making the invisible, visible', and in elevating voices, ideas and events that can have a positive impact on our shared future.

Goodlife Collective is about creating opportunities to engage with thought-leadership, in a way that supports all of us to step into our innate potential for creativity and leadership.

We think that great learning happens in experiential and relational contexts. Our events are about generative dialogue and participation, to explore how new ideas might translate into local action.

Our values are curiosity, humility, integrity and fun.

Our purpose is to ignite agency and hope in people, to positively shape our shared future.

We see the polycrisis - environmental degradation, species extinction, pandemic of health issues, loneliness and inequality - as symptoms of the deeper issue of lost connection to self and nature.
When we can repair and reconnect this understanding, we start the journey of healing and building better.

Our "inner infrastructure builds our outer infrastructure": the world is experiencing a pandemic of loneliness and depression because our system has not been built to support or incentivise relationality and reciprocity. Our efforts are in the interests of raising awareness of the interconnectedness of all things.

The whainga /purpose of Goodlife Collective are to:
- Support people to create community and engage around issues they care about
- Co-create events, conversations and spaces, that reconnect us, and explore co-becoming and co-creating a pathway towards healthy people and for planet
- Create spaces for people to explore what it means to live a good life, and to (re)connect heart wisdom back into the decisions and processes that shape our world.

We stand for (re)balancing headspace / heartspace, linear / circular, silos / holistic, separateness / connectedness, degenerative / regenerative, left-hemisphere / right-hemisphere, and spreadsheets (yes, yes, they have their place...), with a bigger purpose.

How can we expect society to function well at a collective level, in a system that incentives individual success? We are enthusiastic about collaborations to create opportunities for people to experience and practice collaboration and cooperation. As Nora Bateson says: in order to have community we must commune.

We believe in the importance of building inner-awareness, which impacts our outer world.  We are therefore exploring bringing  IDG (Inner Development Goals) events to Poneke, and have set up an IDG hub (https://innerdevelopmentgoals.org/hubsnetworks123/).