Goodlife Collective

Goodlife Collective exists to unlock our collective potential.

We are committed to, 'making the invisible, visible', and to elevating voices, ideas and events that empower the collective.

Goodlife Collective is about creating opportunities to engage with thought-leadership, in ways that are experiential and relational, and to participate in generative dialogue to explore how these ideas might translate into local action.

Our guiding principle is: When we lift others up; we lift ourselves up.
 
Goodlife Collective stands for for creating spaces to re-humanise the world, and to contribute to unlocking our individual and collective potential. 

Our values are curiosity, humility, integrity and fun.

Our purpose is to empower agency and citizenship in individuals, and in the collective, to positively shape our shared future. We support people to cultivate healthy relationships with each other, and with te taiao, the environment, creating a future where both planet and people can thrive.

We see the polycrises - environmental degradation, species extinction, pandemic of health issues, loneliness and inequality - as symptoms of the deeper issue of lost connection to self and nature. Goodlife Collective sees people and nature as two indivisible entities of the same whole.
When we can repair and reconnect this understanding, we start the journey of healing and building better.

We understand that 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. We want to change that.

The whainga /purpose of Goodlife Collective are to:
- guide and help people to connect with experiences and people to create community and engagement on issues that they care about
- curate / co-deliver events, conversations and spaces, that reconnect us, to explore co-becoming and co-creating a pathway towards healthy people and for planet
-  create spaces for people to gather and 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.
-  support and co-host events that educate people on how our information landscape and built-environment shape who we are, and do our bit to create the conditions to help us 're-citizen'.
-  positively influence the collective narrative.

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.

We believe learning happens by doing. How can we expect society to function well at a collective level, in a system that incentives individual success? We create opportunities for people to experience and practice collaboration and cooperation. The more we come together as a collective, the better we'll get at it. As nora bateson says: in order to have community we must commune.

We believe in the importance of building inner-awareness, to better understand how this impacts our outer space. We are exploring bringing  IDG (Inner Development Goals) events to Poneke.
- We have set up an IDG hub (https://innerdevelopmentgoals.org/hubsnetworks123/) to support and promote awareness of the inner development goals. 

The idea for Goodlife Collective began for Founder Freda Wells, as a platform where the threads of her learnings from psychology, philosophy, environmental science, InnerMBA, yoga, systems thinking, parenting, appreciative enquiry, facilitation and life, started to weave together. A commonality amongst these threads is the deepening of our inner awareness and interconnectedness.