Hannah Smith

What I’m Currently Doing - Based in Aotearoa New Zealand, I’m a learning designer, facilitator and coach who specialises in developing relationships between people, organisations and the natural world. Wherever I can, I work with people outdoors. I am fascinated by ‘the invisible in-between’ - the role of connectedness, connectivity and connectorship in change processes. Exploring this as part of theEdmund Hillary Fellowship and through my work with my small Wellington-based consultancy Pocketknife.

Previously - My background is in social enterprise development in the UK and internationally.  I’ve designed and led programmes in diverse settings - with refugees and asylum seekers in East London, with rural communities in the Scottish Highlands and with groups of educators and students in the Middle East, SE Asia and South Korea.  I’ve worked a lot with young people, used to run a bookshop for Oxfam and set up the UK operation of a socially responsible bookseller Better World Books.  I once wrote a Masters thesis challenging our cultural obsession with ‘hero’ entrepreneurs in social change processes and have been looking through a systems lens ever since.

What Interests & Excites Me 

• Connectedness, connectivity & the craft of connectorship

• Human relationships with the rest of the natural world

• Systems, networks, complexity

• Edges, transitions, liminal spaces

• Decolonisation & indigeneity

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