Theme: Celebrate the Journey

Kia ora! Welcome to TEDxHastingsSt

Back for its third year, the annual Hawke’s Bay TEDx Event, TEDxHastingsSt, will be held in Havelock North after successful events in both Napier and Hastings. The 2020 event will be held in the Blyth Theatre at Iona College, Havelock North on Saturday 12th September.

At TEDxHastingsSt 2020, 6 live speakers will combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group on a wide range of topics from Artificial Intelligence to Personal Development. The speakers this year will include: Amanda Palmer, Andrew Harris, Bhavna Nagar, Clive Barrow, Jules Congalton, Christine Spring, and Wayne Forrest.

The 2018 event focused on visions for a more culturally vibrant Hawke’s Bay. Last year’s theme looked more practically at how to achieve that inspiring vision. And this year, TEDxHastingsSt will begin to apply that vision.

After a year full of uncertainty, TEDxHastingsSt 2020’s theme of Celebrate the Journey will encourage us all to renew our long-term vision as we look to the future. It is easy to celebrate the beginning or end of something, but celebrating the journey itself is often forgotten.

The event this year will take place over a Saturday afternoon, where attendees can expect to be challenged and inspired as they experience the fantastic speakers in an amazing venue. The ticket price includes light refreshments provided by local food and beverage suppliers. The event will conclude with a wine and cheese soiree where there will be an opportunity to network with other attendees and the speakers.

The 2020 event has again been organized by the devoted volunteer team at TEDxHastingsSt with support from their sponsors and key partners. You may see summaries for our previous two events below:

2018: https://tedxhastingsst.com/tedxhastingsst-2018/ and

2019: https://tedxhastingsst.com/2019-tedxhastingsst/

Thank you, and celebrate the journey!

Blyth Theatre Iona College
42 Lucknow Road
Havelock North, Hawke's Bay, 4130
New Zealand

Andrew Harris

Author

Andrew Harris is now a proud Kiwi, having moved from the UK to New Zealand in 2008. He was born in a council house in Liverpool and created a successful early career in people management and executive recruitment, having graduated in sociology with psychology from the University of Leeds. In 2016 Andrew became a published author. One of his passions has always been storytelling. He is creating The Human Spirit Series; crime fiction thrillers with a social conscience, designed to be Provocative – Informative – Entertaining. His first book, The C Clef, was published by Faithful Hound Media in April 2016. The second book in the series, A Litany of Good Intentions, followed in October 2017 and, in April this year, the third book, More, was released. Andrew intends to publish his fourth book in March 2021. Andrew, with his wife and business partner, Jacqui, moved from Auckland to Hawke’s Bay in January 2018. They are both proud members of the Rotary Club of Napier.

Bhavna Nagar

Psychologist

Bhavna was born, raised, and educated as a clinical psychologist in South Africa. She moved to New Zealand in January 2008 looking for a change. Her journey with mindfulness started in 2005. Since 2009, she has incorporated mindfulness into her clinical practice, in this way, giving her clients the best of both worlds - psychological and mindfulness tools. In 2012 she started her own business, Alive! Psychology, duly named because of her passion for life. She believes that life needs to be experienced fully. Through therapy and mindfulness, she discovered her passion for life and discovered the ability to live life fully with all it has to offer - the good and the bad. Her journey has inspired her to create the Self-Love Approach, supporting clients to transform their lives from existing to being ALIVE. Bhavna leads corporate mindfulness training. She also co-facilitates four-day mindfulness retreats that have helped to transform people's lives.

Christine Spring

Director

Christine is a civil engineer and has approximately 25 years' experience in infrastructure development in New Zealand, Australia, England, United Arab Emirates, Asia and the Pacific Islands. She holds a Bachelor of Engineering, a Masters of Science in Engineering (specialising in airport design) and a Masters of Business Administration. Her executive management expertise was focused on the strategy, stakeholder management and planning of significant capital development projects, primarily in the aviation industry. She has also taught airport planning in Singapore for the American Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She has been a Hawke's Bay resident since 2013, after choosing to relocate back to New Zealand after ten years of working abroad. She was proudly the CEO of the Hawke's Bay Opera House until its closure for earthquake prone reasons in May 2014, and is delighted to be contributing again to the Bay with her role as a non-Executive Director of Unison Networks Limited.

Clive Barrow

Leadership Consultant

Clive is originally from England, and settled with his family in Hawke’s Bay in 2005 where he has made his home. Following his military career, he joined the international youth development charity, Operation Raleigh as a field director, where he led a series of challenging expeditions to East Africa, Pakistan, Guyana, Chile, Poland, and Australia with a focus on developing leadership in young people. During his varied career, Clive has worked in over 40 countries and currently operates primarily with multinational organisations in the Asia Pacific region. Over the past ten years, he has developed cultural insights through working with delegates from Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Korea, Malaysia, Australia & New Zealand, the Middle East and Africa. He loves personal challenges, and has completed conventional and mountain/x country marathons including completing six marathons in seven days, all in temperatures of up to 46 degrees.

Jules Congalton

Asset Management System Manager

Jules Congalton works in information management and is interested in delivering positive change by combining social and technical innovations. In 2014 he completed a PhD in Information systems examining the effect of diversity in software development teams. His current focus is on how to optimise the management of the assets which make up our electricity system to deliver the best outcomes for the community. His goal is to implement changes in ways that are inclusive of others and which build lasting value for those that he works with.

Wayne Forrest

Life Coach

Wayne Forrest is an International Transformational speaker and Life Mastery Consultant, certified by the Brave thinking Institute in LA. He grew up in the community of Porangahau, where he farmed for 25 years and now lives between Waipukurau and Takapau, with his wife Kathy. He has 4 children and 2 Grandchildren. Wayne says his rugby accident in 1995, leaving him in a wheelchair, was the catalyst for his on-going journey into personal development, which has given him the incredible life that he loves and is very grateful for. He is a Co-Creator of CHB Swim 4 lives Non for profit, which supports local schools in doing deep water programs, to help save lives from drowning. Wayne shares his journey from the heart to enable others to believe that you too can build and live into your dreams and live a life you love, regardless of the struggles we face.