GOOD Awaits GOOD Awaits

"We can’t have a different future if we can’t imagine it first” 

Whether we’re conscious of it or not, how we live, work, play - and travel - is all informed by the stories we tell ourselves, by the narratives we continue to uphold. We are all storytellers, and the stories we tell and how we tell them matter. 

Join us in this two part episode on storytelling in a VUCA world. Our guest for part one is Alina Siegfried who guides us in exploring a new story for humanity, and new myths and narratives for a different future that we can all create together. 

In part two, we’re joined by JoAnna Haugen, master storyteller for tourism, who shares how to craft honest, intentional, complicated, and complex stories that help shift our mindset as we adapt to our changing world. 

 

Join the conversation

Join our Linkedin network of likeminded professionals exploring what a regenerative future for tourism can look like. We'd love to see you there and hear your thoughts on this episode. 

 

Show notes and links:

Alina Siegfried

Big World, Small Planet: Abundance within Planetary Boundaries - Johan Rockstrom

Hillary Institute

Sir Edmund Hillary Fellowship

Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Our Common Future, also known as Brundtland Report 1987

Limits to Growth - Donella Meadows

Rooted Story Telling - JoAnna Haugen

Guide: Navigating the Climate Crisis: A Guide for Content Creators
IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability



This podcast is created Debbie Clarke and Josie Major. Audio Production and music is by Clarrie Macklin. 

A huge thanks to UNESCO NZ for their support for this project.  

Welcome to Season 2 of GOOD Awaits! One year into their journey to research and explore regenerative tourism practice in Aotearoa New Zealand, Debbie and Josie are thrilled to be continuing these critical conversations. 

Continuing to unpack the paradigm shift that is required for a regenerative tourism future, this season of GOOD Awaits will go beyond the perceived silo of tourism with a diverse range of guests including story-tellers, students, researchers, and local hosts. Debbie and Josie will explore how these pioneers are creating a new guiding story at individual, local and systemic levels. 

A critical question that emerged from Season 1 was: what is tourism’s purpose? Season 2 explores this question further by asking: what is tourism’s purpose in a VUCA - volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous - world? How can we adapt and be resilient while using tourism to regenerate our communities and places? What new stories and myths do we need in order to see ourselves as regenerators of our places?

Journey with Debbie and Josie as they explore these questions and as we work towards an evolving, connected, regenerative tourism future together. 

 

Episode Notes

Summary of Season 1: Regenerative tourism in Aotearoa New Zealand – A new paradigm for the VUCA world

IPCC Sixth Assessment Report: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

LinkedIn Network: GOOD Awaits - A Regenerative Tourism Network

 

In this episode, Debbie and Josie revisit and recap the inspiring conversations with their guests, harvesting a vision for what a regenerative visitor economy could look like in Aotearoa, New Zealand. In this harvest, you'll hear some of our favourite interview fragments from all of our guests, as well as ideas and questions sent in by you, our wonderful listeners.The Harvest is designed to help you digest what we've discussed throughout the season, and as a summary for those who haven't had the time to listen to all 10 episodes.


All the guests in this season speak to the urgency and imperative of acknowledging the challenges of an uncertain and complex future. We must face this reality if we’re to be resilient in how we reshape our tourism businesses, industry, and communities. Our collective vision is one in which the wellbeing and thrivability of communities is at the heart of tourism’s purpose. We dream of a visitor economy that fosters deep and meaningful encounters between visitors and hosts, and puts purpose and passion at the forefront.


We hope you find much value and inspiration in this collective vision of a reimagined tourism in Aotearoa, New Zealand. If you’re interested in continuing these conversations we invite you to reach out to us and become part of our growing community. 


 


Support our Work 


This podcast is produced entirely by volunteers. If you are finding value in these conversations, please consider supporting us to continue this work by donating to our givealittle page. We are extremely grateful for your support. 


 


Connect with us


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Send us an email:


Josie - josie@good-travel.org


Debbie - debbie@newzealandawaits.com


 


Many thanks to:


All of our guests for generously gifting us their time and knowledge, this project would not have been possible without you all. 


The teams at GOOD Travel and New Zealand Awaits


Clarrie Macklin for our music and production 


Erin Carnes for our logo and graphic design 


Our givealittle donors for your generous support for our volunteer produced podcast


 


Show notes and links


Back to life Network


The Tourism CoLab - Regenerative Tourism by Design Course


IPCC Sixth Assessment Report


Wave Image of Crises - Mackay Cartoons


Regenerative Thinkers: Thanks to Anna Pollock for this list


Paul Hawken, Carol Sanford, the Regenesis Group, Michelle Holliday, Dominique Hes, Chrisna du Plessis, Jenny Andersson, Kathleen Allen, John Fullerton, Alan Savory, Daniel Wahl, Giles Hutchins, Fritjof Capra, John Ehrenfeld, David Korten, Jeremy Lent, Charles Eisenstein


The Global Regenerative tourism Initiative 


The Tourism Taskforce Interim Report


 


Glossary:


(We and our often use words from Te Reo Māori, New Zealand's indigenous language, in their interviews. We welcome and celebrate this, and for listeners outside of New Zealand for whom these may be unfamiliar, we offer an interpretation here to aid your understanding. For more detail, you can reference https://maoridictionary.co.nz/. We also offer explanations of acronyms and other industry terminology used in hope of making GOOD Awaits more accessible.)


Aotearoa - New Zealand


Manaakitanga – hospitality, welcome


Te Tiriti o Waitangi - The Treaty of Waitangi


Whakapapa - genealogy, heritage


 

In this episode, Debbie and Josie interview Lee-Anne Jago, owner of Waka Abel Tasman. Lee-Anne and her husband Todd offer waka experiences in the Abel Tasman within a cultural framework of Maori tikanga and world view. They place their community at the heart of everything they do in their business and are passionate about uplifting rangatahi (young people) and supporting their community to thrive. 


Our conversation with Lee-Anne is in many ways a summary of the regenerative tourism principles we’ve discussed in previous episodes; demonstrating how tourism can help communities thrive, create deep and meaningful connections, place purpose and passion at the heart of business, and be more resilient and adaptive in this VUCA world. We hope you find much value and inspiration in this example of regenerative tourism.


This episode is the final interview for season 1 of the GOOD Awaits podcast. We will be sharing one more episode, an extended reflection with Debbie and Josie to harvest some of the stories and learnings from the podcast. If you would like to contribute to this, please send us your ideas, reflections or questions and we would love to include them in our conversation. 


 


Support our Work 


This podcast is produced entirely by volunteers. If you are finding value in these conversations, please consider supporting us to continue this work by donating to our givealittle page. We are extremely grateful for your support. 


 


Connect with us


Website


Connect on Facebook


Follow on Instagram 


Send us an email:


Josie - josie@good-travel.org


Debbie - debbie@newzealandawaits.com


 


Many thanks to:


Lee-Anne for joining us on the podcast and sharing the inspiring story of her business and community 


The teams at GOOD Travel and New Zealand Awaits


Clarrie Macklin for our music and production 


Erin Carnes for our logo and graphic design 


Our givealittle donors for your generous support for our volunteer produced podcast


 


Episode Notes: 


Lee-Anne Jago - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-anne-jago-jago-319a73147/ 


Waka Abel Tasman


 


Glossary:


(Our guests will often use words from Te Reo Māori, New Zealand's indigenous language, in their interviews. We welcome and celebrate this, and for listeners outside of New Zealand for whom these may be unfamiliar, we offer an interpretation here to aid your understanding. For more detail, you can reference https://maoridictionary.co.nz/. We also offer explanations of acronyms and other industry terminology used in hope of making GOOD Awaits more accessible.)


Aotearoa - New Zealand


Waka - canoe


Waka ama - outrigger canoe


Whakapapa – genealogy, lineage


Tikanga - cultural protocols and values 


Te Ao Māori - The Māori world


Koha - offering, donation


Mahi - work


Rohe - area


Kaumatua - elder


Kaitiakitanga - guardianship, stewardship


Manaakitanga – hospitality, care, welcome


Manaaki - to welcome and care for, to uplift others


Kaitiakitanga - guardianship, stewardship


Rangatahi - youth


Kaupapa - purpose, policy or values


Whakaaro – mindset, thought, opinion


Karakia - incantation, ritual chant, chant

For Episode 9 Josie and Debbie interviewed Mandy Bell, co-owner of Criffel Station and Chairperson and Programme Director of WAI Wanaka. Mandy brings innovative, nature-based, and whole of community approaches to her work, and spoke with us about the opportunities to look beyond tourism and work across sectors when taking a regenerative approach.


Mandy is a big picture thinker with ambitious goals for tourism in Aotearoa, but offers practical, actionable examples and ideas in this conversation including models of regenerative practice in action from other sectors and examples of community-driven and nature-based mindset initiatives. 


This week, our offering is for listeners who have stayed with us throughout  this journey, all the way to Episode 9 of GOOD Awaits. You are a part of this transformative movement, and if you want to talk about how we can continue to drive change, please get in touch with us. We need to work together on this if we're going to create the conditions for a regenerative visitor economy to thrive in Aotearoa. 


 


Support our Work 


This podcast is produced entirely by volunteers. If you are finding value in these conversations, please consider supporting us to continue this work by donating to our givealittle page. We are extremely grateful for your support.  


 


Connect with us


Website


Connect on Facebook


Follow on Instagram 


Send us an email:


Josie - josie@good-travel.org


Debbie - debbie@newzealandawaits.com


 


Many thanks to:


Mandy Bell for giving her time and wisdom to us for this episode, and for sharing her inspiring vision of the future.


The teams at GOOD Travel and New Zealand Awaits


Clarrie Macklin for our music and production 


Erin Carnes for our logo and graphic design 


Our givealittle donors for your generous support for our volunteer produced podcast


 


Show notes:


Mandy Bell: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandy-bell-914a735a/ 


Criffel Station


WAI Wanaka 


WAO

In this episode, Debbie and Josie interview Porina McLeod, owner of Mauao Adventures. Mauao Adventures’ core purpose is to connect people with the moana (ocean), the whenua (land) and tangata whenua (local people). Preserving Māori cultural values is important to Porina and these values are woven through every aspect of her business.


Porina speaks about her involvement in Te Whānau Tāpoi Māori ō Tauranga Moana, a newly formed Māori tourism collective that demonstrates true collaboration and is an example of living systems principles, bringing diverse individuals together through relationships and structures to form a emergent, thriving collective. 


Porina’s view of the world, how she operates her business, and Te Whānau Tāpoi Māori ō Tauranga Moana are all examples of living systems thinking and practice. We hope you find much value and inspiration in these examples of regenerative tourism.


 


Support our Work 


This podcast is produced entirely by volunteers. If you are finding value in these conversations, please consider supporting us to continue this work by donating to our givealittle page. We are extremely grateful for your support.  


 


Connect with us


Website


Connect on Facebook


Follow on Instagram 


Send us an email:


Josie - josie@good-travel.org


Debbie - debbie@newzealandawaits.com


 


Many thanks to:


Porina McLeod for taking the time to share the stories of her inspiring work with us


The teams at GOOD Travel and New Zealand Awaits


Clarrie Macklin for our music and production 


Erin Carnes for our logo and graphic design 


Our givealittle donors for your generous support for our volunteer produced podcast


 


Show notes and links


Porina's business - Mauao Adventures 


kiaora@mauaoadventures.co.nz


Te Whānau Tāpoi Māori ō Tauranga Moana Members


Te Ara Tourism


Ngātahi


LoCol Rides


Tipu’s Tiki Tours


Travel Ed 


Tauranga Moana Tourism


Arataki Systems


RiverBug 


Mo’s Matakana Island Tours 


Tauranga Water Transport 


Tāpoi Travel 


Te Mananui


 


Glossary:


(Our guests will often use words from Te Reo Māori, New Zealand's indigenous language, in their interviews. We welcome and celebrate this, and for listeners outside of New Zealand for whom these may be unfamiliar, we offer an interpretation here to aid your understanding. For more detail, you can reference https://maoridictionary.co.nz/. We also offer explanations of acronyms and other industry terminology used in hope of making GOOD Awaits more accessible.)


Moana – ocean


Mahi - work


Te Ao Māori - The Māori world


Kaupapa - purpose, policy or values


Taiao – environment 


Whenua - land


Tangata Whenua - “people of the land”, Māori people local to a particular area


Haumarutanga - safety, protection


Kaitiakitanga - guardianship, stewardship


Whakaaro – mindset, thought, opinion


Manaakitanga – hospitality


Whanaungatanga - relationships, making kinship connections 


Kotahitanga – unity and oneness


Matariki – Māori New Year


Whakapapa – genealogy, lineage


Iwi - tribe, people


Rangatira - leader, chief


Pākehā – non-Māori New Zealander


Urupā – cemetery


Wairua – spirit, soul