ABOUT WEAVE®
A safe and confidential environment in which new knowledge and valuable personal and business relationships can be woven.
WHAT IS WEAVE®
Leading a business can be a lonely and challenging experience. As a leader you have responsibility to run a successful business and for people’s livelihoods. However, there are few, if any, opportunities to genuinely and confidentially share concerns with, or network and learn from, your peers. Weave® helps solve this problem. Weave is a way to build a trusted network of CEOs and business leaders who are facing the same challenges and opportunities you do everyday. Weave® is about recognising that leadership doesn’t have to mean being alone and that the quickest route to success is learning from and with others. Weave® is your investment in your business, your career and yourself.
WHAT DOES WEAVE® DO?
Weave® provides professional development in a small group environment via interactive learning, peer support and networking opportunities. Each of our Leadership Groups has its own unique team dynamic and characteristics created by the experiences, personalities and contributions of its members and an experienced Chair. We facilitate a stimulating, safe and confidential networking and learning environment by sharing knowledge, experiences and advice.
WHAT CAN WEAVE DO FOR YOU?
“Weave meetings are a monthly slot in the calendar that I look forward too. Taking time out from day-to-day commitments to consider how each session topic could be applied within my own organisation is very valuable. Discussion, debate and collaboration amongst our group members is even more beneficial.
Time well invested.”
MIKE HERON
NHP Electrical Engineering Products - Country Manager - NZ
THE WEAVE OFFERING
Speakers Programme
Leadership Groups
Interactive Learning
Peer Support
Networking
Leadership Development Programme
Social Events
Business Profile Event Hosting
Member Connect
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WEAVE® WHAKAPAPA
Weave® brings together and interweaves the knowledge, experiences and insights of New Zealand’s Business Leaders.
There are many parallels in the metaphorical weavings that happen between members of our Leadership Groups and in the Māori living art form of Raranga (Weaving) and this is how the brand celebrates the bicultural aspect of our Kiwi national identity.
Raranga is passed down from the ancestors and a strong symbol of the survival of Māori culture. There are traditions involved in every aspect of Māori weaving, including the passing of knowledge from one weaver to another, and from one generation to another.
The visual identity celebrates the act and art of Raranga; where many different threads are brought together and interwoven in intricate formations. Where individual pieces are bound to make a whole; something supportive and stronger than its parts. And like the process of Raranga, the Weave® experience is dynamic; constantly evolving and developing as more threads are added.
Whāriki (woven floor mats) are a treasure of the Māori people; these are exclusive spaces that bring people to come and sit together, in a safe, friendly and collective environment, to share knowledge and stories. Our Leadership Groups offer a similar experience to their members, Weave® works hard to ensure there is mutual respect and trust within our intimate groups.
Once a mat is finished it may be connected to another mat to expand the piece, this can be seen as a representation of the way we bring our Leadership Groups together to form a larger Weave® community. There are different methods for joining new strips and the complicated techniques are mastered under the guidance of an older, experienced weaver. We see parallels here in the experience and knowledge of our Leadership Group Chairs.
Raranga also has a practical side. It is used for making strong and supportive everyday objects such as kono (food baskets) and kete (bags). Like these receptacles our business offer is pragmatic but also aspirational. The woven baskets can be symbolic and represent containers of knowledge and wisdom to be held and shared.
Māori mythology has the tale of the three baskets of knowledge. The god Tāne climbed to the citadel Te Tihi-o-Manono in the highest of the 12 heavens, here he retrieved three baskets of knowledge: te kete-tuatea (basket of light), te ketetuauri (basket of darkness) and te kete-aronui (basket of pursuit). Interpreters suggest that the basket of light is present knowledge, the basket of darkness things unknown, and the basket of pursuit is the knowledge humans currently seek. We feel this is a fitting analogy for the Weave® experience.
REFERENCE:
100% Pure New Zealand. https://www.newzealand.com/nz/maori-weaving/
Te Papa Tongarewa: Museum of New Zealand Archive https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/
Te Papa Tongarewa: Museum of New Zealand https://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/maori/maori-weaving
Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand https://teara.govt.nz/en/te-raranga-me-te-whatu
Toi Māori: The Eternal Thread. Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University, September 24 – December 22, 2005.
