Enabling Good Lives 101

Beginning in 2024, My Life My Voice will be running a new series of community-based forums called Enabling Good Lives 101.

These forums will be held across six regions and will explore the Enabling Goods Lives approach and how it can impact your life. This forum is for people who are familiar with and know nothing about Enabling Good Lives but interested in learning more.

Where did Enabling Good Lives 101 come from? 

My Life My Voice is part of the Community Capability Development Services Initiative (CCDS). This is an initiative funded by Whaikaha to promote the Enabling Good Lives vision and share its eight principles and approach to more regions across Aotearoa.

This initiative focuses on our community, the disabled community. This includes:

  • Disabled people/Tāngata Whaikaha Māori

  • Family/whānau of disabled people

  • Disability service providers

  • Disability support workers

All members of the disability community are invited to attend our Enabling Good Lives 101 forums.

Where will the forums be held?

Each month, we hold 6 online Enabling Good Lives 101 forums via Zoom and a group of in-person forums in one of our assigned regions. These regions are Gisborne, Nelson, Invercargill, Auckland’s North Shore, as well as East and South Auckland.

Locations and addresses are included below and will also be announced via social media.

When are the next forums being held? 

Our next Zoom forums, EGL 101 Part 2 - Developing Local Leadership, will be run via Zoom on the following dates/times:

  • Gisborne - April 22, 12:30-2:30pm

  • Nelson - April 24, 12:30-2:30pm

  • Invercargill - April 26, 12:30-2:30pm

  • Auckland (North Shore) - April 29, 12:30-2:30pm

  • Auckland (East) - May 1, 12:30-2:30pm

  • Auckland (South) - May 3, 12:30-2:30pm

Our upcoming in-person forums will be held on the following dates/times:

  • Gisborne - Monday 13 May, 2:00pm-5:00pm
    HB Williams Memorial Library, 34 Bright St

  • Gisborne - Tuesday 14 May, 10:00am-1:00pm
    HB Williams Memorial Library, 34 Bright St

  • Gisborne - Tuesday 14 May, 5:00pm-8:00pm
    HB Williams Memorial Library, 34 Bright St

  • Tokomaru Bay - Wednesday 15 May, 10:30am-1:30pm
    Te Puka Tavern, 153 Beach Rd

  • Tokomaru Bay - Wednesday 15 May, 2:30am-5:30pm
    Te Puka Tavern, 153 Beach Rd

What support can be provided? 

We are able to provide Meeting Assistants on request and will have NZSL Interpreters present at all forums. Please let us know if you require a Meeting Assistant and we will arrange one.

As we are committed to making our training as accessible as possible, please let us know about any other learning supports and access requirements you have and we can investigate how best to support them.

EGL 101 Registration Form

Please complete the form below to register for our next EGL 101 forums.

NOTE: Each forum is dedicated to discussing the local community and resources in the assigned region. Because of this, only those who reside in the designated region for the forum are able to attend the corresponding forum.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to us at egl101@mylifemyvoice.org.nz.