BACK TO LIFE
towards a regenerative recovery
Welcome to our Learning Journey
Back to Life is an online learning program + community designed to help New Zealand's visitor economy recover and flourish from the Covid-19 pandemic.
The success of any recovery from a crisis depends on our ability to understand its root cause and then co-design and build a healthier, new model that creates the conditions for individuals, businesses and communities to thrive and prosper in a very different future.
While such a task is best accomplished in communities (the destinations that receive and accommodate guests ), current physical distancing requirements mean that gatherings will need to be postponed until the end of lockdown.
We can however, meet and learn together on-line and form the trust, safe spaces, collaborative attitudes and practices we will need later.
The Back to Life program comprising 8 course modules introduces learners to the principles and practices of regeneration and is available to any commercial participant in the visitor economy provided they belong to or are represented by a subscriber organisation.
All 8 modules of the program will be accessible on this site in due course. In the meantime you can explore and prepare by clicking one of the four buttons below.
Faculty
Meet the Course Instructors
Anna Pollock
Based on an extensive career as a researcher, strategist and change catalyst serving the international tourism and hospitality sector, I’m passionate about its capacity to generate well-being, wealth and welfare for people and places, provided that it is managed properly, i.e. with respect for the interdependence and connectedness of all life and in harmony with the laws of nature.
Michelle Holliday
As a consultant, facilitator, researcher and writer, my work centers around “thrivability” — a set of perspectives and practices based on a view of organizations and communities as dynamic, selforganizing living systems. On this foundation, I bring people together and help them discover ways they can feel more alive, connect more meaningfully with each other, and serve life more powerfully and effectively through their collective action.