Nurturing Hope: Mutuality, action, and the gift of listening

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Nurturing Hope: Mutuality, action, and the gift of listening

Social beings asking “How now?”, we must imagine, care for and attend to what matters. This stream explores how hope can be nurtured collectively through listening with others, creating relationships, and exploring practical possibilities, while also attending to the differences in power and structures that shape the possibilities and limits of collective hope.

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This image features a copy of Haitian anthropologist and politician, Antenor Firmin’s, book The equality of the Human Races surrounded by native NZ plants.
Bronwyn Isaacs
Questions asked to quails, a small species of bird, also shown in the picture, during a workshop on multispecies inclusion at an animal sanctuary.
Cebuan Bliss
Walnut pedagogy
Charlotte Grum
In this photograph, the book Pedagogy of Hope is at the centre, but it is preceded by Pedagogy of the Oppressed, representing the movement of recognising oppression, followed by Education for Critical Consciousness, which brings dialogue and critical reflection. From there, we move towards hope not a passive hope, but a critical and active hope that opens possibilities for liberation. I took this photograph during one of my Culture Circles, and for me, it beautifully represents the interconnectedness of these Freirean ideas and the meaning of esperançar: hope in action.
Cristiene Carvalho
Title "Where are you from?" - poster colour paints, ink, screen-tones and markers
Madoka Takemoto
Wavy bands of rainbow-colored lines with music notes cradle a man's peaceful face.
Jennifer Burton and Gabrielle Burton, Ursula Burton, Maria Burton, Charity Burton
A collaborative wall celebrating the strengths and values that first year social work students bring to the profession, reflecting hope for its future.
Jessica Johannisen
Hope as waterlilies
Ksenia Zavyalova
Ba Na Hills, Vietnam. A giant stone hand rising from a mist-covered forest appears to support a pedestrian bridge, evoking themes of guidance, belonging, and pathways to future possibilities.
Leonie Webster
Inspired by Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repair, this image visualises collective goldening as a practice of active hope, where the cracks of higher education become meeting places for deep listening, reciprocity, care, and the emergence of new possibilities for becoming together.
Olivera Kamenarac and Lucia Stacchiotti
A fence with pointed metal uprights that would make it a difficult-to-climb barrier stretches from the right foreground into the distance on the left.
Robert (Rob) Nelson
Hope: The Collective Courage to Show Up
Sakshi Sharma
Happiness personified.
Stuart Bruere
A collage of photographs and personal reflections created by Somali Muslim youth in Toronto, depicting childhood memories, friendship, faith, and nature as they reflect on their identities, connections to community, and hopes for the future
Suad Ahmed and Raqiyah, Aliyah, Ali and Shahad
A chaotic assemblage of hearts, minds, books, lungs, and ears becoming butterfly-like.
Vicki Hargraves
Branching pathways extend in different directions, with some left unfinished and others changing course.
Zoha Aftab
The Postal Museum repository is alive with law, a contribution by Amanda Perry-Kessaris, Emily Allbon and Susannah Coster.
Amanda Perry-Kessaris, Emily Allbon and Susannah Coster

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