Oonagh McGirr is Deputy Chief Executive Learning and Teaching at Otago Polytechnic.
Talking points:
Other people motive me, just working with other people is a privilege and a pleasure. I’ve worked in lots of places, Spain, Italy, Greece, Ireland, England and now in New Zealand. So, I feel really privileged because its basically like a great long observational piece of work where you go around a meet lots of people and conclude that was are all basically the same.
People should start being kinder to people on every level.
Be aware that when you wake up in the morning that you need to make a genuinely kind act which is selfless.
We need to get beyond a discourse of deficit
Be kind, there’s enough for everybody