event: retail meat new Zealand butchers’ summit

WORKSHOP - The Balancing Act

For the first time, we are offering delegates an opportunity to attend a workshop as part of this year’s Butchers’ Summit.

The Balancing Act: Living and working well means understanding your wellbeing and how to balance it with work. Understanding your wellbeing helps you to build personal resilience. Join Maitland Manning (NZPork) in developing an interest in finding more about how you can manage your own wellbeing in this time of fast paced business.

This workshop will run just before we open up conference registrations at Eden Park and will be approx 1.5hours.

Location: Eden Park, Gate G, Reimers Avenue, Kingsland, Auckland

Date: Thursday 9 May

Time: 1.30 - 3pm

Cost: $50+gst

If you’d like to attend the workshop please select yes in the registration form.

A bit about the facilitator, Maitland Manning: Maitland grew up in the Wairarapa on a sheep, beef and cropping farm, before completing a BSc at Canterbury University.

Maitland has seen the impact of weather, markets and Government regulations on the health of New Zealand farmers.

He is passionate about well-being especially, in men and the rural sector during times of change and believes that farmers do best when looking after each other.

He has led the DairyNZ Farmer Well-being project aimed at improving farmer wellbeing through increasing awareness of mental and physical health and

Maitland is now working at NZPork, applying earlier learnings as this industry copes with regulatory change and pressures of farming.

Maitland is a trustee of the Good Programmes Trust and delivers resilience presentations and Good Yarn workshops.