City First Aid

Matariki is a time to look back at the journeys that brought us here, the places that shaped us, the traditions we carry, and what we have come to love about calling Aotearoa | New Zealand home. This is the first of two posts introducing you to the journeys that have shaped the CFA team. Today, our senior team. Next week, our newest voices. Each person was asked three questions and invited to share a photo from somewhere special to them. Vicky | 8 years as co-owner and managing director of...

Thanks, Gemini, for helping me create this little introduction. At City First Aid, reflection is part of how we improve our training and your experience from booking to leaving reviews. Three principles sit underneath our greater work: Protection, Participation, and Partnership. Sound familiar? They are core principles in how we honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and are also foundational to how we work as a training provider here in Aotearoa | New Zealand. Protection means protecting our learners,...

One of the things we enjoy about our Behind the Whiteboard series is sharing the experiences and observations that sit behind the teaching. This week, Brian, one of CFA's owners and directors, draws on a lifetime of winter travel across New Zealand, from city streets to the open roads of Canterbury and Otago Lessons from the Ice: A Lifetime of Winter Travel By Brian There are some lessons in life that stay with you forever. Others, we learn twice. Growing up in Rotorua, winter mornings often...