Cheese on toast: A breakfast of belonging

Petra Bagust is one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most familiar broadcasters, with more than 30 years’ experience across television, radio, podcasting and live events. From Ice TV to hosting TVNZ’s Breakfast, the sell out 'Hot Mess' tour to her podcasts Grey Areas with Petra Bagust and Sunday Sanctuary. Petra brings warmth, curiosity and thoughtful conversation to the people and stories she encounters.

As facilitator of Cheese on Toast: A Breakfast of Belonging, Petra brings a love of good questions, unexpected connections and conversations that make space for our differences. She is looking forward to a morning of eating and engaging in the kind of belonging that doesn’t require anyone to have it all figured out.

Niki is Head of the School of Psychology at the University of Auckland. She was the sustainability lead for a recent curriculum review at the university and, with colleagues, established a transdisciplinary three-course sustainability teaching module for undergraduate students.

Niki’s research focuses on the psychology of sustainability, values and civil discourse. She has led action research programmes in educational and health organisations focused on creating a sustainability culture.

She is the author of 'Psychology for a Better World: Working with People to Save the Planet' and 'The Infinite Game: How to Live Well Together', and 'Once there were Priests: A Year Exploring what the Secular World can Learn from Religion'.

Ursula Griffen is the co-founder of REMiND, a mindfulness and workplace wellbeing provider.

With a background in ecology, permaculture and regenerative practice, she's spent her career at the intersection of sustainability, wellbeing and communications.

She knows firsthand how easy it is for people doing this work to run themselves into the ground.

In the morning, she'll lead a mindfulness practice and explore how it can support you in your own work.