About Kairology® Trust
The Trust was established in 2012 with the purpose of providing biblically based studies in manhood, marriage and fatherhood to men in prison. This formalised the work that had started in Springhill Prison near Auckland in 2005, in the context of personal leadership for men. The greater purpose of the Kairology® Manhood Study. is to help men to be better men, better husbands & partners, and not least better fathers. For men in prison, being a better father often feels like the first priority and concern for them, but working on themselves and their other relationships are equally important. The community objective is reduction in recidivism and re-offending, to keep men out of prison, and to break the generational cycle that is often the story. For many men, this study is their first real insight into what a truly loving family is, and can become. For others, it has enabled them to successfully integrate into their immediate and extended family.
Ian Williams wrote the studies by working on the subject areas with a group of men in prison, finding their needs, facilitating ideas and discussion, and bringing into the teaching his professional skills in personal growth, leadership and coaching. The success has been enabled with the support of the NZ Chaplaincy Service, NZ Department of Corrections, and Prison Fellowship NZ. The studies are designed and written, based on Christian principles and teaching, with a focus on God’s design for people, for coming together as a cohesive couple, and raising children in a stable loving home.
This work has been greatly blessed and grown since 2007, providing study material and facilitated discussion to well over 3500 people inside and outside prisons. It has extended into a matching study for women in prison (Kairology® Womanhood Study), and to people in their community (Kairology® Community Personhood Study). The work to date has been mainly focused in Auckland, Fiji and other Pacific regions.
Businessmen Ian Williams and Mark Claasen have been the main leaders in this work, with Mark being the lead facilitator for the extension of the current work in Auckland. We also have Dan Savou leading the work in Fiji prisons and communities.
There are opportunities for people to support this work by becoming volunteer facilitators, in prisons or in their own communities, or supporting the work by donations toward the cost of study resources. We provide the study resources free of charge through this website, provided that people register an interest, and we also provide a free facilitator manual and training for those who wish to use the materials.
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Ian A Williams FCIPD
Kairology®
Ian’s background and career is in HR, people and organisation development, leadership, and coaching. He is from England and spent most of his career in London and Bristol, and moved to New Zealand with his family in 2004. His inspiration and purpose comes from a passion for leadership, quality and purpose in life and business. He has received awards for service delivery and business excellence, and his efforts are geared towards improving the quality of contribution that people can make in their family and their work.
He is also the author of Kairology® leadership & coaching publications, and author of the Kairology® Prison and Community Studies, with the aim of building purposeful and resourceful lives, and reducing re-offending. He has worked as a prison chaplain, and spent several years on the national Board of Prison Fellowship NZ.
Ian heads up his own hospitality family businesses in Nelson. He has governance roles in business associations and other Trusts, and is the founder director of the Kairology Charitable Trust, established in 2012 to support prison and community ministry.
Mark Claasen
Father of 2, born in Christchurch, living in Auckland Marks background is in Social work and Engineering, managing his own company. He is all about striving for the work/life balance and is passionate about motorcycling and involved in many clubs.
Mark is involved with groups that support volunteers in and around the area of prison ministry.
Mark has been running Kairology classes weekly in prisons for many years and has also had the opportunity to take the courses to the Pacific Islands.
He enjoys challenging inmates to better themselves and encouraging them to put what they have learnt into practise, restoring them and their families relationships.
Contact:
| Ian Williams | Mark Classen |
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| P O Box 1846, Nelson 7040 | P.O.Box 139 Waiuku 2341 Auckland, New Zealand |
| ian@kairology.com | kairology2@yahoo.co.nz |