Listen Up NZ equips communities with the knowledge, skills, and tools to survive and support each other when conventional infrastructure fails. Education-first. Community-led. Built for the real New Zealand.
Listen Up NZ is a community disaster education initiative that takes practical resilience knowledge directly to the people who need it most — in their marae, community halls, schools, and town squares.
We don't just talk about disasters in abstract. We run hands-on workshops, community conversations, and preparedness sessions that leave people genuinely more capable. From building a 72-hour kit to understanding your local hazards, from basic first aid to neighbourhood coordination — Listen Up NZ makes resilience tangible and achievable.
We work with iwi, councils, rural communities, and urban neighbourhoods — meeting people where they are, in language that makes sense to them.
New Zealand's geography makes it one of the most disaster-exposed nations on earth. We sit on the Pacific Ring of Fire, we have long exposed coastlines, and our infrastructure — roads, power lines, telecommunications — follows corridors that earthquakes and floods routinely cut.
When Cyclone Gabrielle hit in 2023, entire communities were completely isolated for days. The communities that coped best weren't those with the most resources — they were the ones where neighbours knew each other, had plans, and had practised.
That is exactly what Listen Up NZ builds. Not fear. Not dependency on authorities. Genuine community capability — the kind that saves lives when the grid goes down and the helicopters can't get through.
The best time to prepare for a disaster was before it happened. The second best time is right now.
The Resilience Roadshow is Listen Up NZ's flagship programme — a travelling community engagement tour that brings disaster education directly to towns, marae, schools, and rural communities across New Zealand.
We don't wait for communities to come to us. We pack up the expertise, the equipment, and the Neighbour Up technology, and we hit the road. Each stop is tailored to the community — their specific hazards, their existing knowledge, their culture and language.
Every Roadshow visit leaves behind something tangible: a community preparedness plan, trained neighbourhood coordinators, and a live Neighbour Up node so the connections built during the event keep working long after we've moved on.
Practical, proven curriculum developed for New Zealand conditions — covering everything from basic survival to community coordination at scale.
Everything a household needs to be self-sufficient for the critical first three days — water storage and purification, emergency food, warmth, first aid, medications, and communication without power.
How to organise a street or block during a disaster — checking on neighbours, pooling resources, identifying vulnerable people, setting up informal welfare hubs, and coordinating with emergency services.
Practical first aid for when professional help is hours or days away. CPR, bleeding control, fracture management, burns, shock, and how to triage when resources are limited and hospitals are unreachable.
How to communicate when cell networks and internet go down. CB and UHF radio, Neighbour Up mesh platform, physical runner systems, and how to pass critical information across a community without infrastructure.
Understanding your local hazards — reading tsunami evacuation zones, knowing your soil liquefaction risk, identifying safe and unsafe buildings, and understanding what to do in the first 60 seconds of an earthquake.
An ever-growing library of video guides, printable resources, and interactive learning content — hosted on the Neighbour Up mesh and accessible by anyone in range, even when there's no internet connection at all.
Listen Up NZ is the human face of the Neighbour Up Ecosystem — the education and engagement engine that brings communities onto the platform and ensures the technology actually gets used when it counts.
The Resilience Roadshow doesn't just teach — it deploys infrastructure. Every community visited gets a live Neighbour Up node installed, connecting them to a resilient offline-first mesh network that carries SafetyNet, NeighbourLink, and Survival Skool content without any internet dependency.
Listen Up NZ is developed and operated by Connectivv Communications in partnership with the Neighbour Up Charitable Foundation — ensuring the programme can reach communities regardless of their ability to pay.
There are many ways to be part of building a more resilient New Zealand — whatever your role, your community, or your capacity.
Bring the Resilience Roadshow to your community, school, marae, or organisation. We work with communities of all sizes across New Zealand.
Request a VisitCouncils, iwi authorities, community trusts, emergency management agencies, and corporate partners — we'd love to work with you to scale the programme.
Explore PartnershipThe Neighbour Up Charitable Foundation makes Listen Up NZ free for communities. Your contribution ensures we can reach the communities that need it most, regardless of resources.
Support the FoundationWhether you want to bring the Roadshow to your community, partner with us, or simply learn more about what we do — we'd love to hear from you.