Christchurch Artificial Intelligence

A weekly space to think better, together — with the help of AI.
What happens when you blend human connection, coaching frameworks, and an AI that listens without judgment or ego?
You get a power hour that jump-starts clarity, confidence, and momentum.

Join Caelan Huntress for a weekly AI Coaching Power Hour.

This session is designed to give you one hour of focused reflection, a gentle push forward, and a supportive community to grow with. Whether you're navigating a challenge, shaping a goal, or simply wanting a structured space to think out loud — you’ll leave feeling lighter, clearer, and ready to take your next step.

During this hands-on, interactive workshop, you will learn how to create a coach out of your favourite book, and practice having structured conversations with an AI partner.

AGENDA
15 min - we talk to each other, on Zoom
15 min - we talk to an AI coach, individually
10 min - we come back together and debrief
10 min - breakout room 1:1s
5 min - weekly commitments
5 min - show & tell, open Q&A

These 4 x weekly Ai Coaching Power Hours are drop in. You can RSVP for the whole series, or for only one (select the date on the right).

### 🧭 What We’ll Do (in 60 minutes)

15 min — Human Connection
We start together on Zoom. Simple conversation. Real presence. You’ll share what you’re working on and what you want coaching around today.
15 min — Solo AI Coaching Session
You’ll be paired with a private AI coaching prompt (provided), and spend 1:1 time with an AI coach. Think of it as a reflective mirror: asking questions, offering perspective, helping you articulate what you truly want.
10 min — Group Debrief
We come back together to share insights, a-has, breakthroughs, surprises, and patterns. This is where collective reflection can help you illuminate your own insights.
10 min — Breakout Room 1:1s
You’ll get paired with another participant for a live, human-to-human coaching conversation. It’s simple, structured, and insightful.
5 min — Weekly Commitments
You close the loop by naming one action you’ll take before next week. Small steps lead to big shifts.
5 min — Show & Tell / Open Q&A
Got a prompt that worked well? A coaching tool to share? A question about your AI session? Share it. We’ll explore it together.

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### 📌 Who This Is For

• Anyone curious about AI coaching
• Coaches who want to expand their toolkit
• Creatives, founders, leaders, solopreneurs
• Anyone craving a consistent weekly moment of reflection
• People who want to think better — and appreciate guided structure

No experience with AI needed. No pressure to share more than you want. Just bring yourself, an open mind, and something you’re working on.

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### ⚡ Why Join?

Because breakthroughs don’t come from thinking harder.

They come from thinking differently — with new questions, new mirrors, and a supportive circle.

You’ll leave each week with:

• a fresh insight about yourself
• one clear next action
• and a growing sense of momentum, grounded in community

Explore testing data and coaching conversations at February's First Monday Meetup. Hamish Watson will be exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and testing data, while Caelan Huntress will be sharing practical techniques for using AI as a personal coach. Drinks, demos, and practical takeaways included.

Meet up with your local AI community on the First Monday of February at EPIC Innovation:

5:30–6:00 pm — Drinks & Networking
6:00–6:45 pm — AI Data Testing — Hamish Watson
6:45–7:30 pm — Using AI as a Personal Coach — Caelan Huntress
7:30–8:00 pm — Drinks & Open Q&A

AI Data Testing — Hamish Watson
This talk delves into how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how we test data, it will highlight how AI is revolutionising the approaches to data verification and validation.
We will explore AI methodologies for generating synthetic test data, enhancing test coverage, and automating testing processes.
The session will also cover the impact of AI on identifying hidden patterns within data, ensuring higher accuracy, and reducing biases in testing datasets. An introduction of how Test Driven Development and AI can enhance your data engineering practices will be presented.

After this session, you will gain practical insights into:

• how AI can elevate the reliability and efficiency of your testing strategies
• how to accelerate development cycles and improving software quality in today’s fast-paced technological landscape

Using AI as a Personal Coach — Caelan Huntress
Learn how to think better, decide faster, and grow wiser, with the help of AI.
Most people use AI to get answers. But the real power of AI is using it to ask better questions.
In this interactive session, you’ll learn how to turn a LLM into a personal coach that helps you reflect, clarify your thinking, and move forward with intention. This isn’t for abdicating your decisions to a machine. This is to use AI as a mirror—one that listens deeply, reflects honestly, and brings out the insights already inside you.
You will learn:

• How coaching actually works (and why AI is surprisingly good at it)
• The difference between Tell / Show / Ask modes—and why “Ask Mode” unlocks breakthroughs
• How to design an AI coach persona that matches your style
• The art of crafting questions that spark insight instead of giving advice
• Practical prompts you can use right away for clarity, confidence, and momentum

Prompt engineers are movie producers now, and in March's First Monday Meetup, we will make a movie together. Caelan Huntress will demo image generation using concepts crowdsourced from the audience, and Arthur Machado will craft video assets from those images during the event. Drinks, demos, and practical takeaways included.

Meetup with your local AI community on the First Monday of March at EPIC Innovation:

5:30–6:00 pm — Drinks & Networking
6:00–6:45 pm — Ai Image Generation — Caelan Huntress
6:45–7:30 pm — Ai Video Generation — Arthur Machado
7:30–8:00 pm — Drinks & Open Q&A

Ai Image Generation — Caelan Huntress
Making images in the age of Ai only requires imagination. Visual art is no longer limited by skill or craft. Anyone with an idea can make an image in any style with Ai. Now you can generate any image you can describe. The tools have become so simple, we are all artists now. Your willingness to refine and revise, to use your creative taste, matters more than your skill with a brush or a tool.

After this session, you will gain practical insights into how you can:

• Create multiple image concepts with parallel prompting
• Use the 5-step Creative Process to manage a volume of ideas
• Develop a reusable prompt for your signature artistic style

Ai Video Generation — Arthur Machado
Big ideas can become high quality videos with only a text prompt. Producing video content used to require access to equipment, and talent, and funding. Now, you don't need a movie studio, or a graphics budget, or even skills. Just a good idea (and good taste!) can make a good movie, with a little prompting.

You will learn:

• The difference between generation models and aggregators
• How to segment your focus from exploration to production
• The 3 methods of generating videos with AI