Wānanga is one way you can bring tūpuna Māori parenting ways into your whare or workplace. You, your whānau or your organisation can choose how you want to learn this mātauranga.
Tūpuna parenting strategies
Grounded in our mātauranga, we can support you to decolonise your parenting with your whānau.
Practical solutions to modern whānau situations
This journey doesn't just share mātauranga; it helps whānau apply it in real-life parenting moments.
Inspiring & empowering wānanga
These are mana-enhancing, supportive and strengths-based wānanga, adapting the kaupapa to be relevant to you.
These wānanga ā-kanohi are delivered by our team at Tūpuna Parenting or by our Ngākau Aroha graduates from across the motu. Our graduates hold the mātauranga and are keen to share it!
Reach out to them to have a kōrero, find out if they're running wānanga or other kaupapa they may be involved with.
They will be weaving tūpuna parenting mātauranga into a lot of what they do!
Paihia
- Maureen Tana (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine), ME Family Services
Whangarei
- Kelly Heke (Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi), Whangarei Family Centre, Whānau Āwhina Plunket
Kaiwaka
- Cherries Christy-Hita (Ngati Kahungunu), Kaiwaka Plunket Clinic, Whānau Āwhina Plunket
Central Auckland
- Elizabeth Emere Harte (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou), Tūpuna Parenting roopu
West Auckland
- Mya Steele-Fonokalafi (Ngati Whatua o Kaipara), Tūpuna Parenting roopu
Manukau
- Louise Craig-Pullan (Ngāpuhi), Te Whare Ruruhau O Meri
Tokoroa
- Newton Thompson (Ngāti Raukawa), Tūpuna Parenting roopu
- Rangimarie Day (Ngāti Raukawa,Ngāti Maniapoto), Raukawa Charitable Trust
Gisborne
- Kaa Te Mihi Puketapu (Ngāti Porou), Rongoa Practitioner
- Renee Papuni (Te Whakatōhea), Mokopuna Mataara - travels all over coast
Foxton
- Jo-Maitera Hall (Ngāti Toa Rangatira), Tūpuna Parenting roopu
Palmerston North
- Nicole Mincher (Te Aupōuri), Educational Psychologist
Dannevirke
- Krystle Hetariki (Rangitāne, Muaūpoko, Ngāti Kahungunu), Te Kete Hauora o Rangitāne o Tamaki nui a Rua
Ōtautahi (Christchurch)
- Emma Rolleston (Ngāi Te Rangi), Tī Wana Services
- Coral Murphy (Ngāti Kahungunu), Te Puawaitanga ki Ōtautahi Trust
- Rebekah Fraser (Ngāti Porou), STOP
Kaikōura
- Helen Tindall (Pakeha), Te Tai O Marokura
Greymouth
- Eli Maiava (Waitaha, Ngāti Mamoe, Kai Tahu), Te Whare Manaaki o Te Tai Poutini
Hokitika
- Davida Simpson (Kati Waewae), Te Hono o Ngā Waka
- Amber van der Krogt, (Poutini Waiora)
Temuka
- Jo Fortune (Tuwharetoa), Arowhenua Whānau Services
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If there’s something else you need from our team to do with whānau, whānau wānanga or sharing our kaupapa in your community or organisation, reach out and let us know.
Do you or your organisation support Māori whānau for your mahi? Would you like your kaimahi to reframe and decolonise their mahi? Then find out more about Ngākau Aroha for Kaimahi.