2025 Workshops
These online sessions were open to all kaimahi and tauira of Te Wānanga o Aotearoa throughout 2025.
Indigi-Inspo Tips
Poems Marama Vibes With
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Poetry Month
Te Reo Māori session about poetry, creativity, and translation with Te Mihinga and Tiahomarama Fairhall.
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Indigenous poetry writing - spend time writing poems together.
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Open Mic Ops
We are hoping to create opportunities for open mic.
To read poems, share and listen with others.
If you are interested in joining us or to find out more email rangahau@twoa.ac.nz
Zine Making
What are Zines?
Womens’ Hauora Kaupapa
Wāhine Ora & Kai Ora
Join us for an engaging and interactive kōrero exploring the vital connection between kai and the wellbeing of wāhine. This workshop will delve into themes such as kai, rongoā, food sovereignty, and nutrition, highlighting how nourishing our bodies and minds through kai is central to nurturing whānau and community wellbeing. Through discussion we’ll celebrate the role of wāhine in reclaiming kai knowledge, revitalising mātauranga Maori and leading holistics approaches to hauora.
The Tree of Life
A speaker and acclaimed author of Te Arawa – Ngati Pikiao, Tuhoe descent, gained widespread recognition for her keynote address at the Turamarama Ki Te Ora World Indigenous Conference in Aotearoa. Her poignant narrative revolves around the profound grief she endured, having lost 2 sons - one in a tragic car accident and the other to suicide. Parts of her journey through this heart-wrenching experience is captured in the pages of her book, "The Tree of Life - My Journey with Grief, demonstrating a deep commitment to supporting others, Heeni has spent the past 5 plus years dedicating herself to voluntary work, offering invaluable tools and unwavering assistance and support to families and individuals navigating challenging circumstances. Heeni is also a founding member of Te Ariki Foundation created to continue supporting families throughout her community and provide various coping mechanisms to help others through grief and well-being.
Mauritau, an Indigenous state of calm, balance, and presence, offers ancestral solutions for the wellbeing of wāhine in today’s fast-moving world
Grounded in mātauranga Māori, mauritau nurtures the mind, body, land, and heart through deeply relational practices such as karakia, waiata, connecting with nature, and strengthening whanaungatanga. This workshop will explore the intersections of mauritau, women’s wellbeing, and contemplative strategies, weaving together lived experience and rangahau to offer practical approaches for everyday life. Together, we will reflect, practise, and reimagine pathways to wellbeing that are culturally grounded, spiritually enriching, and collectively sustaining.
Survivorship, Screening, and Shaping Hauora
Join facilitator Nadine Riwai, as she shares her journey in women’s hauora — drawing on the many pōtae we have as wāhine, her years of nursing, the Smear Your Mea campaign as well as her lived experiences of surviving domestic violence, navigating the courts, and healing from PTSD. These powerful insights shape her PhD research, which asks how cancer screening in Aotearoa can truly uphold mana, centre whānau, and be guided by kaupapa Māori approaches.
Bro-Vember Series
Maramataka Māori with Rikki Solomon
A respected mātanga of the maramataka Māori, Rikki weaves this mātauranga into his work as a funeral director. A graduate of He Waka Hiringa: Masters in Applied Indigenous Knowledge, he champions Māori-centred approaches to wellbeing.
Mana Tāne through cultural expression - is giving our tāne/rangatahi Māori a space to explore their inner creativity through culture and music. Toi Pūmanawa – A guitaring kaupapa Eugene Temara created for Tāne Rangatahi that builds the capability and capacity within Te Arawa and the motu to build the next best guitarist and composers of the future. Using Kapa Haka as the vehicle to explore their potential and take it to the world. Culture is the foundation, creativity and innovation is the key to building successful Tāne, Rangatahi Māori.
His Journey through Prostate Cancer - August 23rd, 2023 two years ago, a day I will never forget. It was the day when I got one of those calls you never dream of. It was the specialist and he said, "Mr Flavell, this is not a conversation I like having on the phone but I need to tell you that you have Stage 4 Prostate cancer!!!" My life changed that day. It was the same day when my wife learnt that she would receive her PhD. It went from happy and proud to...... hell I am going to die soon!!! I have learnt so many lessons these last two years and I want to pass those on. Whether it be Cervical cancer or Prostate cancer, these are whanau kaupapa, they can affect relationships so we must talk about it together tane and wahine. Despite the treatments etc, I have been very lucky. There are others like me but unfortunately others are not so lucky. Maori die at twice the rate of others because we present too late to the doctor. It can be so different so lets have a kōrero.
Tū and Rongo: Reclaiming Māori Masculinity Through Balance
Tu (Tuhoe, Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Hauiti) who has just completed his 3 month residency with Te Manawahoukura and will discuss his Kaupapa Rangahau. After getting a taste for Te Manawahoukura with the Tauira Māori Success project in 2024, his Rangahau fire was set alight. His three month residency focused on Te Mana Tāne and how constructs of Māori Masculinity influence Tāne Māori. He will discuss this Kaupapa as well as a forum for Tāne that he co-created alongside Linden Morris- He Huinga Whatukura. Hear from Russell Packer - is a former rugby league player who played for the Warriors, Tigers, Dragons and Kiwis across a 13-year professional career in the NRL a whanaunga of Tu who will also give a kōrero on his life journey.