Fill your kete – this is the first online wānanga/workshop this year relating to Māori Health Promotion. This year’s series of webishops will profile different Maori-based health organisations around Aotearoa. The first webishop features Te Kaha o te Whānau – a mainstream organisation working in the heart of South Auckland. The webishop will explore what it looks like to be a Treaty based organisation. It will also examine some Maori based approaches to health determinants, and how organisations must change how they operate in order to serve Māori communities and honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the appropriate manner.

Learning outcomes

As a result of attending this workshop, participants will:

• Learn how Te Tiriti o Waitangi affects the way organisations should/can operate in Aotearoa

• Learn about Maori approaches and models to health determinants, and how their own organisations can create the same environment for their staff and clients

• Learn how Maori concepts of the environment supports and contributes planetary health

Facilitator:

Mereana Te Pere (Waitaha, Tapuika, Ngāti Ranginui) – Mereana has recently joined the team as a Māori Health Promotion Strategist. She comes to our organisation having worked predominantly in the education sector with Māori and rangatahi. Her future goals are in elevating the skills and knowledge of the work force to better meet the health needs and rights of Māori communities and whānau.

Guest Speaker:

Wati Waru (Te Rarawa) – Wati has recently joined the team at Te Kaha o te Whānau as a facilitator and co-developer of ‘Awhina’ – a whanau resilience model that empowers families to develop their own health outcomes and the plan that achieves them. Te Kaha o te Whānau also work with other organisations to support this new approach, and how to overcome the trials associated with challenging how mainstream NZ view Maori and their health.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Participants are encouraged to participate in the exercises and material that will be disseminated before the webishop

Contact Emma Frost for further information on emma@hauora.co.nz or 09 300 3734 or visit our website www.hauora.co.nz.