Wānanga is one way you can bring tūpuna Māori parenting ways into your whare or workplace. An 8-week kaupapa to empower whānau and kaimahi with mātauranga - over 250 attendees have completed this journey. Will you be next?
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.
99.1% Value for Whānau
99.1% of attendees rated the journey as useful for their whānau, giving the overall programme an average rating of 4.79 out of 5 stars.
97.3% Positive Tamariki Impact
97.30% of participants observed positive improvements in their children's behaviour, responsiveness, and overall wellness.
96.0% Enhanced Mental Wellbeing
95.95% of whānau reported improved mental wellbeing, experiencing reduced stress, stronger resilience, trauma healing, and better coping skills.
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!
Kaitaia
- Moenga Leef (Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri), Te Hihu Hauora
Karikari Peninsula
- Maddie Brosnan (Te Ātiawa), Kaitiakimama
Paihia
- Maureen Tana (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Hine), ME Family Services
Whangarei
- Neisha Wilson-Hita (Ngati Whatua, Te Atiawa) Kaitautoko @ Tūpuna Parenting
Kaiwaka
- Cherrie Christy-Hita (Ngati Kahungunu), Kaiwaka Plunket Clinic, Whānau Āwhina Plunket
North Auckland
- Holly Aymes (Ngāti Porou, Rongowhakaata, Ngāti Kahungungu), Steps Forward
Central Auckland
- Elizabeth Emere Harte (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Porou), Tūpuna Parenting roopu
West Auckland
- Mya Steele-Fonokalafi (Ngati Whatua o Kaipara), Tūpuna Parenting roopu
- Keri Milich (Ngāpuhi), Whare Hau Ako
South Auckland
- Donna Fane (Ngāti Whakaue, Ngāti Tuwharetoa, Ngāti Rereahu, Ngāti Makino), Manukau Whānau Āwhina Plunket
- Louise Craig-Pullan (Ngāpuhi), Te Whare Ruruhau O Meri
Kirikiriroa
- Leah Pickering (Waikato Tainui, Ngāti Kahungunu), Hamilton Whānau Āwhina Plunket
- Jerrie Uerata (Ngati Maniapoto, Ngati Mahanga, Ngati Tumainupo), Te Kahao Health
- Maria McCaskill (Tainui, Ngati Tuwharetoa), Kirikiriroa Marae
Otorohanga
- Rawinia Hohua (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Maniapoto), Kanapu Retreat
Tokoroa
- Newton Thompson (Ngāti Raukawa), HUE Collective
- Rangimarie Day (Ngāti Raukawa,Ngāti Maniapoto), Raukawa Charitable Trust
Te Araroa
- Kaa Te Mihi Puketapu (Ngāti Porou), Rongoa Practitioner
- Renee Papuni (Te Whakatōhea), Mokopuna Mataara - travels all over coast
Gisborne
- Kaniwa Kupenga-Tamarama (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Maui, Ngāti Hikairo, Ngāti Apakura), Kia Kaha Māmā
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.