TE RĀ TUATORU DAY THREE
Pātikitiki is a forum for kaimahi Māori to whakawhanaunga, celebrate & share Māori Frameworks utilised in practice. The kaupapa recognises the unique contribution kaimahi Māori make to uplift and protect mauri in the journey of whānau wellbeing. The tohu and name of the symposium are symbolic of the pātiki and represents favourable conditions, abundance. As kaimahi Māori, this is the environment we aim to create with our frameworks to inspire whānau to achieve their aspirations.
Ruhia King
Waikato-Maniapoto
Rongo Puungao = Energy Healing
Ruhia will provide an introduction in how to move energy to help with healing, using a quick and easy routine that takes just a few minutes every day to build your immune system, give you energy, make you feel younger, and relieves pain. In five to seven minutes every day you too can establish positive “energy habits” in your body which strengthens your immune systems and help you navigate through the stresses we all face today. Doing the daily energy routine helped me, it can help you, your family members, co-workers and people you work with to help make a difference in their lives.
Kelly Carter
Ngāti Te Rangi, Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Ngāpuhi
Healing Through Horticulture
Kelly will share briefly the journey of finding her ‘purpose’ through her love of nature, growing and cultivating plants since a young age.
She shares how she started her business Kete Ora Plants in April 2020 when Covid19 began. Kelly will share it’s Kaupapa & its goals to heal the whenua of Aotearoa and help restore the whenua for future generations and our wildlife taonga. She will share her ‘all-consuming vision’ of the business, it’s mission and her nationwide search of New Zealanders
becoming kaitiaki of a Kete Ora taonga and a couple of fun things about her Kete Ora plants.
Her presentation will focus on how healing the whenua can help also with emotional and mental healing through Horticulture Therapy. She believes that although it has a
‘modern-day’ title now, Horticultural Therapy was practiced by our tipuna. She shares a personal view and experience on horticulture therapy and how healing ones hauora wairua
(Spiritual Health) and hauora hinengaro (Mental Health) through horticulture, can help re-connect to oneself and nature to help through the everyday stresses that affect us mentally and emotionally and how a person today, in 2021, can participate and immerse oneself in Horticulture Therapy from home and in nature.
Paora Te Hurihanganui
Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Te Arawa, Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Te Whare o Ngātoro…. Wellbeing potentiality through ancestral profiling
What systems of ‘oranga’ were utilised by our tupuna to maintain optimum health and wellbeing and why would these become important for the realisation of individual and collective health and wellbeing potential today? While the health reality and poor status of Māori has been well researched from scientific and clinical perspectives, harshly publicised by media and used dramatically for political positioning by Maori and non-Maori alike, there are very little Hapū and Iwi centric responses by, from, for, or as Māori for the improvement of Maori health and wellbeing. Important as Māori and as Te Arawa frameworks will be shared to provide examples of system dynamics in play.
Ngamaru Raerino
Ngāti Awa, Ngāti Rangiwewehi, Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa
Ta Taipakeke: Ka hua te Rata; The Rata blossoms….
This presentation is an insight and discourse into a group of elderly venerable people over the age of sixty-five years. Primarily they exercise, have fun and engage in a variety of social and community activities. Many come from a diverse range of backgrounds, race and social stratification. The group objective is to attain a fit and healthy disposition, enjoy the activities have fun and be happy.
These objectives and activities come under the mantle of cultro-linguistic alignment.
Haani Huata
Waikato-Maniapoto, Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Whakaue
Ako Wānanga
Haani has four adult children and 3 grandchildren. Haani was raised in Waikato within the Kīngitanga. She attended St. Peter Chanel’s Convent for primary school and then Scared Heart Secondary school. In order to develop her knowledge of Te Reo Māori she moved to Farifield College to study under Erana Coulter and Te Ururoa Flavell. From there she went to the University of Waikato and gained her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Māori and her Masters of Māori and Pacific Development, being the first student to do so. While tutoring in the Māori Department she also worked as a travel agent at Student Travel Association on the University of Waikato Campus.
