Our Mana Wāhine Symposium 2026 is just around the corner!

We are absolutely thrilled and so proud to announce the Mana Wāhine Symposium 2026, a free, joyful, and inclusive celebration for wāhine at every stage of life! Expect inspiring workshops, heartfelt wānanga, restorative healing, meaningful connection, and nourishing kai.

The Mana Wāhine Symposium is about creating a space for wāhine to come together, share kōrero and experiences, and support one another through the different seasons and stages of being a woman. This is a regular symposium that The HEART Movement has been putting on for the community over the years in collaboration with our Partner and Member Organisations. The HEART Movement is a community initiative and will always be community-led in everything we do.

All Mana Wāhine Symposium spaces are provided specifically for those who identify as wāhine and women. This helps us protect the purpose of the kaupapa and create spaces that are safe, empowering and affirming.

TE AO ME TE PŌ | the duality of women, of life, of the world

This year's theme is centred around the idea of Te Ao me Te Pō, the light and the dark, those lighter and heavier spaces we journey through as women, and everything that exists in between. This kaupapa is very much about embracing, supporting and uplifting wāhine.

In te ao Māori cosmology, Te Pō is the fertile darkness from which all life emerges, the realm of Papatūānuku and the space of gestation, rest, and transformation before Te Ao Mārama, the world of light. Mana Wāhine Symposium 2026 draws on this whakaaro to honour the fullness of wāhine experience: the light and the dark, the joy and the grief, the growth and the rest. Just as night gives way to dawn, Te Pō holds the wisdom, healing, and quiet strength that shapes who we become in Te Ao. This symposium creates space for both - celebrating wāhine not despite their complexity, but because of it.

Check out our incredible schedule below…

For more details on every kaupapa, and the symposium in entirety! Please check out our webpage…