This month we celebrated our fourth HEART Awards ceremony. Deciding on HEART Awards this year was a very humbling process.
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“Our children are dying. Men are dying. There are men dying because they keep being told to harden up. To not cry. To hide their feelings…Being hard and being told to harden up might be why they couldn’t open up to their wives or children about their struggles. Being hard might be why none of their friends ever saw that they were hurting so very, very much.”
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At the beginning of 2018, we shifted our focus after feedback from whānau and youth, to youth wellbeing.
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Women’s Koru Group supports us to explore our identities and become a community of women that support each other.
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These donations have allowed HEART to buy food to feed our community at community events that we host.
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"for as long as a community is NOT talking openly about sexual abuse and sexual boundaries – all pedophiles feel safe, and will continue to carry out their acts".
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we are all on our own unique journeys of how we engage with our communities and how we actively use the TIES tools and approaches, is how we will grow.
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“hold the hope for whānau until they’ve found it for themselves” Peter Thorburn
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The important thing for HEART is to create spaces where the community can gather, connect and have fun together.
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What a great start to the year building happy and healthy relationships with those around in a collaborative and sharing manner.
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there is no set topic for conversations at Koru Group, so once the conversation gets going it’s like we’re all around a big soup pot, each adding ingredients in the form of our thoughts, stories, and reflections, so we don’t know what kind of soup it’s going to turn out to be – is it pea and ham or is it going to be vegetable soup? And in the end, it’s a soup bursting with so much flavour, that we could not have made it individually on our own.
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It's relationship building, it's role modeling, it's warm community space creating, it’s gentle challenging, it's connection making. It's unique. And we love it.
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“What little change can you do in your own home and family?”
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The HEART Awards are a simple way to celebrate and acknowledge the work of all involved with the HEART Movement.
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Brian, a local here in Tamaki, who attends a lot of our activities recently called our spaces “Pockets of Hope”.
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The HEART Movement works to promote positive healthy relationships and prevent family violence. Our vision is a community where loving, safe, and supportive relationships are created and nurtured.
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In the Spring of 2014, 18 talented young musicians participated in East HEART Unplugged, a youth initiative of the HEART Movement.
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