They are our future and with young adults of my own, there are stories that we still haven't heard and I know, domestic violence is a respecter of none. Thank you our future leaders.
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the importance of accessibility of these training workshops and how communities have a role to play in their own health."
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We each have different roles as kaitiaki that are unique to who we are as people and the connections with have in the community.
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Our focus around working on alcohol harm minimization continues, and this month we hosted some great conversations at our Masculine Norms and Alcohol Harm Training with Peter Thorburn.
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This is a hard space, and parents expressed that when placed in that situation not knowing how to deal with it and always worrying if they are doing the right thing or not.
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The attendance surpassed all expectations, and we had a full house with around 110 women coming in to celebrate International Women’s Day with us.
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This year was the second White Ribbon March to stop violence against women in Tāmaki.
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Our beloved HEART barbeque trailer has been serving the community for years. We decided it’s in need of a revamp and instead of painting it quietly in a garage; we made a big song and dance about painting it.
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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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