Mana Wāhine Week 2025

Mana Wāhine Week 2025 is just around the corner! Check out what we have organised so far and get in touch if you can help - kiaora@heartmovement.org.nz

The Details

What - The week is going to be full of workshops, wānanga, healing, connection, kai and joy. We’re going to create spaces to talk about everything that happens in the life cycle of being a woman... Getting our periods, virginity, fertility, miscarriage, menopause and more! We’re aiming for a powerful, free and inclusive event that supports wāhine of all ages and stages, including māmā (we’ll try to have babysitting too!). The schedule will be announced Wednesday 27th August.

When - The second week of the school holidays, our Opening Ceremony will be on Sunday 29th September, there will be three sessions per weekday and we will end with our Celebration Ball on 3rd October 2025.

Where - All sessions will take place in Tāmaki (East Auckland).

Why - The overarching focus of Mana Wāhine Week is celebration of women, and the focus of the HEART Movement is building healthy relationships, with a focus on preventing family violence. All activities will be aligned to our Theory of Change which is built around the key phases of personal and community change, towards healthy relationships.

How - Mana Wāhine Week 2025 will be a real community collaboration with our Partner and Member Organisations hosting each kaupapa and our Change Agents taking the lead and making decisions. The HEART Movement is a community initiative and will always be community-led in everything we do.

The Schedule

Check out what’s planned so far below…

Opening Ceremony

The Opening Ceremony will take place from 2pm-4pm on Sunday 28th September 2025. The working group hui will decide on the schedule of the Opening Ceremony but it will be a celebration of women and what’s to come over the week, plus some time to mix and mingle.

To volunteer your time, aroha and skills, please complete our Volunteer Sign Up form.

Kaupapa over the week

During the weekdays, Monday 29th Sept - Friday 3rd Oct, there will be three sessions per day (10am-11.30am / 12.30pm-2pm / 6.30pm-8pm). Each day will centre on a pou of Te Whare Tapa Whā and include kaupapa like healthy relationships, fertility, rongoā, periods, miscarriage, menopause, pampering, and storytelling.

The kaupapa for these sessions will be decided by our working group hui and the schedule will be announced Wednesday 27th August.

To volunteer your time, aroha and skills, please complete our Volunteer Sign Up form.

Change Agent Chill Zone

We are looking to organise a central hub over the week, where our Change Agents will hold space for anyone who would like to come and have meaningful conversations! This will be in a central venue and Change Agents will be rostered on to stay for an hour or two at a time. We will “go live” on social media for a kōrero about an aspect of te whare tapa whā which is our theme for that day, similar to how we did during covid lockdowns - with a focus on wellbeing. Check out the playlist on Facebook and our blog post on how that went and all the wonderful Change Agents who made it happen.

We need Change Agents to put their hands up to hold this space over Mana Wāhine Week 2025 - to volunteer your time, aroha and skills, please complete our Change Agent Chill Zone Sign Up form.

Celebration Ball

It won’t all be serious conversations, we are so excited to be ending Mana Wāhine Week with a Celebration Ball! Where we can dress up and be fancy, we’ll have a photoboard from the week, share kai, we’ll have a photographer, a female DJ and even a catwalk!

Our ball will be 6pm - 10pm, on Friday 3rd October. Stay tuned as tickets will be available soon.

To volunteer your time, aroha and skills, please complete our Volunteer Sign Up form.

People Power

We need your help! Please let us know if you can support in any way. Feel free to subscribe to our public calendar to add our hui and the week to your calendar, and please forward this on to other mana wāhine you know will be interested!

Working Group

Join us at our working group hui which will take place on 10.30am at Glen Innes Library (by the kitchenette next to the service desk) on,

• Wednesday 13th August

• Wednesday 27th August

• Wednesday 10th September

• Wednesday 24th September

Volunteers

We need support with events, promotion, funding, capturing the week, decorating at the ball and more… Please complete our Volunteer Sign Up form if you would like to offer your time and aroha before or during Mana Wāhine Week - we can’t do it without you!

Funding

Mana Wāhine Week couldn't take place without the generosity of our community and funders. Please download our Funding Proposal and feel free to share it with anyone who might like to support this incredible kaupapa to take place. More pūtea means we can do it better, reach more people, and honour the time of those making it happen.

Please email kiaora@heartmovement.org.nz and let us know if you have any questions!