Mana Wāhine Week 2025
Mana Wāhine Week 2025 is just around the corner! Check out what has been organised, register links for each kaupapa will be available soon and click through to volunteer here…
Contact Ren with any questions - kiaora@heartmovement.org.nz
The Schedule
Notes on each kaupapa
Find out more about each kaupapa below…
The Opening Ceremony will take place from 4pm-6pm on Sunday 28th September 2025. The working group 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.
Check out the Facebook event and 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). The week will be full of workshops, wānanga, healing, connection, kai and joy.
The kaupapa for these sessions has been decided by our working group and there is something for everyone!
To volunteer your time, aroha and skills, please complete our Volunteer Sign Up form.
Youth Kaupapa
We are excited to be collaborating with Connect1072 and Tāmaki Youth Council to provide a youth kaupapa each day! Check out the youth calendar which runs alongside our adult sessions…
Change Agent Chill Zone
We are organising 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 held in Glen Innes Library and Change Agents will be rostered on to stay for an hour or two at a time. There will be an activity to keep your hands busy and people will be welcomed to have kōrero with our “no judgement, no advice” koru group vibes…
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.
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.
Check out the Facebook event and 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 10th September
Wednesday 24th September
Feel free to subscribe to our public calendar to add all hui to your calendar, let Ren know on kiaora@heartmovement.org.nz if you need support to do so.
Volunteers
We need support with events, promotion, funding, capturing it all, 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!
Ngā mihi nunui!
We would like to thank our team of funders and supporters (profusely!) for everything that has come together to make Mana Wāhine Week 2025 what it is - and is going to be!
Our funders who are ensuring we have the means to put it all together include Rākau Tautoko, Tāmaki Regeneration Company and Maungakiekie- Tāmaki Local Board. Thank you!! Click their links to see their websites and the wonderful work they each do for our communities.
Organisations who are giving (including and not limited to…) their time, use of venues, koha, kai, generous donations, amazing expertise, support with promotion, abundant resources, boundless energy, and more! Include (in no particular order)…
And more..
We thank you all profusely, and are excited to see our week happen, and know you are too!
Please email kiaora@heartmovement.org.nz and let us know if you have any questions.
“When we think that we have to do everything on our own,
it’s sort of an unhealthy relationship with ourselves.”