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7 Weeks
The programme is 7 weeks long, meeting once a week.
Cost
This course is free and is us giving investing in whānau.
Lived Experience
For those with lived experience of mental distress and/or addiction.
Online
Online interactive workshops facilitated by one of the team.
Certification
You will graduate with your peers and receive a certificate.
Connection & Support
Like-minded individuals and whānau in a supportive space.
Mā Purapura Mai is a wānanga for Māori with lived experience of mental distress and/or addiction. It is 7 wānanga spread out over 7 weeks with different Māori lived experience facilitators delivering different topics.
Online Wānaga
It was first launched in 2018 as a face-to-face delivery of this program. Since the 2020 Covid pandemic, we have successfully trialled delivery of Ma Purapura Mai as an online program, which now sees this kaupapa delivered into the homes of whanau from all around Aotearoa.
Lived Experience
Participants will have whakapapa Māori connections and lived experience of hauora hinengaro (mental health) and/or harmful substance use (AOD). It will be co-facilitated by 6 Māori lived experience leaders to share different aspects of leadership through a Te Ao Māori worldview.
Content
Each topic focuses on leadership, and the Māori Leadership values. Some of the content includes Te Whare Tapa Wha, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, Māori leadership frameworks and reflexive vs reflective practices.
Over the past decade, the need to build the Māori workforce capacity in health has been featured in National audits, reports and recommendations in Aotearoa, with very minimal progress. Māori ambitions to strengthen the health and care workforce development around the country highlighted the need for trained clinical and cultural practitioners, peers, auditors, evaluators, educators, advocates and researchers.
Fundamentally, to grow the Māori lived experience workforce, whanau needed the opportunity to realize their innate potential handed down through their whakapapa or ancestral chieftain bloodlines.
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After attending the Tapuhi Angitu Māori Nursing Leadership Program in 2018, Māori lived experience leader and advocate Kerri Butler began to mobilize these hopes and aspirations to grow the potential and leadership qualities of Māori with lived experience - Tino rangatiratanga.
From October 2018 to June 2019, we listened to the voice of whānau, who essentially inspired the launch of the Mā Purapura Mai programme.
Three wananga were facilitated with these extraordinary people who dedicated their time and energy to develop the Mā Purapura Mai program. Four values - Kaitiakitanga, Wairuatanga, Mana, & Whanaungatanga - were identified during these wānanga that uphold peer values and now underpins the Mā Purapura Mai model.
Kaumatua, Witi Ashby gifted the name Mā Purapura Mai expressing the meaning as: “Brightness of oneself or light, or glowing of energy, and using it as a positive statement for oneself, a thing or guiding someone to something”
