Being Tangata Tiriti: a Pākehā Project Taster

A one-day workshop exploring the beautiful restorative work of being tangata Tiriti in Aotearoa.

Who can we be for each other?

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We live in discombobulating times. And cracks are showing everywhere. So much that we thought was secure is shifting and changing.

But here in Aotearoa, we have an extraordinary pou—Te Tiriti o Waitangi. So much more than a legal document; we feel it in our bones. Over decades and decades, Māori have cared for and carried its promise for all of us, tangata whenua and tangata Tiriti alike. It offers us a framework for living together in our difference, in mutually enriching ways. This is gold.

Join Rebecca and Joseph from The Pākehā Project for this one-day workshop exploring the mahi we as tangata Tiriti can do in the journey towards a Tiriti-led future. We invite you into a space for gently inquiring into your unique place in the system rewiring itself. How do we show up where Māori are calling us to be? We'll be exploring relationality and worldview; the nervous system as map for working with activation; systemic racism, the orthodox Western worldview—its whakapapa and how it shows up in ourselves, our systems and society; and our roles in restorative systems change for a Tiriti-based future. It will be interactive, embodied, and nourishing.

Let's create lifeboats of coherence in this turbulent world.

We'll host you upstairs at Vogelmorn Bowling Club, in the beautiful hills of Brooklyn, Te Whanganui-a-Tara. There'll be delicious kai, and a chance to resource yourself, in communion with others. We are so looking forward to welcoming you.

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Please note that after booking our venue we learned that it had insufficient wheelchair access. We take full responsibility for this and are scheduling repeat workshops later in the year that will be fully accessible. Please feel free to contact us at admin@pakehaproject.nz for any feedback or queries about this and our future workshops.

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About the facilitators

Rebecca Sinclair (Pākehā—Scottish, English)
Rebecca is a facilitator, coach, and complex systems geek - helping her fellow Pākehā come back into the flow of life, and let go of colonial patterns that separate us from ourselves, each other, and te taiao. She is fascinated by the intangible, the improper and the in-between and how everything is always so much more extraordinary than we might think. She is an experienced tertiary educator, Co-founder of The Pākehā Project, a certified Warm Data Lab Host with the International Bateson Institute, and Honorary Research Fellow at Toi Rauwhārangi, College of Creative Arts, Massey University.

Joseph Nicholls (Pākehā— English, Welsh, Scottish, German)

Joseph facilitates group training in mental health, Tiriti education workshops and men's support groups. He joins us fresh from the Pākehā Project 2024 course as an agent for patience, curiosity, humour and manaaki while we explore and embody new perspectives. His BArch thesis unearthed links between commercial and romantic fixations that Pākehā have with this land. Having taught and practiced sustainable architecture here and abroad, Joseph is now training in counselling/therapy, while also trailing sawdust around town as a woodworker and small-project extraordinaire.

Workshop prices

We are offering choice around what you pay for this workshop.

Consider Option A ($250 + GST), if you:

own the home you live in
have investments or a retirement account
travel recreationally
have access to resources in times of need
work part time by choice
have a relatively high degree of earning power due to level of education (or gender and racial privilege, class background, etc.) Even if you are not currently exercising your earning power, we ask you to recognise this as a choice.

Consider Option B ($400 + GST), if you:

can access professional development budgets from your workplace or organisation for this workshop
are in a position to ‘pay it forward’ to cover the cost of those who are paying what they can

Consider Option C (pay what you can), if you:

have significant personal levels of debt
are an elder with limited financial support
are an unpaid community organizer
are out of work, a student or otherwise limited financially.