Community Talk with Matt Brown

Name: Community Talk with Matt Brown
Start: 2026-03-09T18:30:00+1300
End: 2026-03-09T21:15:00+1300
Location: Kaikoura Memorial Hall

Mon, 9 Mar, 6:30pm - 9:15pm NZDT

Kaikoura Memorial Hall

Kaikōura, New Zealand

Hikitia! RISE’s ACC funded primary Prevention Mahi

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Join us in Kaikōura for a powerful Community Talk with Matt Brown, co‑founder of She Is Not Your Rehab and an internationally recognised advocate for healing, healthy masculinity, and violence prevention.

Through his honest storytelling and trauma‑informed approach, Matt invites communities to rethink old narratives, embrace responsibility, and support healthier relationships for future generations. This kōrero offers hope, challenge, and a pathway toward a safer, more empathetic society.

Matt’s kōrero explores themes such as innovative approaches to family violence prevention, the role of community in collective healing, overcoming shame, healing from trauma, redefining masculinity, and engaging men in preventing intimate partner violence. He also shares the journey of growing a grassroots kaupapa into a global movement.

Audiences across Aotearoa describe Matt’s talks as “life‑changing,” “the highlight of the conference,” “powerful and necessary,” and “deeply inspiring.”

This is a FREE community event with kai provided, plus space to connect and debrief after the kōrero. Suitable for ages 14+.

This Community Talk with Matt Brown is proudly supported by Hikitia!, Kaikōura District Council, and Barnardos Aotearoa.

Ngā mihi nui,

Hikitia! Team

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Hikitia! is a community-led initiative funded by ACC as part of Te Aorerekura, the National Strategy to Eliminate Family Violence and Sexual Violence.

This work is focused on creating long-term change by transforming the conditions that lead to and maintain sexual violence, family violence, and child sexual abuse in our communities. Five organisations gained contracts in the first round, and RISE is happy to be one of these first five groups.

In Te Tauihu, Hikitia! For Our Future works across a geographical area that includes Whakatū (Nelson), Waimea (Richmond), Mahua (Golden Bay), and Te Waiharakeke (Marlborough).

What the Hikitia! kaimahi (staff) are focused on/doing?

More than 2000 men have engaged with RISE’s non-violence and dad’s programmes over the years and RISE consistently receives feedback from men that they want to do more.

RISE Hikitia! works with men as powerful allies and leaders in their communities who can challenge harmful behaviour.

Drawing from the insights of these men, alongside the voices of tamariki (children) and rangatahi (youth), whānau and families, those working in the Family Violence and Sexual Violence fields, and research and literature, Hikitia! contributes to three overarching long-term national and regional outcomes:

Mokopuna Ora: protecting the whakapapa of our tamariki, rangatahi and whānau;
Communities are safe, inclusive spaces where children, young people and whānau flourish; and
Primary prevention is prioritised across the family and sexual violence system.

Hikitia! aims to address the underlying causes, or drivers, of sexual and family violence (e.g. social norms, practices and structures that influence attitudes and behaviours) through a systems change approach to primary prevention.

This could look like local storytelling activities to shift mindsets and social norms towards safety, equity and respect. Or partnering with local councils to address high-risk areas.

Crucially, Hikitia! is not focused on service delivery – it focuses on building the infrastructure (workforce, strategy, etc) to support a high-functioning prevention system by working with partners and the community to:

Increase coordination and alignment of sexual violence and family violence prevention (including child sexual abuse prevention),

Identify, implement and leverage initiatives that strengthen protective factors and transform the conditions (including policies, practices, resource flows, relationships, power dynamics etc) that hold sexual violence and family violence in place, and

Enable and activate local leadership to take action to prevent violence.

Together, we will build a future where mana is upheld, whakapapa is honoured, and healthy relationships are achieved.

Meet RISE’s Hikitia! team working to prevent family violence and sexual violence — RISE

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Mon, 9 Mar, 6:30pm - 9:15pm NZDT

Kaikoura Memorial Hall

Kaikōura, New Zealand

Hosted by Hikitia! RISE’s ACC funded primary Prevention Mahi

Community Talk with Matt Brown

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