JANNINE EADES SERVICESProfessional Educational Training (PET) pets.eadesltd@gmail.com For Health, Education, and Social Service Professionals
“Finding that balance – using the Whare Tapa Wha and other Māori models to address anxiety in young adults” Friday 1st October 2021 – from 9.00am – 3.30pm (Registrations: 8.30am – 9.00am) Venue: Tauranga RSA, 1237 Cameron Road, Greerton, Tauranga This workshop offers insight into how a focus on using a kaupapa Māori approach to health and wellbeing in mainstream health, education and social service settings can assist with treatment of anxiety in young adults. The Whare Tapa Wha (WTW) Māori health and wellbeing model is now embedded in the general New Zealand health system. However, the model isn’t necessarily well utilised as a teaching and learning tool. Course participants will be involved in an ‘ako’ process, sharing their knowledge, understanding and experience of the WTW model, which IBA (Imagine, Believe, Achieve Programme) uses as a starting point to self-understanding and personal goal setting. After an examination of what it is, course participants will be invited to discuss how they utilise the model (or might utilise it), and what they might do to ensure that their clients, through understanding the model, can have a more ‘balanced’ life. Course participants will be asked to consider a number of core Māori values such as Whakaute/Respect, Manaakitanga/Kindness, Whakapono/Trust, Manawaroa/Resilience and Takohanga/Responsibility and how these relate to the model. The discussions will also include reference to core concepts such as tikanga (appropriate procedure), mauri (life force), whakapapa (genealogy), pepeha (tribal sayings) and whakataukī (significant sayings, aphorisms), and how such concepts might fit into or around the WTW model. Finally, participants will be introduced to different case studies, to examine how the WTW model and the core values and concepts play out in the lives of the youth we deal with – particularly the kinds of youth we deal with in the IBA programme. Course participants will be asked to examine the case studies and suggest ways that they might address the kinds of issues that each one raises, using the Māori concepts discussed – and any other related ideas that they might wish to add. The Presenters: The Bay of Plenty Youth Development Trust’s IBA programme has been set up for ‘NEET’ youth – those 15 to 24-year-olds not in education, employment or training. A large number of these youth suffer from a total lack of self-confidence, high anxiety, deep trauma, and different longstanding psychological problems that often require expert support. As a result, many are unemployable. IBA’s challenge is to get the participants into jobs. Andre Jay (IBA Tutor) has been a teacher for over twenty years – particularly of very young primary aged children. He therefore brings perfect work experience for working with older IBA youth, as what he sees in beginning learners is often echoed and replicated in the behaviour of older youth. Paora Howe (IBA Kaitohutohu/Advisor) is an educationist whose use of Māori measures in people development has become a natural extension of his past work experiences. Together the presenters are building a style of delivery that looks through the Whare Tapa Wha lens as one of the main tools they use to effect meaningful change. Be prepared to actively participate in the workshop. Cost $155.00 per person Morning and afternoon tea will be provided To register please email: pets.eadesltd@gmail.com Registrations close 24th September 2021 – there will be no refunds after this date Any further queries please make contact with Jannine Eades (0211865081)