Tane Ma! E Tu!
A call to men! Make a stand!
21-23 September 2012
Organised by the Te Kupenga/National Network Stopping Violence Services, Tauawhi Men’s Centre, Tairawhiti Men Against Violence and Ngati Porou Hauora.
Join us for a Men’s Hui to end violence that includes a breakfast with Chief Family Court Judge Peter Boshier; key note addresses from Harry Ngata – former All White and White Ribbon Ambassador, Sam Chapman – Winner of the Local Hero Award at the New Zealander of the Year Awards, presentations from the White Ribbon and It’s Not OK Campaigns, and Jude Simpson – Family Violence Advocate for Presbyterian Support Northern, and Kristen Dunne-Powell (Family Violence survivor and Sophie Elliott Foundation Trust member ) and many many more.
The hui will also provide a fantastic platform for stimulating discussion and activities such as traditional Maori food gathering and preparation designed to help men think about the multiple roles they have in supporting and role modelling healthy and respectful relationships in their whanau.
This registration fee covers food, accommodation (Friday and Saturday), speakers, activities and free resources. This low cost is only made possible through the support of the local community, Te Kupenga/National Network Stopping Violence, Tauawhi Men’s Centre, Tairawhiti Men Against Violence, Ngati Porou Hauora, White Ribbon and It’s Not OK.
Book now if you want to:
- Build connections and support networks
- Build men’s knowledge of the impacts of violence on women
- Identify and share effective practice
- Look at social change campaigns such as “White Ribbon” and “It’s not Ok” and how as men we can understand, inform, and champion these approaches
- Explore different cultural paradigms that can support our work, with a key focus on working with Maori and cross culturally
- Challenge constructions of masculinity that underpin men’s violence such as entitlement and privilege
- Explore cultural knowledges, values, beliefs and practices that build respectful and enhancing relationships with the women, children and men in our lives.