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We offer presentations, workshops, conversations and wānanga to strengthen community cultural connection, individual and collective awareness and reflection about the impacts of racism, all to inspire a call to action; to transform our way of being.
Indigenous Wellbeing Conference 2024
Tēnei te pō nau mai te ao: Activating Indigenous Systems Change
Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Congress 2024
Addressing Institutional Racism with Dr Diana and Tohunga Mark Kopua
Te Tiriti Based futures + Anti Racism 2024
Hongihongi te wheiwheiā is a Mahi a Atua principle that encourages a culture of feedback in order to create meaningful change and address inequities in Aotearoa. This presentation provides some feedback and wonderings on the role of Te Tiriti and racism in Aotearoa.
Tūhono Rau Tangata - Mātanga Talk 2024
Dr. Diana Kopua and tohunga Mark Kopua, leaders in reshaping and reindigenising mental health and wellbeing services across the motu and beyond.
Religious Origins of White Supremacy: Syracuse 2023
Tēnei te pō, Nau mai te ao: Āncient Māori puppetry Healing traumatic histories
Panel Discussions on The impact of the Doctrine in Aotearoa upon wellbeing and indigenous knowledge
ft Hinemoa Jones, James Webster, Tina Ngata, Rikki Solomon & Bronwyn Williams
Dr Di and Papa Mark Kopua look into how to stay connected while leaning into the discomfort of giving and receiving feedback, and its importance to the success of our individual and collective growth.
NZCCP Conference 2023
Sharing Te Kurahuna’s vision, strategy and outcomes as they expand to create social impact. The point of difference for Te Kurahuna is ‘pūrākau.’ This trademark is woven into Te Kurahuna- Mahi a Atua strategy creating new opportunities with iwi Māori and communities to reconceptualise distress, confidently design and implement frameworks and strategies that affirm Māori whakapapa and achieve whānau ora.
The Paediatric Society of New Zealand Conference 2022
Mahi a Atua, a matauranga māori approach to mental health using an indigenous transformative framework of care with Dr Diana and Tohunga Mark Kopua
Indigenous Wellbeing Conference 2022
He Haerenga - A Journey from Harm to Well-Being
Neurodiversity: Dr Diana Kopua
Dr Kopua’s desire to see meaningful change within the mental health system has led to the adoption of Mahi a Atua, a framework committed to developing indigenous systems for positive community outcomes and a therapeutic pathway that is for Māori by Māori.
Keynote address by Dr Diana Kopua and Tohunga Mark Kopua
Te Ara Whetū 2022
Te Ara Whetū is a national-level Māori health promotion workforce development hui, building Māori health promotion workforce capability and capacity in Kaupapa Māori and mātauranga Māori.
Te Kurahuna: Reinstating and Embedding Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Tairāwhiti Arts Festival 2021
Dr Diana Kopua and Paapa Mark Kopua held wānanga at Te Whare Wānanga ō Te Kurahuna
Te Putahitanga Sympoisum 2021:
Dr Diana and Mark Kopua Tohunga
Nui te Kōrero 2021
Dr Diana and Mark Kopua - Mahi a Atua - Treatment for Racism?
Films, Podcasts & Television Interviews
Explore Indigenous critical thinking through a Māori lens. This approach goes beyond identifying issues to uncover their deeper context and roots, valuing collective wisdom and the well-being of whānau, hapū, iwi, and the environment.
Published September 11 2024
Seeds of Matariki: Diana Kopua | Planting Seeds Podcast
In this episode, we share space with Dr. Diana Kopua, a Māori psychiatric specialist who incorporates pūrākau Māori through Mahi a Atua to support whānau in distress.
Published July 11th 2024
Renowned for his expertise in whakairo and moko. Paapa Mark has has significantly contributed to the practice of moko and whakairo. Paapa Mark is also a gifted storyteller. Through mahi toi and the sharing of pūrakau related to Atua Māori and kōrero tuku iho he imparts valuable lessons and insights through Mahi a Atua
Published July 4th 2024
The film is an intimate, visually stunning testament to a land and a people who have survived removal, exploitation and colonization — and to the healing ways that are part of the Māori ancestral knowledge. It juxtaposes the enduring trauma of colonialism with the resilience offered through Māori ancestral healing traditions.
Nau mai ki te whare ō Mahi-ā-atua. He whare wete here, he whare Māori!
Published Oct 30th 2022
Podcast Interview
by Ayurdhi Dhar, PhD
Published July 18 2019
With suicide at an all-time high a new Māori initiative aimed at supporting people with mental health issues in Gisborne has got a permanent home. Te Kūwatawata is an initiative that aims to teach people about who they are to help gain a sense of connection and value. Hauora Tairāwhiti says it's an opportunity to try a new way of helping our vulnerable people. Irena Smith has the story.
Published August 31st 2017
Te Tai Rāwhiti health organisations have come together in a response to dealing with the many people suffering from distress and ultimately causing some to take their own lives. A ground breaking initiative called Te Kūwatawata is a way of categorising distress using mātauranga Māori.
Published July 12 14 2017
