March Newsletter
Te Uru Tāngata Immersive
Marae Based Experience
Te Uru Tāngata is a fully immersive marae-based learning experience bringing your team onto a working marae for applied cultural capability. Through pōwhiri, karakia, shared kai, and facilitated workshops such as Pathways to Māori Relational Engagement, Māori Bread Experience, Indigenous Wellbeing, and The Treaty & The Integrity of Water, participants move from theory into lived understanding.
Choose your pathway
Select the experience that matches your team, sector, and outcomes.
Pathways to Māori Relational Engagement
Three 90-minute sessions for senior leaders, ELT, and board members.
Target Audience
Board, ELT, Senior Leaders
Duration: 6.5 hours
Seats: 15
Indigenous Wellbeing Through Styling & Fashion
Explore wellbeing through self-expression and cultural identity.
Target Audience
Individuals, HR Professionals
Duration: 4.5 hours
Seats: 15
Māori Bread Experience
Hands-on cultural workshop to create and cook traditional bread.
Target Audience
Individuals, Social Service Teams
Duration: 4.5 hours
Seats: 15
The Treaty & The Integrity of Water
Interactive experience exploring Te Tiriti and water stewardship.
Target Audience
Engineers, Local Council
Duration: 6.5 hours
Seats: 25
Why this matters
Relational capability is built through experience
Māori engagement is not learned from slides. It is lived. Through pōwhiri, kōrero, and shared kai, participants understand Mana Motuhake, whakapapa, and relational responsibility in real time.
Applied understanding beyond compliance
Whether exploring Te Tiriti and water governance, Indigenous wellbeing, or workplace readiness, each workshop connects cultural principles directly to leadership, engineering, HR, and community practice.
Shared kai creates shared insight
From baking traditional Māori bread to collective reflection, hands-on learning embeds values like manaakitanga, whanaungatanga, and integrity in ways that endure long after the day concludes.
What your team will gain
- Confidence participating in pōwhiri, karakia, and marae protocol with understanding
- Practical insight into Māori Relational Engagement and Mana Motuhake in workplace contexts
- Applied understanding of Te Tiriti and its connection to water, land, and community decision-making
- Embodied learning through kai preparation and shared storytelling
- Clarity on how Indigenous wellbeing principles connect wairua, whānau, hinengaro, and tinana
- Actionable next steps tailored to your organisational role and responsibilities
Who should attend
Experience format
Workshop pathways delivered on marae
Delivered in person on a working marae, Te Uru Tāngata integrates structured 90-minute workshop sessions into a full-day experience. Options include:
- Pathways to Māori Relational Engagement (3 x 90-minute sessions)
- Indigenous Wellbeing Through a Styling & Fashion Lens
- Māori Bread Experience
- The Treaty & The Integrity of Water
Each pathway is contextualised for your sector, with group sizes typically between 15–25 participants.
Typical marae experience flow
- Pōwhiri and cultural welcome onto the marae
- Karakia and grounding in kaupapa
- Structured workshop sessions aligned to your chosen pathway
- Hands-on experiential learning such as kai preparation or bread-making
- Facilitated kōrero connecting insight to professional practice
- Shared kai and whakawhanaungatanga
- Closing reflections and hongi
Workshops in Action
A lens for relational leaders
Te Uru Tāngata centres the human spirit within professional life. On the marae, learning becomes embodied. Senior leaders explore relational engagement and Mana Motuhake. Engineers reflect on Te Tiriti and the integrity of water. HR teams examine Indigenous wellbeing through wairua, whānau, hinengaro, and tinana. Participants bake bread, share kai, stand in pōwhiri, and listen deeply. These are not symbolic gestures. They are applied cultural capability experiences designed to build confident, relational professionals who can operate respectfully and effectively within Aotearoa. When people step onto the marae and participate fully, understanding shifts from intellectual awareness to lived responsibility. That shift strengthens teams, governance, and community relationships.
Bring your team onto the marae
Choose your pathway. Experience applied cultural capability in action.