Cherish Christchurch

12/03/2026

Have you heard of the Enneagram?

It is a personality system that describes nine patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.

Discovering your type can reveal your motivations, habits and blind spots, helping you understand yourself more deeply and relate to others with greater compassion.

Curious to learn more?

Join Elinor on Friday 20 March for an Introduction to the Enneagram workshop and explore the foundations of this powerful self-awareness tool.

Find details and tickets here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1AkZZGi7zf/

Want to go deeper?
Elinor is also offering a Diving Deeper workshop the following day on Saturday 21 March.

07/03/2026

March 8 is International Women’s Day.

This year marks the 115th anniversary of a day that honours the achievements, strength, and courage of wāhine everywhere.

Who are the women in your life that deserve some appreciation and love today?

05/03/2026

On Tuesday evening there was a total lunar eclipse. The moon was looking beautiful. 🌕

We honoured this auspicious event at our Pastoral Group meeting on Wednesday while we contemplated the themes written on these cards.

Are any ringing true in your life right now?
- Growing in Wisdom
- Daring to Dream
- Letting Go
- Finding Connection
- Giving
- Developing Insight
- Embracing Change

27/02/2026

We have some beautiful Cherish offerings in March. See our latest newsletter here. We look forward to welcoming you. 😊

Monday: Moving Meditation with Sheila​Tuesday: Heart Centred Meditation with Lisa​Wednesday: Self-Organising Meditation with Caleb​Thursday: Mini Sound Bath with Aileen and Danielle​Friday: Grounding Meditation with Dan

24/02/2026

A special all-ages yoga class is coming to Christchurch 💜

Yoga for All: Calming Kids and Adults Too!
Sun 1 March, 2:30pm – 4pm
At Avebury House

This gentle, inclusive class is suitable for the whole family and also great for adults or seniors on their own. No yoga experience needed.

Dee Marie, a highly experienced yoga therapist, is excited to bring her expertise to Christchurch and partner with Cherish Christchurch, to offer an affordable, fun, family-friendly movement and mindfulness class for people of all ages and abilities. Dee is the founder of the non-profit Calming Kids: Creating a Non-Violent World (calmingkids.org) and brings over 40 years of experience supporting children and adults to feel calm, connected, and at ease.

More info and bookings:
https://events.humanitix.com/calming-kids-and-adults-too

20/02/2026

We have new availability in our Wellspring Room. We are looking for practitioners who would like to rent our Wellspring room at Cherish to offer their gifts to the community.

The wellspring room is a space for seeing clients privately. It consists of two smaller rooms, one with comfy seats for dialogue, and one with a massage table for various forms of therapeutic support.

We have Thursday mornings, Saturday all day, and Sunday mornings available.

If you are interested, please fill out this form (link in bio as well): https://forms.gle/kTMeRoK9D9fKXgKT6

We are a community first at Cherish, so the right person for us would be someone who aligns with our values, and is looking to be part of a wider community that share an aspiration to support people to live well.

10/02/2026

Many of us were never taught how to truly listen, especially in moments of conflict.

Nonviolent Communication (NVC), developed by Marshall Rosenberg, offers a simple but uncommon practice: listening for what really matters. Beneath reactions and opinions are needs, values, and longings. When we learn to hear these in ourselves and others, conflict can shift from something to avoid into something that can deepen understanding and connection.

This kind of listening does not mean agreeing or fixing. It means learning to stay present, curious, and honest at the same time. It is a skill that can transform relationships, collaboration, and even how we relate to ourselves.

If you are curious to experience this in practice:

Listening with Love: Meet Conflict Creatively
with Valerie Wycoff and Jim Lovell-Smith

📅 Thurs Feb 12 | 7:00–8:30 PM
or
📅 Mon Feb 16 | 10:00–11:30 AM

Cost: $15–40 (your choice)

They will explore common listening traps, practice stepping into another’s perspective, and discover how caring for everyone’s needs can open new possibilities in conflict.

For more information and to register: https://events.humanitix.com/listening-with-love-meet-conflict-creatively

08/02/2026

Midday meditations at Cherish are back for 2026! 🧘🧘‍♀️

Take a pause in your day and join us Monday to Friday, 1:00 – 1:30pm, for a guided moment of calm in the heart of the city.

Each day offers a different flavour of meditation, so you can find what feels right for you. All are welcome 💜

05/02/2026

Today we pause our offerings to honour Waitangi Day and Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

May this be a time for reflection, connection, and care for yourself and your whānau.

Ngā mihi nui.

05/02/2026

For each of you and for me:
“You are that integral, that crucial, that bright.”

In Case You Don't Know Already

One day you will wake
and discover you are a sun,
radiant, fueled by your own core,
capable of luminosity so great
you blaze through lightyears of darkness.
You will know your own power
and it will never occur to you
not to trust it, not to share it.
You will not be able to forget
your own magnitude.
Nor will such glory be a burden.
You will simply shine
because that is who you are.
No need to apologize.
No reason to be jealous
of any other sun,
of any other star.
On that day,
you will see how it is
you have always been a sun,
even in the darkest days.
Then, you were also the clouds
and the great shadow
that made you stop
believing in your light.
You are, in fact,
what makes the day itself—
you are that integral,
that crucial,
that bright.

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

31/01/2026

Thought for the day:
“Together we make unstopable waves - how they roar”

Currents

I walk to the river and see how the banks
have changed since even two days ago.
Now water flows through the bright red willows
instead of staying in the main channel.
I remember how it used to run right here
where I am standing until a mighty flash
flood altered its course and there was not
a damn thing anyone could have done to stop it.

There is, even now, a rising flood of love.
It will move anything that tries to impede it.
When I can’t hear the flood of love,
that’s when I know it is up to me to share love
so someone else hears the currents I’m listening for.
Together we make unstoppable waves—how they roar.

—Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

28/01/2026

We hope everyone has had a wonderful summer break. We open our doors next Monday (2nd Feb) for our regular daily 1pm meditations. We hope to see you all soon for cups of tea and connection.
Here is our latest newsletter with all the upcoming events and musings etc:

Cherish will be opening back up again on Monday 2nd February, and we hope to see you all joining us at a meditation, or an event.