EMBER Experience (2025)

12/10/2025

Looking for support on your recovery journey? 🌟

Have you experienced harm from alcohol or drugs? Early in recovery and keen to connect with others on a similar path? 🤝✨

Mahi Marumaru’s AOD Peer Support Group is a safe space to listen, share, or ask questions—whatever feels right for you. 🗣️💬
📅 When: Every Wednesday at 12pm
📍 Where: Friendship House - Te Moana Room, Level 1, 20 Putney Way, Manukau City Centre
📞 Questions? Call 09 523 2790 or email ted.wilkie@ember.org.nz 📧

💡 Recovery is YOUR journey—a process of change to improve health, live self-directed, and reach your full potential. 🌈

Whether it’s cutting down or stopping altogether, you define your recovery. Come join us and take the next step! 💛

12/10/2025

🔥 Find Your Dream Job with Ember! 🔥

✨ Ember is here to help YOU find the perfect job and stick with it! Plus, their support doesn’t stop once you’re hired—they’ll continue to back you for a few months after you start. 💼💪

🚀 Their team is ready to guide you every step of the way—tailored to your unique journey.

📞 Get in touch today!
📲 09 523 2790
📧 employment@ember.org.nz

What makes Ember different?
🌏 A diverse team of consultants across Tāmaki Makaurau
🎯 Support that’s all about YOU—your passions, your dreams
📝 Personalised employment plans that play to your strengths

With Ember, you’re not alone in your job hunt. They’ll walk with you every step of the way, helping you reach your career goals. 🌟

✅ Ready to land your dream job? Contact Ember now!

10/10/2025

Sean Barnes on why male friendships need the same intentional maintenance as physical fitness.

The small things - a monthly pub quiz, a Wednesday morning catch-up, a quick text to check in - these are what keep connections strong.

It's not about grand gestures. It's about showing up consistently.

Listen to Sean on Take it From Us - new episode out now

10/10/2025

💚🌏 World Mental Health Day 2025 🌏💚
“Mental health is a universal human right.”

At Ember, we believe in an Aotearoa where everyone is supported to be who and what they want to be.

Mental health is about more than the absence of distress — it’s about belonging, purpose, and the freedom to live as your full self. 🌿

Today, we join people across Aotearoa and the world in standing for hope, understanding, and human rights in mental health.

Reach out. Listen. Share your story.
Every small act of connection helps create a country where no one is left behind, and everyone has the chance to thrive. 💫

🧡 Together, let’s keep building an Aotearoa where wellbeing is possible for all.

09/10/2025

🌟 Peer Support Hub now open 7 days a week! 🌟

The DRIVE Peer Support Hub is now open Monday to Sunday, from 10am to 8pm — that’s 10 hours a day of peer-led support, compassion, and calm. 💚

Feeling overwhelmed or distressed? You don’t have to face it alone. Just walk in — no appointment needed.
📍 51 Huia Road, Ōtāhuhu

🚪 You’ll be welcomed by someone who truly gets it — with aroha, respect and no judgment.

09/10/2025

🔥 Find Your Dream Job with Ember! 🔥

✨ Ember is here to help YOU find the perfect job and stick with it! Plus, their support doesn’t stop once you’re hired—they’ll continue to back you for a few months after you start. 💼💪

🚀 Their team is ready to guide you every step of the way—tailored to your unique journey.

📞 Get in touch today!
📲 09 523 2790
📧 employment@ember.org.nz

What makes Ember different?
🌏 A diverse team of consultants across Tāmaki Makaurau
🎯 Support that’s all about YOU—your passions, your dreams
📝 Personalised employment plans that play to your strengths

With Ember, you’re not alone in your job hunt. They’ll walk with you every step of the way, helping you reach your career goals. 🌟

✅ Ready to land your dream job? Contact Ember now!

09/10/2025

🌟 Join Disability Connect's Free Zoom Support Group! 🌟

Find connection and support with Disability Connect’s Monday Night Zoom Support Group for disabled people, parents, and whānau. 💬💖

Hosted by the friendly and knowledgeable Robyn, this group offers a safe space to share experiences, ask questions, and explore new possibilities for the year ahead. 🌟

🗓️ Every Monday (except public holidays)
⏰ 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

🖥️ Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/J/87036895858
🔑 Meeting ID: 870 3689 5858
🔒 Passcode: 501844

📧 Questions? Email: admin@disabilityconnect.org.nz

🌐 Learn more: https://disabilityconnect.org.nz/parents-zoom-support-group/

📅 Facebook event: https://bit.ly/40oHxCM

Don’t miss this chance to connect, share, and start the year strong! 💪

08/10/2025

🎉 Ready to have fun, get creative, and meet amazing people? 🎉

Whiti Ora’s FREE groups are running all over Tāmaki Makaurau for anyone 16+ dealing with emotional stress or challenges with alcohol or drugs.

🖌️ What’s on?

🌈 Connect with our social groups
🏀 Make a WRAP plan
🎨 Create awesome art
🍳 Cook up a storm
🎉 And so much more!

🚐 Need a ride? We’ve got transport from pick-up spots—or you can meet us at the venue!

📈 Why join?

🌟 Build wellness and self-development skills
💼 Gain pre-employment experience
😄 Have a great time!

📞 Contact them now at 09 523 2790 or ✉️ pf.admin@ember.org.nz

👉 Check schedules for North/West, South, Central/East, and online groups here: https://ember.org.nz/events/personal-focus-timetables/

Don’t miss out—Whiti Ora is your place to connect, grow, and have fun! 💙

07/10/2025

Here's what 3,000 men around the world are doing at 6am every Wednesday.

At WNOW (When No One's Watching) chapters around the world, men gather for bodyweight exercise, 60 pushups to honour the 60 men who take their lives every hour, a sharing circle where they talk about whatever's on their minds, then coffee.

It's simple. It's early. And blokes are showing up because it fills a gap they didn't realise was there. Sean Barnes explains why this format works and how "social fitness" is just as important as physical fitness.

Full episode out now on Take it From Us with Kent Johns.

07/10/2025

💡 Is your alcohol or drug use getting in the way of you living your best life? Mahi Marumaru Can Help! 💡

🌟 They are a lifeline for those whose lives are disrupted by alcohol or drugs. Their team of Peer Support Workers have been through their own recovery journeys and are here to support YOU.

📅 Face-to-Face Support: On average they can meet with you within three working days, at a location that works for you.

🤝 Choose Your Support: Pick a Peer Support Worker whose experience resonates with you. They’ll walk alongside you as you set and achieve YOUR goals—whether that’s cutting down or quitting entirely.

💪 You’re in Control: Your recovery. Your way. Mahi Marumaru is here to support you every step of the journey.

📞 Take the First Step:
Contact David at david.cutten@ember.org.nz
Call 09 523 2790 or 021 393 347

🌏 Funded by Te Whatu Ora for people living in the Counties Manukau health region.

07/10/2025

It’s Day Three of Mental Health Awareness Week – and today’s theme is Be Active / Me kori tonu 🧡

At Ember, we know being active isn’t about doing a big workout – it’s about simple movement that feels good.

Try this from home: put on your favourite song and gently sway, stretch, or dance until the track ends 🎶

Just one song can lift your energy and clear your mind.

Being active with whānau or friends can help you stay motivated, strengthen connections, and make it more fun 🤝

It’s not about performance – it’s about movement that helps you feel alive.

Show how you’re topping up together by sharing your moves using the hashtag 💪

The Mental Health Foundation is giving away a $200 Prezzy card for people who join in. Check out the link in their bio 🔗

07/10/2025

🌅 Join The Speed Freaks and Run, Walk, or Stroll for World Mental Health Day! 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶‍♀️

This Friday 10th October be part of the Big Morning Run and support the Mental Health Foundation. 🌿

📍 Barry Curtis Park, Flat Bush
🕥 10:30 am – before Kai & Connect at 11:30 am

Run, walk, or stroll — everyone’s welcome! Afterwards, grab a coffee with us or ‘buy the MHF a coffee’ online to keep the support flowing. ☕💚

Let’s move together, connect, and show up for mental health awareness in our community.

👉 Find the group under Speed Freaks Tāmaki Makaurau on the Big Morning Run site:
https://bit.ly/42PLyB9

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