Mauri Tui Tuia - Creative Therapies NZ

18/09/2025

✨WE HAVE EXCITING NEWS!✨

Mauri Tui Tuia - The Podcast is dropping this coming Monday 22nd Sept 2025!

Tune in every Monday at 5pm for the next 5-6 weeks for new episodes with dance therapists, creative arts therapist, music therapists, artists and trailblazers. The conversations are rich, honest and uplifting.

Check out our trailer and save the channel for your new Monday evening inspiration.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1FbUd13Mx4gl28ku1MMgr5?si=wFG0AmHBRpiF0_jTWaap5A

15/09/2025

https://youtu.be/wP7oeu4Up5k?si=9cXdQ1c-6jr0p0FA

Kia ora e te whānau, ko tēnei te wiki o te reo Māori!
Happy Māori Language Week 2025! 🥳🥰😁✨

At Mauri Tui Tuia we believe all languages hold the elements of song, so how better to celebrate Te Wiki O Te Reo than through a song?

E Minaka by Pania Papa is a fun folk song that speaks about speaking Te Reo Māori with pride.
Sing along and try out the kanikani too, and how gorgeous is that toi peita in the background?

Kia kaha tātou
ki te (HI!) kōrero Māori!

E minaka ana taku waha
ki te kai a te rangatira,
Taku reo rangatira,
taku kuru pounamu tuku iho

Mīharo kē ana
ki tōna pakari kia ora
Tē memeha, te wairua
ki te kōrero Māori

Kia kaha tātou
ki te (HI!) kōrero Māori!
Hi aue Hi!!

Let us be staunch
in speaking Maori!

I desire that
my talk be like that of a leader,
my noble language
my precious inheritance.

Astound me
with your maturity by
the evanescence, the spirit you show
when speaking Maori.

Let us be staunch
in speaking Maori!
(lyrics and translation taken from New Zealand Folk Song website)

E Minaka AnaKia kaha te reo rangatira!I've mirrored the actions so you can learn while watching alongBe staunch! Speak Te Reo!

12/09/2025

A big warm welcome to Zach, our newest addition to the team. We are privileged to gain another Music Therapist (whoop whoop!) and another passionate kaimahi. We are full of gratitude and excitement about working with you Zach.
Give us a like and follow if Mauri Tui Tuia sounds like a team you'd like to work with 🥰

11/09/2025

"I did the heart hug the other day and it helped the WHOLE family" 🥰

Kia ora whānau! It's Friday, the end of Child Safeguarding Awareness Week. Thanks for journeying with us. Self-care is a huge part of making our work sustainable. Try out a tried and true neurobiological safety hack 'The Heart Hug'. The quote about is from a whānau member in one of our programmes who used this tool after learning it with one of our facilitators.

Share this with a friend of whānau member today and share other self-care hacks in the comments below!

10/09/2025

Parents and caregivers are a child's first teachers. Kia kaha whānau. More than ever our tamariki and rangitahi need you to have honest kōrero and nuture around cyber safety. Here we have linked some free resources for you.

Screen time and Brain Development:
https://www.childsafeguardingweek.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/sites/413/2025/09/Screen-Time-and-Brain-Development-%E2%80%93-What-Parents-Should-Know.pdf

Free - elearning course - parenting in a digital world
https://www.safeguardingchildren.org.nz/portfolio-item/on-demand-catalog/parenting-in-the-digital-world/?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=edm&utm_campaign=csw2025&utm_term=early-drop&utm_content=e-course

Headspace Invaders: Critical thinking skills for navigating online content for 12-16 year olds
https://netsafe.org.nz/headspace-invaders

And an awesome podcast: Together with Safeguarding Children
Protecting children in New Zealand and overseas
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-n3we6-14dcfe1

10/09/2025

We have an incredibly talented and experienced team at Mauri Tui Tuia. One of our beautiful therapists Marion Gordon-flower will be holding some professional development in a few weeks time. Click the link below for registration and give this post a share and a like for others who may benefit 💞💚🌱

https://anzacata.org/event-6306948

08/09/2025

We are observing Child Safeguarding Week this week at Mauri Tui Tuia. Thank you for resourcing kaimahi and whānau like us to do the best job we can to nurture and protect Aotearoa's greatest treasures ✨
This year the focus is on online safety - a space of great creativity but also a place of great risk.

Check out the training on offer this week for your own resourcing and follow us for more posts and links to resources throughout the week.

https://www.safeguardingchildren.org.nz/seminar-register-form/?InfoodleFormName=2865e2a9-2ee1-4764-881a-264b5683ad80

https://www.childsafeguardingweek.org.nz/child-safeguarding-week-event-schedule-2025/

08/09/2025

Welcome Gab!
We are celebrating having Gab on the team and her first day of work with us at Mauri Tui Tuia in Early Childhood Centres in Tamaki Makaurau today.
Gab is a graduate of Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, a multi-talented Creative Art Therapist. Give Gab a like and a share to celebrate with us 🥳.

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24/08/2025

Jan is one of the wonderful co-directors of Mauri Tui Tuia. She is also a Dance Movement Therapist, Pediatric Physiotherapist and Creative Art Therapist. She brings so much heart, wisdom and Aroha to the team and all who get to work with her. And of course, she is also a deeply creative person, engaging with creative practices and connecting with nature and the whenua (land) to sustain herself for life.

Do you resonate with any of her self-care practices?

Share some of your own creative self-care practices below.

Give us a like 👍
a follow
and share this with a friend to inspire each other in your creative self care.

Stay warm and well everyone!

18/08/2025

Welcome Hannah to the Mauri Tui Tuia team! Hannah will be picking up some mahi in the Early Childhood scene over the next few moths. We are so grateful for the warmth and Aroha Hannah brings to her mahi. Ngā mihi Hannah for choosing to partner with Mauri Tui Tuia 💞

09/08/2025

Time to celebrate another review! How cool is it that the strategies tamariki are learning in art therapy are supporting them in their classrooms and beyond?
Kaiako and whānau! Tell us about some of the ways you use creativity to support wellbeing in your classrooms. Comment below ⬇️