22/11/2024
Tokowhā Tāne Wānanga 2024
Acknowledging for guiding through this wānanga, teaching us the tools & knowledge. Knowledge that can only be gifted, that can never be brought. Something that requires depths of mana to hold, honour & implicate.
This space that is held is not taken lightly, this space is sacred, what is shared in this space will remain only between those that attended & honoured in that present moment.
The trauma that bleeds through generation to generation is trauma that was never meant to lay in our hands, but instead of passing that intergenerational trauma on, we are creating spaces to heal, to feel and to connect so we can start passing on intergenerational healing, emotional awareness and emotional regulation. For our tamariki, our mokopuna and generations to come.
The most important acknowledgment is to all the tāne that showed up to this wānanga, for their tamariki, for their whānau and for themselves.
For these tāne to take accountability and responsibility for their own healing is something that takes courage and strength, to talk about trauma, pain and mamae, to let down the walls that you spent your entire lives building to protect yourself, and to open yourself up and become vulnerable is a power you’ve always had. A reminder to the tāne that attended and gifted our wānanga with their stories, you all have the power to write your own journeys, the power has always been within you, you are inherently the change-makers of you’re own lives, you are your own superheroes,we are just here to remind you of it.
Next wānanga coming early 2025.
📸 Luke Siaki
Facilitators Tom Paulo - Alpha Welness & -
