Scaling Up Mahi
OF engagING with and upholdING Te Tiriti
in all systems change work
In 2024, the SASS group embarked on some intentional
Te Tiriti Training with a few of the SASS group members;
Bea & Matariki kindly & generously leading us through
this important learning journey.
Te Tiriti Hui #01 Reflections:
CoX Bay
(Jade) In Jan 2024, we started our Te Tiriti training, a number of the SASS group members had embarked on Te Tiriti training before in a personal and/ or professional capacity, but not as a collective.
In the beautiful surrounds of Cox’s Bay reserve we were lucky enough to be facilitated by Bianca (Bea) & Matariki for this series. Bea lead this session and brought her taonga, patu pounamu so we could all pass it around gently, touch, hold & feel the wairua / energy.
She also spoke about the significance of the kawakawa plant, and its healing properties. And took us through a creative visualisation of first contact here between tangata whenua & tangata tiriti in Aotearoa NZ. It was rather confronting, deeply emotional, yet kindly held session…
Ngā mihi nui Bea.
TE Tiriti Hui #02 Reflections:
Muriwai
TE Tiriti Hui #03 Reflections:
(ONLINE)
TE Tiriti Hui #04 Reflections
Waitangi Treaty Grounds
TReaty PrincIples Bills
(Oral Submission)
Parliament
Jane Zintl, Ara Taiohi -
COMING SOON...
Anjum Rahman, Inclusive Aotearoa Collective -
Check out Anjum's oral submission for the Treaty Principles Bill from yesterday, offering a tauiwi ethnic minority perspective on why the bill should be scrapped
Jah Wheki, Seed Waikato - Dujon Cullingford & Tania Pointon
We were all nervous in the beginning seeing that Tame Iti was speaking before us.
We wanted to do something super creative, light hearted and fun for our submission - we did a mixture of things opening the space with koorero around Tangata Tiriti and what it would look like if we invested in Te Tiriti education when people come to Aotearoa.
We did a special enactment; Tania incorporated a poem inspired by E-Tangata while Jah & Duj did a drama performance. We ended our submission with a fun rap!
We felt elated afterwards hearing that the select committee enjoyed it and felt it was a breath of fresh air.
“The Treaty to me has never been about Treaty rights; it’s always been about the rightness that comes from people accepting their obligations to each other. And that was a profound, and I think, visionary base upon which to build a country…”
— Tā Moana Jackson