Mauri Ora Mai Tawhito Wānanga

 

Ngāti Manawa Marae, Panguru, Hokianga

Promoting the importance of Mauri through dynamic sharing and learning together in our communities

 

Te Rarawa Anga Mua in partnership with  Te Aho Tū Roa (Toimata Foundation) are honoured to be supporting Ngāti Manawa Marae in Panguru, Hokianga host the 9th 'Mauri Ora Mai Tawhito Wānanga'  on the 25th-27th April, 2025.

 

Following on from previous successful wananga, with the first at #1: Te Ahu, Kaitaia 2015, the first Marae-based wānanga held in #2: Whangape 2016, #3: Pawarenga 2017, #4: Panguru 2018, #5: Waiparera 2020, #6: Roma Marae, #7 Rangikohu Marae, #8 Ngāi Tūpoto Marae 2023. This 9th wānanga also offers unlimited possibilities with a high calibre of speakers and an exciting programme on offer.  It includes a haerenga to generate dynamic conversations about our history, our places, our taonga and their significance to various sites of cultural significance to Ngāti Manawa Marae & Te Rarawa Kaiwhare. The intention is to reconnect whanau, hapu and iwi - while learning the importance of mauri; of the whenua, moana, ngāhere, tangata, whānau and mauri ora.

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The 'Mauri ora mai Tawhito' concept began through the realisation that Kaumatua and Kuia knowledge is an absolute taonga (treasure).

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˜A challenge was presented in the form of a question – “If the origins of whakapapa identified possible solutions to maintaining Maori wellbeing of the past, can the same matauranga hold the answers to restore Maori wellbeing today”?

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"Whakapapa is the sacred strand that interweaves the life force of all creation"

With this realisation came the understanding that many of the solutions required for our current social and economic climate can be found within the experiences and inter-generational Māori mātauranga (knowledge) of our elders transferred or (passed down) over time.
 

We are privileged throughout the wānanga to have some of our Kuia / Kaumatua on our Mauri haerenga to share their stories and history with us - to help reconnect us with the importance of mauri in the past, present and future. 

 

 "Ehara ēnei taonga mōku ake, engari mo te rau tangata"  

(Makiha, T, 2014) 

(What I know is not for me to keep, but to share with others)

 

One of the main outcomes of this wānanga is that we hope it will re-ignite a spark, or energy to take back to our marae, getting people to understand mauri – understand the greatness of what is within them.