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Aronui is a kaupapa Maaori mental health and addiction service dedicated to supporting taangata whaiora - people seeking wellness. We provide a range of mental health, addiction, and social wellbeing services with a cultural focus. Our team of trusted kaimahi delivers care close to home, understanding the unique social, economic, cultural, and environmental challenges faced by whaanau.
Who Is Eligible?
This service is available to all whaanau seeking mental health and addictions support from a Te ao Maaori lens. We welcome anyone looking to improve their wellbeing within a culturally informed framework.
How to Enquire
For more information or to access our services, please contact us via the link below. We’re here to help you on your journey to wellness.Our Aronui Health Coaches walk alongside whaanau who are facing wellbeing, wairua, health and addictions challenges with a holistic-focussed approach. Rooted in wairuatanga and guided by maatauranga Maaori, they support whaanau to strengthen their tinana, hinengaro, wairua, and whaanau. Whether it’s navigating everyday challenges, setting goals, or connecting with services, our Health Coaches are here to awhi, uplift, and empower.
Our Aronui Health Improvement Practitioners provide focused, solution-based support to help whaanau manage life's challenges and strengthen their hinengaro and wairua. Drawing on both clinical expertise and maatauranga Maaori, they offer timely guidance around stress, anxiety, mamae, and other everyday pressures. HIPs work closely with whaanau in the moment – helping to restore balance and build resilience.
Kai & Koorero is our weekly Friday kaupapa for kuia and kaumaatua (over 60's group) – a space to move, experience new things, share time and space, and connect. Through gentle movement activity, (chair based) shared kai, and meaningful koorero, our kaumaatua come together to nurture their hinengaro, strengthen whanaungatanga, and build new friendships. It’s about staying active, staying connected, and celebrating the wisdom and presence of our pakeke in a space that feels like home.
This movement and meditation workshop is a collaboration of traditional Maaori healing modalities weaved together to create a space that awakens an awareness to your holistic being.
Sessions will consist of Mahi Raakau (staff) , Mahi Tinana (body movement) , Mahi Haa (breath) and a short clearing/re-generising meditation facilitated by romiromi practitioner Piripi Morunga.
Ngaakau Oho is open to all who would like to attend and will run for approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour live on Zoom at 6am Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. If you can't make the live Zoom, you can watch the recordings on YouTube.
You will need a quiet space, a mat, cushion or seat, water and two Rakau: One Rakau with length from the ground to your chin and a short Rakau with length from the tip of your finger to your shoulder.
This workshop will help to facilitate more positive experiences that range from healthier ways to approach daily tasks, to shifting trauma that can block energy in the body thus affecting Hinengaro, Tinana and Wairua.
Participating will foster wellbeing that is attentive to individual and collective experiences of Wairua, Hinengaro, Tinana and Whaanau.
How to Enquire
Send any enquiries to wellness@thc.org.nz.
Join our fortnightly community romiromi clinic sessions to help release emotional, psychological and spiritual energies held within the tinana.
Who Is Eligible?
A walk-in, first in first served, koha service; this clinic is for anyone who seeks connectedness in healing and revitalisation.
How to Enquire
Please complete the form below to register your interest for our ongoing programmes.
EAP Services (Employee Assistance Programme) provides wraparound mental health support for the emotional, social, and practical needs of your team. Turuki are proud providers of rongoaa Maaori services, offering traditional Maaori healing modalities to you and your whaanau. This includes but is not limited to pani, romiromi, wairua practitioners, and whakawhitikoorero.
Who Is Eligible?
EAP Services is designed to support individuals in workplaces throughout Aotearoa.
How to Enquire
Please complete the form below to register your interest for our ongoing programmes.
We have a range of wairua practitioners who have extensive experience in the mental health sector. We work with whaanau from diverse backgrounds, addressing intergenerational trauma, grief, and other challenges through the lens of wairua. We offer face to face and virtual sessions for flexible and accessible support, helping whaanau navigate their challenges through the powerful principles of wairua.
Who Is Eligible?
This service is designed for whaanau facing intergenerational trauma or grief, individuals seeking wairua support, and anyone interested in a spiritual approach to mental health.
How to Enquire
Please complete the form below to register your interest for our ongoing programmes.
Raranga Hauora uses the art of weaving Korowai/Kaakahu (cloaks) to provide a unique cultural approach to help whaanau to quit many addictions, from smoking, vaping, marijuana, gambling, alcohol and many others.
This 10-week free programme interweaves maatauranga (traditional Maaori knowledge) and cessation practices to reduce and eventually quit many addictions. The commitment required is to attend a minimum of one 2 hour session per week, either on Mondays in Manukau or Wednesdays in Maangere.
You then take your small baby sized korowai/kaakahu home for the week. Working on this taonga at home, helps distract your cravings and reduce your addiction use. You get to keep your finished korowai/kaakahu at the end of the programme. You will learn all you need to then make a much larger adult sized korowai/kaakahu. Everything you need from the boards, feathers and whenu, are provided.
Who Is Eligible?
This free 10 week programme is open to all genders and ages above 18 years of age, you do not need to be fluent in te reo Maaori, but have an interest in traditional Maaori crafts and knowledge. Click the link to submit your interest and Whaea Hera will contact you to discuss the programme further.
How to Enquire
To participate in Raranga Hauora, please complete the form below.
Our Taumata Team walk alongside whanaau involved in the justice system, providing awhi through times of challenge and transition. Our team support with court appearances, navigating the justice system including probation, e-bail and other such systems. Their mahi is about restoring mana, building trust, and helping whanau find pathways forward – guided by the principles of aroha, tika, and pono.
How to Enquire
Please complete the form below.
Tania, a clinically trained counsellor with nearly two decades of experience, integrates Maaori ideologies and traditional healing practices as core components of her therapeutic framework. This approach provides a comprehensive and holistic form of healing, maintaining the essential balance and interconnectedness of the hinengaro (mind), mauri (physical), and wairua (spirit).
As a Maaori practitioner, Tania incorporates rongoaa raakau (herbal medicine), romiromi (bodywork), and other rituals into her mahi, creating a uniquely effective and meaningful practice.
Who Is Eligible?
Specialising in supporting survivors of child sexual abuse, Tania also works with individuals facing a wide range of challenges. A skilled listener, she authentically connects with the stories people share, serving as a kaitiaki (guardian) of those stories—a role she fulfils with deep respect and commitment.
How to Enquire
To access this service, please complete the form below.
Te Whare Hau recognises that, from an indigenous worldview, wellbeing is impacted by a fundamental disconnection from one's essence. This misalignment can stem from factors such as intergenerational trauma—along with the social, psychological, physiological, and cultural challenges that accompany it. Te Whare Hau expresses our holistic pathways of wellbeing utilising mātauranga Maaori, kōrero, whakapapa, waananga and rongoā.
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Whaanau inclusive rehabilitation plan
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Medical assessment with our drug and alcohol nurse, medical doctor and/or lead practitioner
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1:1 sessions with our Lead AOD Practitioner
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1:1 sessions with a ACC registered Counsellor
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1:1 sessions with a Wairua Practitioner
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Group work & sessions
Who Is Eligible?
This service is ideal for individuals struggling with meth, alcohol or other drug-related issues, those seeking to reduce or abstain from substance use, and anyone looking for a holistic, evidence-based approach to substance use recovery.
How to Enquire
To access Te Whare Hau, participants or concerned caregivers can enquire below to submit a private and confidential enquiry and one of our team will be in contact.
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The Alcohol and Other Drugs service is designed for individuals and whaanau seeking to address and move away from unhelpful substance use and related life issues or problems. This service offers a combination of wairua-driven mahi and evidence-based harm reduction or abstinence models. The assessment aims to provide helpful tools for your kete maatauranga to support long-term recovery and wellbeing. Through personalised one-on-one sessions and continuous support, individuals receive the tools and guidance needed for a healthier, substance-free life.
Who Is Eligible?
This service is ideal for individuals struggling with alcohol or other drug-related issues, those seeking to reduce or abstain from substance use, and anyone looking for a holistic, evidence-based approach to substance use recovery.
How to Enquire
To access the Te Whare Wai Maarie (Addictions) service, participants can book one-on-one sessions by appointment through the administration team aronui@thc.org.nz.
Explore a pathway of quintessential power & spirit towards accessing the whatumanawa as tane, through multiple mediums of rakau, mere pounamu patu, karakia takutaku, korero tukuiho, haa uruora, maramataka and warrior skills knowledge systems handed down through the passages of time.
Who Is Eligible?
This waananga is for taane interested in connectedness through the creative access portal to what is known at te whatumanawa (divine essence).
How to Enquire
To participate in our Matarua waananga, please follow the link below.
Cultivate your Uruora wellbeing, knowledge, understanding, maatauranga & atua maareikura through the conscious pursuits of waahine toa warriorship. Rikoriko is a 2-day waananga focussed on the activation of self through the traditional instruments of mere, patu & rakau.
Who Is Eligible?
This waananga is for waahine interested in connectedness through waahinetanga and the ancient streams of knowledge.
How to Enquire
To participate in our Rikoriko Waananga, please follow the link below.
Wairuatanga is a gentle introduction to wellbeing from a te ao Maaori perspective.
Discussing concepts such as whakapapa, ngaa kete maatauranga, te whare waananga and more; whaanau are guided by Papa Wiremu & Koka Lesley in processing their own learnings and understandings through a wairua lens. This is a space for whaanau to dive deeper into their experiences and take away a few tools to work through challenges we may face in our daily lives.
Who Is Eligible?
This 1-day waananga is ideal for individuals interested in building cultural knowledge and understandings around wairua and wairua experiences.
How to Enquire
To participate in our Wairuatanga waananga, please contact our team below.
Aronui
Aronui is a kaupapa Maaori wellness and wellbeing service grounded in wairuatanga. Our service has a strong focus on restoring balance with a te ao maori lens. Our trusted kaimahi walk alongside whaanau, offering culturally grounded support that responds to spiritual, social, and cultural needs.
Who Is Eligible?
This service is available to all whaanau seeking mental health and addictions support from a Te ao Maaori lens. We welcome anyone looking to improve their wellbeing within a culturally informed framework.
How to Enquire
We’re here to help you on your journey to wellness, to register, please click the link below.
OROKOROA - Maaori Meditation
OROKOROA is a Maaori meditation programme that harnesses the sacred source of life through sound (Oro), vibration (Oko), and journey (Roa). This practice transcends timeless energy and creates a collective consciousness connected to the highest source of supernatural beings. This beginner programme provides a structured pathway into Maaori meditation, offering free and accessible resources to help individuals harness the power of stillness and achieve a balanced state of being through the principles of OROKOROA.
Who Is Eligible?
This programme is ideal for beginners interested in Maaori meditation, individuals seeking a holistic approach to mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing, and anyone wanting to explore traditional Maaori practices for mindfulness.
How to Enquire
To access the programme, download the free OROKOROA app via the App store (compatible with Android and Apple users). Each session varies in length and covers essential practices, including Takutaku, Paerangi, Taurite, Tuku, Hakiotanga, and Irohanga.
Raranga Hauora uses the art of weaving Korowai/Kaakahu (cloaks) to provide a unique cultural approach to help whaanau to quit many addictions, from smoking, vaping, marijuana, gambling, alcohol and many others.
This 10-week free programme interweaves maatauranga (traditional Maaori knowledge) and cessation practices to reduce and eventually quit many addictions. The commitment required is to attend a minimum of one 2 hour session per week, either on Mondays in Manukau or Wednesdays in Maangere.
You then take your small baby sized korowai/kaakahu home for the week. Working on this taonga at home, helps distract your cravings and reduce your addiction use. You get to keep your finished korowai/kaakahu at the end of the programme. You will learn all you need to then make a much larger adult sized korowai/kaakahu. Everything you need from the boards, feathers and whenu, are provided.
Who Is Eligible?
This free 10 week programme is open to all genders and ages above 18 years of age, you do not need to be fluent in te reo Maaori, but have an interest in traditional Maaori crafts and knowledge. Click the link to submit your interest and Whaea Hera will contact you to discuss the programme further.
How to Enquire
To participate in Raranga Hauora, please complete the form below.
Rongoaa Maaori - Wairua Practitioners
We have a range of wairua practitioners who have extensive experience in the mental health sector. We work with whaanau from diverse backgrounds, addressing intergenerational trauma, grief, and other challenges through the lens of wairua. We offer face to face and virtual sessions for flexible and accessible support, helping whaanau navigate their challenges through the powerful principles of wairua.
Who Is Eligible?
This service is designed for whaanau facing intergenerational trauma or grief, individuals seeking wairua support, and anyone interested in a spiritual approach to mental health.
How to Enquire
Please complete the form below to register your interest for our ongoing programmes.
Raranga Hauora
EAP Services (Employee Assistance Programme) provides wraparound mental health support for the emotional, social, and practical needs of your team. Turuki are proud providers of rongoaa Maaori services, offering traditional Maaori healing modalities to you and your whaanau. This includes but is not limited to pani, romiromi, wairua practitioners, and whakawhitikoorero.
Who Is Eligible?
EAP Services is designed to support individuals in workplaces throughout Aotearoa.
How to Enquire
Please complete the form below to register your interest for our ongoing programmes.
Rongoaa Maaori - EAP Services
Join our fortnightly community romiromi clinic sessions to help release emotional, psychological and spiritual energies held within the tinana.
Who Is Eligible?
A walk-in, first in first served, koha service; this clinic is for anyone who seeks connectedness in healing and revitalisation.
How to Enquire
Please complete the form below to register your interest for our ongoing programmes.
Rongoaa Maaori - Community Romiromi Clinic
This movement and meditation workshop is a collaboration of traditional Māori healing modalities weaved together to create a space that awakens an awareness to your holistic being.
Sessions will consist of Mahi Raakau (staff) , Mahi Tinana (body movement) , Mahi Haa (breath) and a short clearing/re-generising meditation facilitated by romiromi practitioner Piripi Morunga.
Ngaakau Oho is open to all who would like to attend and will run for approximately 45 minutes to 1 hour live on Zoom at 6am Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. If you can't make the live Zoom, you can watch the recordings on YouTube.
You will need a quiet space, a mat, cushion or seat, water and two Rakau: One Rakau with length from the ground to your chin and a short Rakau with length from the tip of your finger to your shoulder.
This workshop will help to facilitate more positive experiences that range from healthier ways to approach daily tasks, to shifting trauma that can block energy in the body thus affecting Hinengaro, Tinana and Wairua.
Participating will foster wellbeing that is attentive to individual and collective experiences of Wairua, Hinengaro, Tinana and Whaanau.
How to Enquire
Send any enquiries to wellness@thc.org.nz.
Ngaakau Oho Mornings to Active the Holistic Self (Online Sessions)
Our Aronui Health Coaches walk alongside whaanau who are facing wellbeing, wairua, health and addictions challenges with a holistic-focussed approach. Rooted in wairuatanga and guided by maatauranga Maaori, they support whaanau to strengthen their tinana, hinengaro, wairua, and whaanau. Whether it’s navigating everyday challenges, setting goals, or connecting with services, our Health Coaches are here to awhi, uplift, and empower.
Health Coaches
Health Improvement Practitioners
Our Aronui Health Improvement Practitioners provide focused, solution-based support to help whaanau manage life's challenges and strengthen their hinengaro and wairua. Drawing on both clinical expertise and maatauranga Maaori, they offer timely guidance around stress, anxiety, mamae, and other everyday pressures. HIPs work closely with whaanau in the moment – helping to restore balance and build resilience.
Our Taumata Team walk alongside whanaau involved in the justice system, providing awhi through times of challenge and transition. Our team support with court appearances, navigating the justice system including probation, e-bail and other such systems. Their mahi is about restoring mana, building trust, and helping whanau find pathways forward – guided by the principles of aroha, tika, and pono.
Taumata Team
Kai & Koorero
Kai & Koorero is our weekly Friday kaupapa for kuia and kaumaatua (over 60's group) – a space to move, experience new things, share time and space, and connect. Through gentle movement activity, (chair based) shared kai, and meaningful koorero, our kaumaatua come together to nurture their hinengaro, strengthen whanaungatanga, and build new friendships. It’s about staying active, staying connected, and celebrating the wisdom and presence of our pakeke in a space that feels like home.
Tania, a clinically trained counsellor with nearly two decades of experience, integrates Maaori ideologies and traditional healing practices as core components of her therapeutic framework. This approach provides a comprehensive and holistic form of healing, maintaining the essential balance and interconnectedness of the hinengaro (mind), mauri (physical), and wairua (spirit).
As a Maaori practitioner, Tania incorporates rongoaa raakau (herbal medicine), romiromi (bodywork), and other rituals into her mahi, creating a uniquely effective and meaningful practice.
Who Is Eligible?
Specialising in supporting survivors of child sexual abuse, Tania also works with individuals facing a wide range of challenges. A skilled listener, she authentically connects with the stories people share, serving as a kaitiaki (guardian) of those stories—a role she fulfils with deep respect and commitment.
How to Enquire
To access this service, please complete the form below.
Te Whare Ariki - Counselling Services
Te Whare Hau recognises that, from an indigenous worldview, wellbeing is impacted by a fundamental disconnection from one's essence. This misalignment can stem from factors such as intergenerational trauma—along with the social, psychological, physiological, and cultural challenges that accompany it. Te Whare Hau expresses our holistic pathways of wellbeing utilising mātauranga Maaori, kōrero, whakapapa, waananga and rongoā.
-
Whaanau inclusive rehabilitation plan
-
Medical assessment with our drug and alcohol nurse, medical doctor and/or lead practitioner
-
1:1 sessions with our Lead AOD Practitioner
-
1:1 sessions with a ACC registered Counsellor
-
1:1 sessions with a Wairua Practitioner
-
Group work & sessions
Who Is Eligible?
This service is ideal for individuals struggling with meth, alcohol or other drug-related issues, those seeking to reduce or abstain from substance use, and anyone looking for a holistic, evidence-based approach to substance use recovery.
How to Enquire
To access Te Whare Hau, participants or concerned caregivers can enquire below to submit a private and confidential enquiry and one of our team will be in contact.
Te Whare Hau - Community Base Methamphetamine Support & Social Detox Service
Wairuatanga is a gentle introduction to wellbeing from a te ao Maaori perspective.
Discussing concepts such as whakapapa, ngaa kete maatauranga, te whare waananga and more; whaanau are guided by Papa Wiremu & Koka Lesley in processing their own learnings and understandings through a wairua lens. This is a space for whaanau to dive deeper into their experiences and take away a few tools to work through challenges we may face in our daily lives.
Who Is Eligible?
This 1-day waananga is ideal for individuals interested in building cultural knowledge and understandings around wairua and wairua experiences.
How to Enquire
To participate in our Wairuatanga waananga, please contact our team below.
Waananga - Wairuatanga
Cultivate your Uruora wellbeing, knowledge, understanding, maatauranga & atua maareikura through the conscious pursuits of waahine toa warriorship. Rikoriko is a 2-day waananga focussed on the activation of self through the traditional instruments of mere, patu & rakau.
Who Is Eligible?
This waananga is for waahine interested in connectedness through waahinetanga and the ancient streams of knowledge.
How to Enquire
To participate in our Rikoriko Waananga, please follow the link below.
Waananga - Rikoriko
Explore a pathway of quintessential power & spirit towards accessing the whatumanawa as Tane, through multiple mediums of rakau, mere pounamu patu, karakia takutaku, korero tukuiho, haa uruora, maramataka and warrior skills knowledge systems handed down through the passages of time.
Who Is Eligible?
This waananga is for taane interested in connectedness through the creative access portal to what is known at te whatumanawa (divine essence).
How to Enquire
To participate in our Matarua Waananga, please follow the link below.
Waananga - Matarua
The Alcohol and Other Drugs service is designed for individuals and whaanau seeking to address and move away from unhelpful substance use and related life issues or problems. This service offers a combination of wairua-driven mahi and evidence-based harm reduction or abstinence models. The assessment aims to provide helpful tools for your kete maatauranga to support long-term recovery and wellbeing. Through personalised one-on-one sessions and continuous support, individuals receive the tools and guidance needed for a healthier, substance-free life.
Who Is Eligible?
This service is ideal for individuals struggling with alcohol or other drug-related issues, those seeking to reduce or abstain from substance use, and anyone looking for a holistic, evidence-based approach to substance use recovery.
How to Enquire
To access the Te Whare Wai Maarie (Addictions) service, participants can book one-on-one sessions by appointment through the administration team aronui@thc.org.nz.
Te Whare Wai Maarie - Addictions
