Creative Therapies with Communities and Iwi
We collaborate with workplaces, iwi, and community organisations to provide therapeutic support and professional development for their people. This ranges from running workshops with staff, to providing on-demand therapy for individuals, to facilitating creative therapy group sessions.
For:
Iwi, communities, organisations, workplaces, social services
Our model of work
We provide a combination of the following, tailored to each community that we work with:
1. Individual or Small Group Therapy Sessions
One of our registered therapists works with specific kaimahi or clients in individual sessions or groups. Examples of the populations we support include:
- People in the workplace (supporting with stress, anxiety, trauma, crisis, etc.)
- Disabled people and their whānau through accessible creative therapy approaches
- People with neurological conditions such as dementia, stroke, multiple sclerosis etc.
- People engaging with social support services
- People with fostered or adopted tamariki
- Neurodiverse people and their whānau
- Therapists, social workers, community workers, etc. with professional development and wellbeing support
2. Whānau Support
Our therapists offer individualised support for identified whānau. We often facilitate tailored, fun workshops for whānau, resourcing them with strategies to connect and calm within their own whare. We also offer access to our Resilience and Calm Connection library of 2–3-minute videos with ideas they can use at home, and can provide mentoring support for whānau who are fostering/adopting tamariki.
3. Workshops
Two of our trained & experienced therapists come to your community space or workplace (or host your group online) and run 2-2.5-hour workshops. Our workshops resource kaimahi to manage stress, trauma and anxiety within your community, with simple & usable creative therapy tools. We also resource teams with tailored videos, pdf resources and more as needed.
4. Support Visits
One of our therapists visits your organisation, to support kaimahi (e.g. support workers), in their trauma-informed use of creative tools. This gives kaimahi an opportunity to discuss challenges, receive tailored support and ideas around supporting their specific community, and see our therapists model approaches/strategies.
How we work
Our practical tools are grounded in trauma-informed dance, arts and music therapy research and knowledge, and support child and adolescent development and wellbeing across diverse populations.
Underpinned by Te Tiriti, we strive to be an active collaborator of mana-enhancing practice alongside our communities. Our approaches in using waiata, movement, sound, rhythm, and arts within a therapeutic context are tools that find resonance in a wide variety of cultures, while Te Ao Māori frameworks underpin our bicultural practice model. To read more about our values and bicultural approach, please click here.
Our areas of expertise are in trauma-informed care and education, and supporting people with diverse needs. We use creative therapy approaches to skill-share simple, practical tools in music, arts and movement that support development and relational wellbeing. We work ecologically, looking at how we can awhi not only the individual in therapy sessions, but their community, whānau, and any kaimahi involved in supporting the individual/whānau.
We use a strengths-based focus and the shared language of rhythm, sound, creativity and movement to bridge and enhance communication, connection, and community. Our therapists are experienced in supporting a full range of ages, from pēpi to end of life care.
Working with trauma
Trauma and the management of trauma in people through dance, arts and music therapy tools is a specialised area that requires extensive and specific training. Our focus remains on the use of creativity for calm connection allowing integration of learning and flourishing for our communities. We also use a tools-based approach that empowers kaimahi and whānau in complex situations, and to support wellbeing in their whare through simple practices that are woven into their existing schedules.
Our team have a deep understanding of the psychotherapeutic process of music, arts, and dance movement therapy in relation to adverse experiences and trauma. Without this understanding, well-intentioned practice has the potential to do further harm. Our kaupapa relies on current research-based practice and developmental understanding of the effect of trauma and adversity.
Referral and consent process
We work collaboratively with communities to identify individuals/whānau in need of support, and then design our therapeutic offerings to suit them. Obtaining informed consent is important, and we use colourful, visually accessible consent forms to support people and whānau in this process, prior to commencing therapy sessions.
For large group work, such as community-wide approaches, individual consent is not required, but we are happy to support organisations in communicating about our programmes.
Child protection
Mauri Tui Tuia is fully committed to safeguarding the welfare of children by identifying and responding to vulnerability, child abuse and neglect in an effective and efficient manner. Our therapists are registered, trained professionals, and have been vetted in full compliance with the Vulnerable Children’s Act. A copy of our Child Protection Policy can be found here.
If a disclosure is made by a young person, the therapist will let the ākonga know that the therapist will talk to someone else about it, then complete a Mauri Tui Tuia Child Concern form.
Mauri Tui Tuia has a Child Protection Lead, who will work with the therapist to notify the appropriate kaimahi of the contents of the Child Concern form. Appropriate further action will be taken in partnership and discussion with the kaimahi and whānau involved.
If any concerns arise around the therapist’s actions or behaviours, please immediately contact Katie Pureti, Mauri Tui Tuia's Child Protection Lead and Executive Director at katie@maurituituia.com.
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Contact
To inquire about having us work in your iwi, community, or organisation, please contact us, and one of our directors will discuss with you.
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