Together, at your pace.

Invite a friend, kaumātua or mokopuna. Both people teach; age does not decide who guides. Nothing here links devices or opens private diaries.

We both choose to take part and can stop whenever we want.

Where these ideas come from

Conversation prompts below are original site wording informed by the kinship, reciprocity, getting started, guidance, empathy and affirmation themes in Pita Shelford’s 2025 thesis abstract. No participant kōrero is reproduced. These resources are not an authorised delivery of the Kaumātua Mana Motuhake programme.

Shelford (2025), University of Waikato repository

The 2017 dissertation and Warren’s Flaxmere study were named in the project brief. Their detailed frameworks and outcomes await original-source verification; no results or participant excerpts from them are presented here. No author or organisation endorsement is implied.