How this extension fits together.
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Garden Hope Board life stages or the four walls Te Taiao, Kaha, stories and support. Tools and pair activities are optional side paths. Stats, media kit, editorial policy and privacy remain.
Every stage of life belongs here.
Growing a whānau. Finding your feet. Sharing what you know. Wherever life finds you, there is a place to begin.
Hapūtanga
Pregnancy and before birth
Explore this stagePēpi
Birth and infancy
Explore this stageTamariki
Growing through play
Explore this stageRangatahi
Identity, movement and possibility
Explore this stagePakeke
Adults and everyday capability
Explore this stageKaumātua
Ageing with connection and choice
Explore this stageTe Ara Wairua
End of life, grief and remembrance
Explore this stageComponent list
LifeLinks; stage article; four-wall cards; inspiration/source card; filtered HopeBoard; accessible reading controls; PersonalTools; PairMode; consent enquiry; printable wānanga kit. Existing Site, Garden, Stats and Studio remain in place.
Copy wireframes
- Garden: existing photograph welcome Just sit / Keep walking read-aloud support.
- Life stage: heading and gentle introduction 3–5 starting points four walls sourced inspiration professional support link.
- Hope Board: real achievements stage / field / publicly identified rohe filters source and verification date share-story enquiry.
- Kaha: capability former identity prompt safe starting points adaptive options evidence.
- Tools: privacy choice check-in / journal / diary optional trend export / delete.
- Pairs: invitation shared activity reciprocal prompts swap roles or wander no monitoring.
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 repositoryThe 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.