Haratua 2009

Albany Graduation

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From the Boardroom

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Welcome to Te Rau Puawai

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Support Staff Korero

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Beneath the Maori Moon Book Launch

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Children’s Health Camp Opening

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Other News 10

Inside this issue:

Tēnā koutou Te Whanau o Te Rau Puawai, Ka rere te ha o te kaikaranga, Ko au tera ko Kui Pani Henare Waru. Tu mai te maunga Hikurangi, te maunga whakaruru hou o nga maatua tipuna; Tukuna atu kia rere te reo karanga, Kia rongo ai te ao, ko te tangi whakahuahua korero, a te Kui. Haere atu korua nga tamahine, tikina atu te taonga a to korua whaea. Ko te mutunga ha o te karanga, kua tau, ko tangihia, ko mihingia. Moe mai ra, kua eke atu koe ki te Taumata o Te Ao Wairua. Nga mihi tino aroha ki Te Rau Puawai kaimaihi Ki a Tui, me nga tamariki katoa a Taumata. Ma Te Atua koutou e manaaki i nga wa katoa. Arohanui, Kui Pani, Papa Huatahi, Papa Turoa.

Albany graduation was a particularly meaningful occasion this year with the posthumous award of PGDip

Arts (Psychology) to Taumata Maunsell-Petersen, which was accepted by her whānau. Congratulations also to Takutai Wikiriwhi Scholarship bursar Rebecca Wirihana, partnership graduate, Cassandra Camp-bell graduated with her Bachelor of Social Work and Natasha McCausland who graduated in 2006 with her BA Psychology and in 2009 with GDip Teaching (Primary).

Nga mihi ki a koutou nga akonga kua whakapotaitia ki Oteha i te ra marama.

Congratulations Albany Graduates.

Taumata’s whānau accepting her tohu, Rebecca Wirihana BA (Hons) (Takutai Wikiriwhi TRP recipient), Nata-sha McCausland, GDip Teaching (Primary) (Graduate of TRP) & Cassandra Campbell, BSW (No photo available)

From the Boardroom

Tēnā koutou te whānau o Te Rau Puawai Firstly, congratulations to all students who graduated at the Albany ceremony in April. Graduation is a time to reflect on the hard work and dedication you have injected into your studies in order to complete a qualifica-tion. While you may think you have reached your goal and are never going to study again, take time out, but at some stage (don’t leave it too long) return to studies, so that you can con-tinue to gain, share and contribute knowledge. The Board is also pleased to welcome Marga-reth Broodkoorn, Clinical and Community De-velopment Manager, Hauora Hokianga to the Board of Management. Margareth has a wealth of knowledge in the health sector and we look forward to her contribution and exper-tise at the governance level. At the July learning conference a workshop on critical thinking is being held to stimulate your minds and to get you thinking about yourself and what you are doing and how this fits within the Māori mental health sector, locally, nation-ally and globally.

Kia ora koutou Hasn’t it been a busy time and I don’t think it is going to slow down any time soon. But besides being part of a great concert at the Gisborne Children’s Village, it was awe-some to celebrate with our whānau and part-ners at the Albany graduations, in particular the acknowledgement of the posthumous qualification, Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Psychology) awarded to Taumata. Also, well done Fee for completing her MA. I hope everyone enjoyed their contact courses and I am glad to see that the infor-mal written communications workshop Fee and Jo organised for our whānau was ex-tremely beneficial to those who attended, particularly as our whānau felt comfortable in stressing their views to the paper co-ordinator. I am sure she will take on board all the feedback and may make changes to next year’s study guide. The semester is coming to a close and most whānau will be studying for exams, dig a bit deeper and give it heaps, you will be re-warded for all your late and stressful nights. Look forward to catching up with whānau in July and apologies for change of dates I got the school holiday dates mixed up with the boarding school dates.

Ngā mihi nui ~ Moni

Congratulations to all our Graduates

Finally good luck with your exams and we look forward to catching up with you all, ei-ther at one of our graduation ceremonies or at the learning conference. Kia Maia ~ TRP Board

Moni’s Korero

Nau mai, haere mai

Te Rau Puawai would like to welcome Margareth Broodkoom from one of our Northland PHO part-ners Hokianga Health (Te Pou Ora o Te Piringatahi I Te Rau Puawai Scholarship) who joins Profes-sor Mason Durie, Dr Denise Wilson, Wheturangi Walsh-Tapiata, Spencer Lilley, Hingatu Thompson and Monica Koia on the Board of Management.

Margareth Broodkoorn (Ngāpuhi, Dutch) Qualifications: RGON, MN, BHSc, PG Cert PH, PG Dip HSc, Cert. Clinical Tchg (Māori). Margareth is a Registered Nurse whose health career spans a range of health and education sector roles. Her health and research interests in-clude primary and community health care with a focus on improving Māori health outcomes and the Māori health workforce. Completing a Masters of Nursing (2006) that explored the relationship be-tween Kaupapa Māori and Participatory Action research methodologies in supporting Māori Community Development has been a research highlight. Margareth is currently employed with Hauora Hokianga as the Clinical and Community Develop-ment Manager. This role focuses on the wider organisational clinical development, with direct line management responsibilities of the Community Development and Mental Health teams.

TRP would also like to formally welcome Laura Buckley into her new position as part-time sup-port tutor in Palmerston North. Laura has been a student on TRP for a couple of years and has also been on the phone team as a mentor for the undergraduate psych students for a couple of years. If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of meeting her then here is a little bit of information about her: Ko Taupiri te maunga Ko Peter rāua ko Ann ōna tūpuna ki te taha o tōna pāpā Ko Waikato te awa Ko Ted rāua ko Gloria ōna tūpuna ki te taha o tōna māmā Ko Potatau te tangata Ko Bruce rāua ko Debra ōna mātua He piko, he taniwha Ko Sarah tōna tuakana He piko, he taniwha Ko ia te pōtiki o te whānau Ko Laura Buckley tōna ingoa

Laura will be joining Byron and Fee as a team of support tutors. She will be based in Palmerston North in the TRP Whānau room with Fee. She will start on Monday May 4 and will be available: Monday 8am-4.30pm, Wednesday 8am-12.30pm, Thursday 5.30-8.30pm. She will have her own email address and phone line which will be confirmed soon and sent out. Laura has been a great help as part of the TRP team and we look forward to working with her when she comes back from holiday in Thailand!

Nei te mihi mahana ki a koutou i tēnei wā-hanga o te tau. Kei te makariri haere ngā rā, ā, kei te tere haere hoki. Kei te haere mai te tau hou me ngā kaimahi hou hoki. Nau mai ki tēnei whānau o Te Rau Puawai.

It has been great to catch up with students during their contact courses in Palmerston North. I hope you all had clarification on your assignments and used the break to catch up with study as we launch into the second half of the semester.

We are also celebrating our 2009 graduates in Albany, Palmerston North and Wellington. Congratulations to you all (and your whānau) for such an achievement. I look forward to hearing of your fruits in the workplace or hav-ing you back again to further your studies.

We are also proudly welcoming some new staff to TRP: new Board member Margareth Broodkoorn and part-time support tutor Laura Buckley. Welcome to the TRP whānau – we are lucky to have such great team members.

Now for studies – we are quickly coming to exam revision time. Make sure that you stay on top of your readings and assignments, as extensions now will lead to less time to revise for exams. Remember you can get old exams from the Massey library website http://kea.massey.ac.nz/screens/exams.html or you can request a hard copy to be sent to you from the extramural Library service http://library.massey.ac.nz/massey/library/library-services/forms/extramural-exam-paper-request-form.cfm. We will be sending out exam tips soon. If you would like help with exam revision please do not hesitate to con-tact us – we are all here to help.

Most importantly, winter sports has started so wrap up warm for the chilly Saturday mornings watching whānau sports (or playing yourself). I look forward to catching up with you all at the mid-year hui.

Ngā manaakitanga o te wā, Fee Support Tutor

Kia ora ki te whānau o Te Rau Puawai It is mid-semester break as I write this al-though it’s study as usual for many of us. Soon those sitting papers will be on the last stretch of the semester with assignments due. There always seems to be so much to do nē? This means that you can feel overwhelmed and sometimes stress or panic with the pres-sure. One way to relieve this pressure is to relax and that can mean taking time out to have fun, do some deep breathing or talk things over with friends, family or a counsellor such as Whāea Margaret Walsh at the Massey coun-selling centre. Once your assignments are finished you may have the joy of exams to sit and pass! As I al-ways say get hold of past exam papers and study the questions or topics that routinely ap-pear in that exam. Take care first to check with your paper coordinator that the exam is not going to change in format or content.

Phone Team Korero

Also, is your paper coordinator new to the pa-per? because if that is the case then the exam could well be different this year. It is helpful as well to form a group to study for exams. If you need any help such as checking assignments or exam tips let me or Fee or your phone team member know. Autumn is here now and the leaves are falling and this always reminds me of graduation and my moko playing in the leaves at Massey on my own graduation day. On April 23 I was lucky enough to be at the Albany grads for the first time and really en-joyed them. It was awesome to see Rebecca Wirihana and Cassandra Campbell from TRP graduate. Kia mau te wehi korua. It was extra special to see Taumata Maunsell-Petersen’s whānau and to see her two daughters accept Taumata’s posthumous Postgraduate Diploma in Psychology. Thank you Whāea Pani for your karanga. Staff, students and the audi-ence stood to acknowledge Taumata and it was very emotional and memorable. Kia kaha Whaea Val Postgraduate Psychology Phone Team

Kia ora e te whānau, April and May are a time of celebration and excitement as our Te Rau Puawai whānau be-come graduates. It is the celebration of hav-ing had a moemoea and working hard to achieve it, and the blood, sweat and tears that goes with it (as anyone who has had a com-puter crash at 3.00am in the morning and lost a whole assignment knows!!!). It is a celebration of the whānau who kept the home fires burning to allow the graduate to study - the kids who kept themselves busy and occupied whilst Mum or Dad (or both) studied for an exam or worked on assignments, the partner who did the housework or cooked the tea so that the graduate could read yet an-other reading, the workmate who read an as-signment to see if it made sense, the nanny or koro who took the kids out to the park so the graduate could focus on study. Our celebration is a whānau celebration and event. For many we may be the first in our whānau to graduate from a university. How exciting for our children to see us graduating – role models and mentors for them!! How ex-citing for our partners, siblings, Mums and Dads, grandparents, nieces, nephews, aunties, uncles, friends and colleagues. Enjoy this special time and treasure it. For the rest of us that continue to work to-wards our moemoea, be inspired by those who graduate, be excited because one day it will be you celebrating that you have achieved your goals - it will be you and your whānau walking across that stage to let the world know that you did it. Keep ringing in to phone team on a Thursday night whānau. We love hearing from you and we are here to help you when you need it - to talk through assignments, celebrate your passes, and give guidance to help strengthen

Phone Team Korero Cont’d

your study journey. I am looking forward to catching up with every-one at the mid year hui so take care, keep warm in these colder months and waea mai whānau. Arohanui Ange Undergraduate Social Work Phone Team Kia ora whānau Hope you all had a fantastic Easter break!! I know many of you have had contact courses in the break too and I hope they have been fantastic, enjoyable and that you have learnt lots from them! I have enjoyed the contact so far this year with all of the psych undergrads and I look forward to continuing to get to know you all throughout the year. It was also good to see some of you throughout the middle of April up at the whānau room. In other news I have taken on the role of 0.5 FTE (or 20 hours) a week as a support tutor for Te Rau Puawai. This will involve some similar duties as Fee and Byron and I will be more available during the week. I will have contact phone and e-mail details which will be provided to you when they are finalised. I will still be the phone team tutor for psych under-grads but also have contact with other stu-dents studying in different disciplines.

For those of you who don’t really know me or can’t remember my korero from various hui that we have had I am Ngāti Whanaunga raua ko Ngāti Paoa, ko Tainui te waka. I was born in Wanganui and have done most of my schooling in Feilding and Palmerston North. I am the potiki in my family and have one older sibling Sarah who works in Palmerston North. My fabulous parents also live here in Palmy-vegas! I am studying towards the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology and am in my second year of this degree – hoping to finish end of next year! I look forward to getting to know many more of you through this role and hope that I can be of help to you throughout the year. I start this role on the 4

th of May, 2009.

In case you are wondering why I haven’t been around over the last few weeks I went to Thai-land, My fiancé Matt’s sister got married over there. It was a fabulous trip! I hope everybody and their whānau are all do-ing well and I wish you all the best for the rest of 2009! Laura Undergraduate Psychology Phone Team

Kia ora koutou Firstly, congratulations to all who put in all the hard effort to walk across the stage and collect their tohu at their respective graduation cere-mony. An acknowledgment to whānau who have lost loved ones, aroha mai. To those who are or have been unwell, hopefully your recov-ery goes well. Congratulations to all extended whānau for your perseverance with those studying.

Korero from Albany Campus

Phone Team Korero Cont’d

Whānau that are prepping for assignments/exams, here are a few tips which you probably know already, however, refreshing /activating the mind can be helpful. The most important thing you can do to prepare for an assignment/exam is to start early. The days of studying for an assignment/exam on the bus going to school are over. Even if you got A's this way, it's not going to work very often with university material. University courses require far more effort. Step 1 Get a blank piece of paper and outline the ma-terial you need to study. This helps develop a "big picture" overview of the material. Start with big topics and leave room for subtopics. Fill in the information as best as you can. Get another sheet of paper and start over if neces-sary. Once you see all the units of information in front of you it will be easier to organize your studying. Step 2 Break the material into smaller chunks and study each one. Only once you understand each one should you move on to the next. Do this part alone in your quiet study place. This is when you start to memorise the information you'll need later. Write down any questions that you may have.

Step 3 Work with someone else to clarify anything that's confusing. Work with others, go to re-view sessions, see a tutor, or work with the professor. At this point it's important to make sure that everything is clearly understood. This is crucial. If this step is skipped then you're left with trying to memorise hundreds of useless factoids. It will never mean anything to you later. Step 4 Now it's time to put the information into your brain for retrieval. If you've been working all along you will already remember much of it. Make sure nothing is left out. Many students focus on this step exclusively. It's called cram-ming. Just say no. Step 5 This next step is not needed by everyone but it's useful if you are having trouble with the course. You've been studying for hours and hours but, do you really know anything? Try working with someone else who will ask you questions about the material. If you can an-swer and explain concepts without too much effort then you're in good shape. Usually this helps to expose areas that require more atten-tion and study. Step 6 If the previous step went well then all you have left is to work on weak areas and a general overview the material. If you didn't do well ex-plaining the material you'll need another round of steps 4 and 5. Hopefully you left time for this in your study schedule. X.T.B.S. KEEP YOUR MOJO INTACT, YOU CAN DO IT.

Byron Albany Support Tutor

Albany Korero Cont’d

So far there are four starters keen to undertake the Taupo Bike Challenge in November, and energise hinengaro, tinana and wairua, if you are interested let Byron know. It is 160km but can be done as a relay so ‘kaua e whakamā’

Beneath the Maori Moon Book Launch

On March 30 at Eden Park’s Hall of Legends in Auckland, Te Pūtahi-a-Toi staff joined Malcolm Mul-holland to celebrate the launch of his book Beneath the Māori Moon which documents the history of Māori rugby. Māori All Blacks, their whānau and celebrities such as John Rowles, Hinewehi Mohi and Shortland St actors Te Kohe Tuhaka (Kingi Te Wake) and Faye Symthe (Tania Jeffries) were also in attendance. We thank Malcolm for his assistance of Te Rau Puawai students with edit-ing theses and congratulate him on his accomplishment.

What a night! I will never forget the launch of Beneath the Māori Moon: An Illustrated History of Māori Rugby for as long as a live. And dare I say it, neither will those who were able to make it along to the Hall of Legends, Eden Park. I guess when you’ve been involved with a project for so long (five years to be exact), seeing something that you have created being released to the public is a moment worth savouring. The focus of the evening was the announcement of the Greatest Māori XV which is one of the chapters in the book. Broadcast live by the Māori Television crew, the panel of six selected the following players: George Nepia, John Timu, Rico Gear, J.B. Smith, Bill Osborne, Carlos Spencer, Sid Going, Buck Shelford, Waka Nathan, Zinzan Brooke, Tiny Hill, Robin Brooke, Carl Hayman, Hika Reid and Steve McDowall. Some were able to come and collect their pounamu taonga that had been especially carved and donated by Ngai Tahu. Other highlights of the evening included the powhiri by Ngāti Whatua, the speech made by Buck Shelford, Hinewehi Mohi and the Nepia whānau singing Beneath the Māori Moon and hearing again some of the rich stories that adorn the book. For those of you who missed the show, go to the Māori Television website and click on Native Affairs. At times such as these one reflects upon their journey in completing the project. Without doubt, my heartfelt thanks goes to Monica Koia and her dedicated team at Te Rau Puawai for giving me the support I needed, for feeding me when I looked like fading away, and for allowing me to break their printer! At least they can all rest in the knowledge that the book is completed. Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou o Te Rau Puawai. Malcolm Mulholland

Opening of the Children’s Health Camp

What talented young people we have at the Children’s Village. I was privileged to attend the Gis-borne Children’s Village end of term concert while on my regional visits up the Coast. At the end of each cycle the tamariki put on a show for their families. I was able to see upcoming poets, country and western singers, an Elvis Presley impersonator, all from children aged 5 to 10. Even one of the children was completing tertiary level te reo papers and had completed a 3000 word essay. Thank you to the kai mahi, whānau and tamariki for a thoroughly enjoyable regional visit.

- Moni

The Children’s Health Camp originated in 1919 by Dr Elizabeth Dunn, a school medical officer for Wanganui, who had the inspiration and opportunity to pilot a summer “Canvas Camp”. She gained help of a Wanganui farmer who offered his property as a venue and from there the Children’s Health Camp movement began. The new Te Kainga Whaiora Children’s Vil-lage based in Gisborne has a brand new con-temporary design, offering four houses three of which will act independently as warm spa-cious family homes. The houses (Whare) will collectively form a village environment where the children are nurtured and supported to grow and develop on their identified needs and strengths. Te Kainga Whaiora Children’s Village officially opened on Wednesday, March 18, 2009 by the Honorable Peter Dunn and Families Com-missioner Jan Pryor. This was a very special day for all concerned and for the people who attended the opening from all over the motu. The day was described by Awhiora Nia Nia-Tai, Manager as a great success receiving positive feedback and support by the local

A poem read by James at the Vil-lage Concert organized by the tamariki and staff.

A Friend Like You There's lots of things

With which I'm blessed, My problems have been few, But of all, this one's the best:

To have a friend like you. In times of trouble Friends will say,

"Just ask, I'll help you through it." But you don't wait for me to ask,

You just get up and do it! And I can think of nothing more

That I could wisely do, Than know a friend,

And be a friend, And have a friend like you.

The old (left) and the new (right) Chil-dren’s village. Below: Tamariki in front of the new building.

Congratulations to Fee who recently submitted

her thesis for the Master of Arts in Māori

Contact Courses

It was great to see many of our extramural whānau on campus during the mid semester break recently. I had a contact course myself at the time and found it so beneficial. Not only is it helpful to have the course co-ordinator at hand but also to meet the other students and hear their perspectives on the topics. It was also good to know I wasn't the only one con-fused about some of the denser, more lengthy readings. It assisted me to re-focus and re-minded me why I am studying in the first place. Thanks again to everyone involved with our Written Communications workshop that was run on April 17. I believe both staff and stu-dents found it very productive and useful. Not forgetting our internals, it was great to catch up with some of our locals for a kai, ko-rero and easter egg swap just before the mid-semester study break in early April.

July Learning Hui

Yes its time to start thinking about our mid year learning hui. Undergraduate dates: July 6 and 7, postgraduate dates: July 9 and 10. While the Headstart Hui focused on whanaun-gatanga and our decade celebrations, our learning hui are more specific to your study needs. There will also be a focus on creating critical minds which will assist you in better un-derstanding your studies as well as other ar-eas such as mahi and whānau life. Those who need travel arrangements made please ensure you advise me of your require-ments (see enclosed travel forms). It is really important that I have this information in order to make your bookings (especially flights) as early as possible. I will send out a reminder after which I wont be booking any more travel. It will be left for you to do and then seek reim-bursement. - Jo

Te Rau Puawai WebCT now has links to re-cordings of presentations from the Decade Symposium held in February. Go to https://secure.mymassey.com/webct_login.php

Enter your Massey ID number and PIN, click on Te Rau Puawai WebCT link, click on the Recorded Presentations icon. You can choose to watch the presentations individually. Don’t forget WebCT is a great forum to keep in touch with TRP whānau, whether it be about studies or just to say Kia Ora.

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