Community Workshops Coming Up Taonga Takiwātanga / Aroreretini / Kura Urupare Neurodiversity for 2026
Mind Over Manner has received funding to bring our facilitator and team of accomplished actors to Whakatāne, Ōpōtiki , Tolaga Bay , Rotorua , Kirikiriroa , Tāmaki Makaurau
A big thank you to the Sutherland Self Help Trust, EastBay REAP , Te Ariroa Evolutions Charitable Trust and Tolaga Bay Area School for their wonderful support
For late 2026 / early 2027
We await funding outcomes and hope to bring these community workshops to Te Tai Tokerau – Taipā , Kaitaia, Kaikohe , Kerikeri , Te Pēwharangi , Te Hokianga-nui-a-Kupe
Please make contact if you would like a workshop to come near to you.
In 2025
Mind Over Manner were generously funded by The Sutherland Self Help Trust to bring community workshops to 5 areas in 2025 Waihōpai (Invercargill), Ōtepoti, Taupō , Rotorua , Te Tairāwhiti
These workshops were designed for Whānau, Community, Health, Social and Wellbeing Organisations, The Workplace & Educators
Please make contact if you can donate to help bring a workshop to any area of your choice.
We will collaborate with you and your community to gather and grow collective understanding.
This is so we can ALL contribute and so our sensitive young people can have the best opportunities to lead full and nourished lives.
Mind Over Manner Community Responses
“Tonight, Mind Over Manner have allowed some deep learning to happen and I’m so grateful. I hope that this kind of thing can continue to happen so that the kids of this generation can continue to blossom and grow. Kia Ora.” — Josephine Piriwaka, Whakatane Workshop Participant, 2020.
Mind Over Manner Filmed Webinar Workshops
I am currently doing your online training – Dialing Up Dialing Down and finding it life changing – for myself and for the students in our school
It has been brilliant, relatable and extremely easy to watch, it has also opened up many conversations between myself and others. The use of video examples is brilliant and each clip makes me think of a different child/young person I am or have worked alongside.
2023 Workshops and Tours
1. Te Tai Tokerau Tour
2. Outward Bound Marlborough.
3. Massey University Auckland.
4. Wellington – City Art Gallery
5. Taranaki – Len Lye Govette Brewster
6. Auckland Neurodiversity Professional Development in Education
7. May Road primary
8. Waikōwhai Intermediate
9. Waitakere Alternative Education Consortium
10. NZMA – Auckland Trades Campus
11. Selwyn College
12. Canterbury District Youth Forum
13. Corrections – Rangitahi team
14. Laura Ferguson Brain Injury Trust
15. Odyssey House
16. Methodist Mission
17. Real
18. Ara
19. Enabling Good Lives
Special thanks to Foundation North for funding our Te Tai Tokerau Tour.
Special thanks to Lotteries NZ for funding our workshops in Wellington and Taranaki
Mind Over Manner Podcast Contribution Ep 4 and 10
