Our online courses are designed so that they can be completed at your own pace, in your own time. With work and study commitments, engaging with external education be a tricky commitment. Our kaiako provide ongoing support to fit your learning style and needs
- Whatu Kura Toi: the stones of knowledge
- Te Kotahitanga (coming soon)
- Toi Raupapa (coming soon)
Whatu Kura Toi: the stones of knowledge
What is it?
Whatu Kura Toi is our introductory online course, designed to accommodate people from all backgrounds who want to deepen their understanding of Te Ao Māori. Designed by an Indigenous education model, this course uses individual experience with our mātauranga to give truthful meaning to the past, and applying it into a creative kaupapa for the present. With our limitless means to kōrero through the digital space, the barriers to education shrink, and the enjoyment of learning emerges in a way that enhances what it means to be Māori. We believe all Māori can be active agents in weaving the fabric of modern Māori society, but first that involves carving out your best contribution to where you come from.
Navigate through six modules:
Whakapapa
Taonga
Kaitiakitanga
Manaakitanga
Toi Principles
Creative Design
You will receive:
Access to our digital whare which operates through our Discord community channel. This is a safe place to kōrero about ideas, personal experience, and creativity related to Te Ao Māori. Whatu Kura Toi provides mātauranga that informs creative practice, such as incorporating oral narratives, pūrākau, and karakia which are in downloadable PDF’s for you to keep. Finish the course by incorporating the mātauranga you’ve learned into a creative design, to which you’ll receive a Māori recognised certificate of completion.
Te Kotahitanga
What is it?
This newly designed course opens up the Māori worldview and its unifying aspects for the workplace and care sector. With our diversified world, interaction is inevitable, which means being able to move and interact with a keen awareness can reshape our conceptions of who we are and what we might yet become