Author: The Project Team

It has been a long time between blogs for The Project team, the last one written near Matariki. All three of us have spent some of that time since June in travel and in connecting with whānau and loved ones. This has also meant that no time has been kept aside for blog writing. However … Continue reading Applying Māori values and concepts

Well here we are again in the middle of the year and as I sit by my fire with grey and drizzle outside it means we are also now in winter officially. And winter means we are close to Māori New Year and the celebration of Matariki. While for many the day off on 20 … Continue reading Matariki mā Puanga

Back, probably not as many years ago as I would like to think it was, I was one of those people who did not believe work could be done online.  Social work, supervision, anything that involved people work, couldn’t happen over a computer.  We needed to be in the room with each other, seeing body … Continue reading Zooming on and what I have learned

Many of us are currently thinking about what Te Tiriti o Waitangi means for us as a nation. Irrespective of any political positions, Te Tiriti has an undeniable presence in the spaces we call ‘supervision’ and ‘kaitiakitanga’. As Waitangi Day approaches this week, I’ve attempted to capture a few of my thoughts in this blog. … Continue reading Exploring Te Tiriti in Supervision in 2025