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Youth Tribe Art Connection

Youth Tribe Art Connection is an eight-week after school art connection for female and male students ages 14+ lead by creative clinical arts therapist Hannah Eriksen-Gowing & empowerment life coach Dee Petit, who lead youth through a series of creative art projects and mindfulness activities. Participants are offered an opportunity to experience and explore their emotional well-being through creative art while reflecting on the Maori Health Model ‘Te whare tapa whā’ concepts as it relates to individual wholeness.

It is a safe ART space of inclusion, connection and involvement in positive, healthy relationships and simple acts of giving, mindfulness, self-learning, creativity and being active that uplift everyone involved. Our aim is to encourage, build trust, and inspire creative expression in the development and unfolding of individual personal identity, values and goals which gives our teenage participants access to another language and knowledge base. When youth feel safe, supported, loved and a sense of belonging, their confidence, willingness, and ability to participate in discovering and achieving their purpose and potential is unleashed and they then feel empowered to create positive change in their personal lives, families, and local neighbourhoods.

Each session builds upon our overall vision, which is to make an impact on our future leaders by assisting them in finding their True North, their internal compass in life.  We incorporate visual arts, a range of art materials and recycled products in our art projects. All students will be able to participate at a level that is comfortable and suitable for them.

We provide students a space in which they can bring in their unique stories, cultural backgrounds and ethnic identities in order to collaborate on art projects that have personal meaning and serve as a reminder of the celebration of both diversity and togetherness.

 Date & Location -TBA

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/youthtribenz

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The ART Collective Project

Eight artists from diverse cultural backgrounds living in Auckland are working together to teach a wide range of original practices in open art spaces that offer opportunities of self-development in one’s individual art practice. As a collective that teaches various modalities of art, we help participants to use different materials to produce artwork that is relevant to them. Even if students don’t think of themselves as creative, we want to create an environment that encourages them to have fun and be playful in their art.

The ART Collective Project offers you the opportunity to uncover and develop your  artistic creative talents for beginners and emerging artists. With assistance from our collective creative artists, you will be inspired and gently guided into using the mediums of palette knife painting, watercolour, acrylic, life drawing, print making, collage, creative ink art, and sewn textile fibre art. As with all creative processes it offers a therapeutic environment to be nourished by.  No experience is necessary, just a desire to create!

Our students/participants are always encouraged to explore and express the wonderment of ART through wide range of mediums. Through discovery and play one uncovers personal jewels that lay beneath the surface. 

More information about the ART Collective:

https://www.facebook.com/ArtCollectiveProject

https://shilohcentre.org.nz/art-collective/

ART Collective Project presents a new series of art classes in 2025

Outside the Box – FREE FLOW offers outside the box creative play-flowing experiences for individuals to find the artist within, capturing moments in time, in safe unique art spaces that allow our creative genius to unwind, to let go, engage with a subject in nature, sit by the sea shore to capture the sunrise, paint garden flowers, and forest trees and reconnect with the authentic ME.

Being in FREE FLOW means opening the senses, stimulating, visualising, feeling, touching, listening and tuning into the moment. The ART Collective Project artists are offering different mediums at different locations throughout Auckland communities from May through December. Let’s ride the waves of creative expression together.

May 2025 Classes

June 2025 Classes

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Back 2 Basics Programme

Restaurant Chilling Out Classy Lifestyle Reserved Concept

We assist people to learn the ‘why’ we must change, and the motivation to do so!

Back 2 Basics is a 6-week program that is a face to face, interactive, educational experience with Naturopath Shirley Tuffery who teaches youth, women and men to understand the basics of our physiology and how the body systems all work together as a functioning whole (nothing exists in isolation). This foundational theory will be balanced out with the practical hands-on cooking experience with and Empowerment Life Coach & Cook Dee Petit , using seasonal fruits, vegetables and nutrient rich ingredients which will focus on experiencing how easy it can be to sustain healthy families by providing simple, nutritious, cost-effective meals.

The core aim of Back to Basics, is to demonstrate how we feel and function when in a state of wellbeing and how we can learn to take self-responsibility by being equipped with the tools to make better lifestyle choices. Thus, not only preventing illness, but achieving vibrant health, strength, and vitality.

Our goal is to provide educational and practical knowledge that is easy to implement, enabling participants to make healthy lifestyle choices to balance body and mind. Promoting a healthy lifestyle in the home and raising healthy children ensures positive happy attitudes that encourage all to actively contribute to our communities.

At the end of the course, the participants will understand the basics of the human body and its functions and the connection between physical and mental health. The meal preparations, using a variety of simple, tasty and cost-effective recipes, will encourage the participants to integrate and apply the learned knowledge and cooking skills into their daily lives using the practical skills and techniques taught during the six-week program.

The focus is on education, self-responsibility, empowerment, wellness, and prevention. We aim to provide basic knowledge that will form a solid foundation for future generations.

Date: 5 March thru 9 April 2025

Time: Wednesdays 10:00am – 2:30 pm

Location: Onehunga Community Hub – 83 Church Street, Onehunga Auckland

FREE Community Programme – 12 spaces available

To contact us about this programme please fill in enquiry form below.

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Women’s Support Circle

Women’s Support Circle provide a safe space for healing and growth. This circle utilizes a strengths-based, supportive approach interwoven with culturally responsive frameworks such as Te Whare Tapa Wha to emphasize interconnected wellbeing across mental, physical, spiritual, and familial domains and the Tree of Life model, that encourages reflection on personal strengths, resources, and support systems.

Exploring holistic wellbeing through expressive arts, participants can explore their experiences nonverbally, as well as verbally, this can foster safety, while creating transformation. Integrating these frameworks, the circle aims to empower women to reclaim their narratives, cultivate resilience and creativity, and foster a sense of agency in their healing journeys.

This established 12-week programme has been offered through the Shiloh Creative Life Centre Charitable Trust since 2021. Shiloh’s team are in collaboration with Maclaurin Chapel @ Auckland University to offer this circle for women seeking support in a therapeutic, safe community circle of women.

Our weekly contact consists of nine on-line two-hour zoom calls on Wednesday evenings, 6:30-8:30pm and 3 in-person Wednesday evening gatherings @ Maclaurin Chapel at Auckland University to support womens’ in connecting together, and encouraging friendships to be formed. Throughout the programme women will be supported to explore life issues creatively to enhance overall well-being. Coming together in a safe space, women can experience a sense of belonging,  release stress and creative restoration within a community that enhances their lives. 

For more details: https://shilohcentre.org.nz/2025-womens-support-circle/

Date: 26 MARCH THRU 11 JUNE 2025

Time: Wednesdays 6:30pm -8:30pm

FREE participation for 8 women this term

To contact us about this programme please fill in registration form below.

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Morris Tuffery

Naturopath and Homoeopath

Bsc(Hons),ND,Rhom

Morris Tuffery is a qualified Naturopath and Homoeopath with 40 years’ experience in the use of these therapies. He ran a very busy and successful public clinic in New Plymouth for 15 years. In addition to this, he has a real passion for passing on his knowledge in the form of courses and seminars.

Morris emphasises that most everyday maladies can be very effectively treated with Homoeopathy These illnesses include most ailments known to mankind, ranging from childhood complaints such as teething difficulties, ear infections, learning difficulties etc., to every possible kind of adult dis-ease, including shingles, sleep problems, menstrual problems, arthritis, circulatory problems etc.

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Lianne Divine – Ayurvedic Wellbeing Consultant

Lianne Graduated from Auckland’s Wellpark College of Natural Therapies in 2009 with Diplomas in Yoga and Ayurvedic Medicine (4 years).  My training includes NZ Medical Institution level NZQA Anatomy & Physiology, Chemistry, Pathology and Diagnosis. The vast Science of Ayurvedic Medicine includes: Lifestyle Management, Nutrition, Diagnosis, Anatomy and Physiology, Internal Medicine, Herbology, Spirituality & Philosophy, Counselling, Body Therapies, Panchakarma Detoxification Therapy, Pre-conception care, Mother & Child care, Elderly care, Yogic Science, Breath awareness/Pranayama, Asana, Meditation and Mindfulness.

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Banoo Matin, Naturopathic Physician

Banoo is registered with NZNMA, as a certified by Natural Health Practitioners of New Zealand in Naturopathy, Nutrition and Herbal Medicine.

Ozone therapy is her passion. It has been used in medicine since 1915 and now with 100 years of clinical use behind it has an impressive record in improving health and restoring normal physiological function.

What might it do for you? Essentially ozone restores oxygen saturation to the body’s tissues. With any form of illness, the oxygen levels drop and if they get depressed 40% below normal cancer is encouraged to grow. Low oxygen signals fatigue, usually becoming chronic. The oxidative (Life Force) power of the body is reduced and metabolism goes down to a less efficient level. Conversely, when the oxygen saturation is returned to normal there is a strong chance of recovery of normal physiological function i.e.: A return to better health.

Ozone therapy is unsurpassed as a method of oxygenation and is a cousin of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Six treatments are required to receive the ozone effect and as metabolism improves vastly resulting benefits are very long lasting.