Reframe Wānanga

Reframe Wānanga is a place to learn and share ideas about our mental wellbeingIt’s a complex combination of a person’s physical, mental, emotional and social health factors. Wellbeing is strongly linked to happiness and life satisfaction. In short, wellbeing could be described as how you feel about yourself and your life.. Based on the recovery collegeA recovery college is an intentional peer project where people with lived experience come as learners and facilitators to focus on developing a variety of recovery tools to support their wellbeing journey. model from the U.K. Reframe Wānanga provides courses which are fun and innovative, where different topics about mental wellbeingIt’s a complex combination of a person’s physical, mental, emotional and social health factors. Wellbeing is strongly linked to happiness and life satisfaction. In short, wellbeing could be described as how you feel about yourself and your life. are discussed and where we share different approaches to learn about recovery. All the courses at Reframe Wānanga are based on co-productionCo-production is an ongoing partnership between people who design, deliver and commission services, people who use the services and people who need them., which means that the courses are designed and run by people with lived experiencePersonal experience of mental healthMental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. challenges, service use, periods of healing/personal recovery; or experience of supporting someone through mental healthMental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. challenges, service use, periods of healing/personal recovery. and professionals. We place equal value on expertise learnt by experience and expertise gained from working professionally. This means that we see each other as equals whatever our background, and view everyone as a learner about recovery. Stepping out of our roles and sharing from experience helps us to look at mental wellbeingIt’s a complex combination of a person’s physical, mental, emotional and social health factors. Wellbeing is strongly linked to happiness and life satisfaction. In short, wellbeing could be described as how you feel about yourself and your life. in a different way.

Te manu e kai ana i te miro, nōna te ngahere; te manu e kai ana i te mātauranga, nōna te ao

We believe in an educational and empowerment approach to mental healthMental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. and wellbeing, because knowledge is power!

We’re not a counselling service or a mental healthMental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. clinic, we don’t do therapyTherapy is the process of working with a licensed therapist, counselor, or psychologist to develop positive thinking and coping skills and treat mental healthMental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. issues such as mental illnessMental illnesses are health conditions involving changes in emotion, thinking or behavior (or a combination of these). Mental illnesses can be associated with distress and/or problems functioning in social, work or family activities. and trauma. or need you to have a referral showing your mental healthMental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make healthy choices. is “bad enough” to be here…

What we are about is providing lots of opportunities for young people to learn about how our brains, bodies, thoughts and emotions work, and try out creative things that could support your wellbeing or to get through tough times (whatever those look like for you).

Some of our workshops are one-off events over a couple of hours, other courses run over four or five sessions or weeks. We aim to keep group sizes small and provide support for people coming along to get the most out of being involved – whether that’s making sure there are gluten free snacks, to providing some phone or txt support before a course to help combat feelings of big anxiety.