EDUCATION
Taranaki Cathedral offers education that navigates the good and bad of history, taking Te Tiriti o Waitangi seriously in the work of reconciliation. We aspire to nurture a new generation of Māori and Tāngata Tiriti (people of the treaty), who are passionate for active peacemaking.
TE MANU HONONGA | Sir Paul Reeves Centre
Te Manu Hononga offers educational experiences focused on reconciliation and bi-cultural partnership aimed at healing the disconnect between Māori and European ways of being, and the social and environmental impacts that are created as a consequence.
Te Manu Hononga was established in the honour of Sir Paul Reeves (Te Ātiawa), who was the first Māori Archbishop and Māori Governor-General of New Zealand. Sir Paul was known for people and contexts into unity and was called he manu hononga – a bird that binds together. As a Māori person and Anglican minister, his spirituality and his theological underpinnings empowered his creative leadership into the places of his whakapapa and into places beyond our shores, such as Fiji, South Africa, Ghana, Guyana and the United Nations.
Te Manu Hononga is a work of Taranaki Cathedral, with offices and conferences rooms located on the first floor of the renovated vicarage.
The karakia below directs are learning in three streams: Atua (God), Whenua (Earth), Tāngata (People).
Korōria ki te Atua i runga rawa,
maungārongo ki te whenua,
whakaaro pai ki ngā tāngata katoa.Glory to God in the highest,
peace on earth,
goodwill to all people
THREE STREAMS OF LEARNING:
Atua: nature of Creator within all things
Whenua: our symbiotic relationship with land
Tangata: incarnational living, worldviews & cultural identity
TE WHARE HONONGA | The House That Binds
Te Whare Hononga is a whare wānanga - a flexible purpose-built education space and creative partnership between Ngāti Te Whiti and Taranaki Cathedral’s Church of St Mary, Te Whare Hononga is a safe place to gather as a community, hold wānanga, and learn our shared history.
Te Whare Hononga offers a free exhibition exploring our shared history. 9am-3pm Monday-Friday.
To learn more or plan a visit go here.
If you wish to hire Te Whare Hononga for a private event please see our venue hire page.
EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS
Role of the Church to Decolonise // Sir David Moxon
The Story of the Treaty PART 1 // Jay Ruka
The Story of The Treaty PART 2 // Jay Ruka
READING RESOURCES
A RESOURCE FOR TRICKY CONVERSATIONS
BOOKLET by J Ruka: Holding The History of the Land: Towards Social Justice