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Haerenga · coming soon

Kōkiri Rising

this is where change-makers rise

A monthly gathering for those who know that individuals are only ever as whole as the systems they live inside — and who are ready to do something about it.

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The pattern

If Dancing with the Shadow treats the individual, Kōkiri Rising is an attempt to treat the system.

We can restore a person again and again — and send them straight back into the structure that fractured them in the first place. This is a space for leaders and change-makers who see that pattern clearly, and who are no longer willing to just manage its damage.

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The gathering

Energy first. Strategy second.

Each gathering opens with energy work — restoring and revitalising the women who show up already depleted by the fight. From there we turn to the theory: systems thinking, anti-oppressive practice, the real gaps people are meeting in their work.

This isn't a support group and it isn't a strategy meeting. It's both, held together, on purpose.

Who this is for

For disrupters and liberators — not yet sure how, but not okay with the status quo.

Psychologists, social workers & doctors

Working inside hierarchies that were never built to truly serve the people passing through them.

Community workers & people in service

Tired and quietly oppressed by the very systems they swore an oath to.

People in positions of power

With lived experience of what those same structures cost.

Ecologists & scientists

Whose research already points toward the systemic change this space exists to imagine.

Activists & social-justice leaders

Looking for a collaborative room to think, not just another cause to carry alone.

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Restored energy first — so the thinking that follows actually has somewhere to land.

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The movement

90 minutes, once a month. Join anytime, come and go as you need.

There's no enrolment, no missed-session guilt — just ample space for the energy work, and reasonable space to document the real issues people are facing, so we can imagine new systems in response.

The aim is a point of difference: not another wellness offering, but a genuine part of a movement toward real, systemic change.

Investment

Donation-based, by design

This is remuneration that's felt, not directed — a way to be congruent with the very thing we're gathering to dismantle. What you give goes toward research into systems and anti-oppressive theories: the real inquiry that feeds the theory half of every gathering.

A closed loop — your donation funds the thinking that comes back to the group.

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