Do you need a CREATIVITY MENTOR to kick your arse, guide, inspire, motivate, teach, encourage, help and develop you to achieve YOUR CREATIVE GOALS AND DREAMS? I am NOW taking on new CREATIVITY TAUIRA and AUAHATANGA coaching clients, long distance online and via phone (aka right in your pocket).
This is for people who want a creative wake up call, help staying on track to achieve your creative aspirations, an experienced mentor and fire lit under you on the regular. This is for creativity across the board and is not specific to any one medium. No, I will not be teaching taa moko in this offering.
But I will teach you how to THINK, ACT, BEHAVE, DECIDE, COMPLETE, PROGRESS, BUILD and LAUNCH your own ideas in the best ways to suit YOUR unique recipe and makeup.
Tell your kin who may benefit from this opportunity to work with me one on one, personalized to YOUR situation and creative dreams. This is open to anyone who HAS A STRONG DESIRE TO WORK CREATIVELY, ACTIVELY and INTENTIONALLY WITH ME.
This is for you if you want and need TO PROGRESS AND EVOLVE YOUR OWN INDIVIDUAL CREATIVE and ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY.
This is for you if you are out of other options and YOU NEED TO MAKE IT AS A CREATIVE or if you are SOMEONE THAT DOES NOT FIT IN WELL OR SUCCEED ANYWHERE ELSE and instead of continuing to suffer trying to squash yourself into other peoples boxes…YOU DECIDE TO BET ON YOURSELF and TAKE A CHANCE ON YOU and what actually lights you up.
This is for you if no one else will invest in you so YOU MUST INVEST IN YOURSELF NOW. TODAY. Before this wayward society takes you out!
This is suitable for anyone that is at an earlier stage of their AUAHATANGA than me, or if you have seen me doing things that you also want to do (apart from tattooing).
We can start on YOUR NEW CREATIVE PATHWAY AND FIRST NEXT STEPS today! You can cancel at any time, no worries. You will need access to your own phone and wifi to participate in my AUAHATANGA programs and personalized coaching.
You will also need to actually DO the tasks and exercises that I give to you and CUSTOM CREATE FOR YOU.
Unconventional multi-passionate and neuro-spicy oddballs are going to love my style of unorthodox coaching. Creative people who have LOST THEIR SPARK and want TO COME BACK TO THE PATH will also benefit from this.
People with GOOD IDEAS that need a little help and boost to EXECUTE and KEEP EXECUTING will also get value from my unique style of mentoring.
You can participate weekly for as short or long as you like…until you no longer need or want what I have to give you. Everything is easier with a bit of support and my 20+ years of creative practice spanning multiple disciplines and countries is RARE, PRICELESS, UNIQUE and IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND ANYWHERE ELSE.
I will only be offering this for as long as I feel like it, or for as long as it is needed to serve the vast sections of my communities that would otherwise have FUCK ALL SUPPORTS IN BRINGING THEIR OWN UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL VISIONS INTO REALITY.
So if you know in your bones, and you can just FEEL IT…that you need to try this with me for at least a month to unstuck yourself and MOVE INTO DEEP CREATIVE FLOW AND PRODUCTIVE ARTISTIC EVOLUTION…SIGN UP TODAY and GET TO FUCKING CRACKING MY DARLING!
THIS IS GOING TO BE FUN!
You are going to love it…AND THE NEW WORK THAT COMES OUT OF YOU.
Let’s get you on your way this week!
$22AUD a week, get in the waananga and let’s do this together.
You can cancel at any time and try it for as long or short as you like.
Useful Resources
About my new ebook 'TOI TŪHĀHĀ: A Māori creative cultural therapy manual' coming soon
Toi Tūhāhā is a Māori creative cultural therapy framework that weaves together cultural knowledge, creative practice, somatic healing, ritual and therapeutic insight to support individuals and communities in reconnecting with identity, regulating emotion, integrating trauma, and restoring balance.
The name Toi Tūhāhā reflects a return to the creative origins of self — a standing place of identity, culture, and wairua. It honors the understanding that healing is relational, embodied, spiritual, and deeply connected to whakapapa, spirituality, self expression and whenua.
This framework is built on the belief that creativity is a powerful medicine. Through colour, movement, pattern, story, breath, artistic practice, creativity, personal narrative, storytelling, ritual, journalling, music, self expression, and cultural practice, people can access pathways of healing that are intuitive, accessible, and culturally grounded.
Toi Tūhāhā is designed for clinicians, facilitators, educators, artists, youth workers, community practitioners, and individuals seeking tools that honor spirituality, culture, and wellbeing.
It is not a clinical replacement — it is a cultural companion. A kete of practices that strengthen identity, reconnect people to their ancestors, integrate the power of ritual, facilitate productive creative self expression, and support emotional, spiritual, and somatic healing.
Chapters
Introduction to Toi Tūhāhā
Ngā Rangi Tūhāhā — The 12 Realms
The Toi Tūhāhā Framework
The Science of Creative Cultural Therapy
Core Principles of Toi Tūhāhā
Acrylic Painting & Colour Healing
Toi Māori Modalities
Individual Practices & Exercises
Group Waananga & Collective Practice
Clinical Applications — Anxiety, Depression, PTSD & Addiction
Identity, Whakapapa & Cultural Reconnection
Somatic Healing & Body-Based Practice
Advanced Facilitation & Cultural Safety
Realm Integration & Holistic Practice
MY NEW COMPREHENSIVE ‘TOI TŪHĀHĀ MĀORI CREATIVE CULTURAL THERAPY MANUAL’ IS COMING SOON!
PUBLISHED BY:
Upcoming community workshops at Toi Wāhine 2015 HQ, 10 Hartham Place, Porirua
The exhibition Toi Wāhine 2015 that I am a part of alongside Xoe Hall, Sian Montgomery-Neutze, Miriama Grace-Smith, Pikihuia Haenga-Carkeek, Keri-mei Zagrobelna and Rangimarie Sophie Jolley, is on now until 22nd December 2015. So far it has been an amazing journey and I have been relishing every minute of the synergy and collaborative energy that comes from working in a group of like minded people.
We have several community events and workshops coming up soon. Here are two of them - mural painting workshop on Saturday 12th December and customised footwear workshop on Sunday 20th December.
I hope you can make it along to have some fun and share some time with our group of artists!
Mauriora,
Taryn
If you're into personal development + lifestyle design + online business (like I am) you might like these links...
"E tipu e rea i ngā rā o tōu ao, tōu ringaringa ki te rākau a te Pākehā, hei oranga mō tō tinana; tōu ngākau ki ngā taonga a ō tūpuna, hei tikitiki mō tō māhunga; tōu wairua ki te atua, nāna nei ngā mea katoa i hanga."
"Grow up o tender one in the days of your world, put your hand to the skills of the Pākehā that you might find sustenance for your body; extend your heart to the treasures of your ancestors as an adornment for your head; commit your spirit to the divine, who is the creator of all things."
Here is a round up of some of my favorite websites, authors, and tools on the internet at the mo, these are the places that I like to visit on the regs, just for fun:
Personal development
Gala Darling (Adorn yourself, adore your life, Wellington writer doing things proper in NYC)
Tara Bliss (Australian author, coach and speaker currently getting into kundalini yoga)
Gabby B (New York style modern guru and author)
Rach Macdonald (Australian life coach)
Wabi Sabi Well (Australian high vibe health, fitness and wellness)
Rebecca Campbell (Spiritual writer, teacher and speaker)
The Daily Love (Personal development)
The business of art + self employment
Marie Forleo (New York style business and lifestyle coach)
B-School (Online business school for entrepreneurs and artists)
The Abundant Artist (Business tips and advice for abundant artists)
The Renegade Collective (Magazine for game changers, thought leaders, rule breakers and style makers)
Leonie Dawson (Australian life and business coach)
The Change-Makers Collective (Online design + business tools and people)
Books
Light is the new black (Spirituality)
High (Self development)
Growing into Grace (Self development)
Design
Sian Richardson (Kiwi girl doing design and online business proper)
E-Books
Rebels with a cause (A playbook for doing what you damn well please)
Spirited (Self development and spirituality)
Charles Royal (Māori artist, academic and thought leader)
Travel Related
Hubud (Business + creativity hub based in Ubud, Bali)
I hope you find something useful and interesting in there!
Arohanui,
Taryn