Do you want to be part of the solution to improving Māori health outcomes?

Provide your staff with the opportunity to learn how to be Treaty compliant, pro-equity, culturally safe and anti-racist.

 

Do you know the difference between cultural competency and cultural safety? 

Learn how to unpack concepts associated with Māori health and how you can make a difference to address health inequities. 

 

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Do you want to be part of the solution to improving Māori health outcomes?

Learn key concepts that you can apply to your own role to help you be Treaty compliant, pro-equity, culturally safe and anti-racist.

Do you know the difference between cultural competency and cultural safety? 

Learn how to unpack concepts associated with Māori health and how you can make a difference to address health inequities. 

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Your staff can contribute to Addressing Māori health inequities 

Support your staff to learn about Māori health and use it to: 

  • Explore their understandings of traditional and contemporary Māori society.
  • Describe the ‘why’ and ‘what’ of the Treaty of Waitangi.
  • Unpack the process of colonisation and how this impacts Māori health outcomes.
  • Explore equity from a ‘needs’ and ‘rights’ based perspective.
  • Unpack cultural competency versus cultural safety.
  • Define racism and what  it means to be anti-racist.

Yes, your staff can be part of the solution!

During your organisation's workshop with Elana, your staff will learn how they can contribute to addressing Māori health inequities.

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An in-person workshop with Elana … 

Allows her to weave in her experience with providing Māori public health expertise across the health sector using real examples that your organisation can draw on as you work through the content outlined below.

 

 

 

Elana prefers an interactive workshop style and so she is quite led by the participants and where they are at, whilst ensuring the workshop is a safe (and fun) learning environment.

INTRODUCING

In-Person Workshops with Dr Elana

Are You Ready To Learn About Māori Health? 

Elana's in-person workshop will introduce your organisation to basic concepts that are required to understand Māori health. Elana can support attendees to:

  • Situate themselves within a pepeha framework.
  • Briefly describe traditional Māori society, Treaty of Waitangi, colonisation, Māori population today and current Māori health status.
  • Deconstruct common myths about Māori society/health.

  • Identify mechanisms to intervene positively for Māori health by understanding the ‘cause behind the cause’ of Māori health inequities

    – Treaty/rights arguments

    – Equity/needs arguments (and where Pacific fits in)

    – Cultural competency versus Cultural Safety

    – Anti-racism approaches

  • Reimagining themselves as a change-agent for Equity, Te Tiriti, Cultural Safety and Antiracism.

With some basic knowledge your staff can begin their journey to help improve Māori health outcomes.

Yes, your workshop CAN be customised!

Would you like an in-person workshop on related but different content for your staff?

Discuss with Elana the content you are hoping to include and she will work with you to see what’s possible.

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This Workshop Is For Your Organistaion If...

  • You are involved in health in Aotearoa New Zealand
  • Your staff need support to unpack core concepts associated with Māori health
  • You need to provide cultural safety, cultural competency. Māori health, equity and racism training
  • You want to be part of the solution for Māori health
YES, I WANT IN!
KIA ORA

Dr Elana Curtis

Has provided workshops to the following organisations:

 

  • Counties Manukau DHB Leadership programme (now Te Whatu Ora) (multiple)
  • Francis Health Leadership programmes (multiple)
  • Womens Health team and maternity services, Counties Manukau District (multiple)
  • New Zealand College of Public Health Medicine (registrar orientation)
  • Mātauranga Māori and Population and Public Health staff within Te Aka Whai Ora (multiple)
  • Māori Health, Counties Manukau DHB
  • Māori Regional Coordination Hub, NRHCC
  • Plastics Department, Counties Manukau DHB
  • Dental Council of New Zealand
  • Pharmacy Council of New Zealand
  • Medical Council of New Zealand, all staff (multiple)
  • Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)
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KIA ORA

I'm Dr Elana Curtis

Ko Matawhaura te maunga kohatu

Ko Te Rotoiti-i-kite-ā-Ihenga te moana

Ko Ngāti Rongomai rāua ko Ngāti Pikiao ōku hapū

He uri tēnei o Te Arawa

Tihei Mauriora!

I was 10 years old when I decided I wanted to become a Māori doctor. Since then, I've  specialised in Public Health Medicine and had an extensive academic career as an Associate Professor teaching, researching and advocating for Māori health. I'm now ready to share my knowledge with as many people as possible. I'm very excited to present my first online course that aims to provide health workers with the basics.

Join with me as I help you learn the importance of being culturally-safe, Treaty compliant, pro-Equity and antiracist!

Learn More About Me Here

"We were fortunate enough to have Dr Elana Curtis facilitate a workshop for our team who all work in Māori Health.  It gave us a safe space as a team to unpack issues we experience working in a large mainstream organisation, toward practical solutions.  The session was expertly facilitated by Dr Curtis.  We really appreciated her direct and to the point facilitation style, challenging us to step up, speak up, and to have the hard conversations."

- Delanie Nepia (Service Manager, Te Kāhui Hauora, Māori Health, Counties Manukau District )

"...attended your course on Monday and highly recommended you and your services/Kaupapa in highlighting and addressing Equity." 

- Jill Cotter

"An insightful and empowering workshop"

- Teei Kaiaruna ~ General Manager, Iwi Māori Relationships, Te Aka Whai Ora.

"Elana facilitates a meaningful and engaging workshop on Maori health. She creates a safe environment for learning and discussion, whilst honestly and frankly addressing important and challenging topics. Participants found the recap of Maori history and Te Tiriti useful, and the deconstruction activity was especially valuable. Elana’s workshop concludes with a call to action, and a discussion about practical measures we can take within our organisation. Thanks for this thought provoking session."

- Sophie McDiarmid ~ Educator - People and Professional Development at Te Whatu Ora Counties Manukau

"It's probably one of the best Te Tiriti presentations that I've sat through because it is a difficult topic to deliver. The facilitator, Dr Elana Curtis was incredible."

- Anonymous ~ CMDHB Leadership Programme