In person Workshop

Workshops to build confidence in Te Tiriti

For companies, councils, schools, health providers, and organisations who want Te Tiriti explained in a way that is factual and immediately useful in the real-world.

Led personally by human-rights lawyer and bestselling author Roimata Smail.

The workshop your people will still be talking about weeks later

A clear, factual, and highly engaging 2-hour session designed for groups at every stage of learning.

Together, you'll unpack:

• what Te Tiriti promised
• what happened next
• what that means in practice today
• how it relates to your organisation's real-world work

The result is more than understanding.

Your people leave with shared language, deeper confidence, and a stronger sense of what meaningful action can look like.

• 2-hour in-person workshop
• Up to 50 participants
• Led personally by Roimata Smail
• Recommended 1-hour Reflection + Kōrero add-on: a relaxed, team-led kōrero gently guided by Roimata to help everyone connect the learning to your own mahi.

New online option

For organisations wanting learning people can revisit, or for individuals who want to build confidence in their own time, Te Tiriti Online offers the same trusted teaching approach in 9 short self-paced modules.

Perfect for:

• post-workshop reinforcement
• remote teams
• board members
• new staff onboarding
• school staff PD

Why these Te Tiriti workshops work

Roimata combines two decades of Te Tiriti and human-rights legal work with a rare ability to make seemingly complex issues feel calm, accessible, and actionable.

Participants often say they leave realising they didn't know what they didn't know. What changes is not just knowledge, but the confidence to discuss Te Tiriti thoughtfully across teams, leadership, governance, and real world work.

What organisations are really buying

Some groups come wanting to meet obligations. They leave with something much more valuable:

• clarity on what those obligations actually mean
• language teams can use confidently
• reduced fear of saying the wrong thing
• stronger alignment across staff and leadership
• a sense of shared purpose about what comes next

Many teams say the workshop helps them finally join the dots in a way that makes sense.

About Roimata Smail

Trusted legal expertise, taught with warmth and clarity

Roimata Smail (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui, England, Scotland, Ireland) is a human-rights lawyer and author of the national bestseller Understanding Te Tiriti.

Her workshops have supported companies, schools, councils, health providers, and community organisations across Aotearoa to build genuine confidence with Te Tiriti in action.

Recommended: Reflection + Kōrero add-on

Turn learning into action with Reflection + Kōrero

Add a one-hour facilitated follow-up conversation to help your team process the workshop and begin connecting the learning directly to your own mahi.

No preparation is needed.

Because the workshop naturally sparks questions, this add-on helps convert insight into practical next steps, shared responsibility, and momentum.

Ready to give your team calm confidence with Te Tiriti?

Whether your goal is staff alignment, governance confidence, onboarding, school PD, or organisational clarity, this workshop creates shared understanding that lasts.

Email info@treatytraining.com for more information including pricing.