In person Workshop

Name: In person Workshop
Brand: Wai Ako Ltd
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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.

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David Rameka, Iwi Relationships and Co Governance Manager, Te Kaunihera ā Rohe o Taupō

Roimata recently facilitated 2 workshops for Te Kaunihera ā Rohe o Taupō – Taupō District Council. She facilitated the workshops in an engaging and interactive manner that helped attendees feel at ease and build their understanding of the promises entailed in Te Tiriti. Her expertise in this space really came to the fore. Lots of positive feedback from attendees. Definitely recommend.

Nicola Jepsen, Senior Lecturer Physiotherapy AUT

Roimata came and presented to our first year physiotherapy students. Even with a large group, the session was engaging and interactive. The students and staff all got a lot out of it – many students reflected that while they had learnt a bit about Te Tiriti o Waitangi at school, this was the first time they really understood its significance.

Shelley McMeeken, Chief Executive, Halberg Foundation

Thanks so much for your energy, enthusiasm and advice in presenting at our Hui recently. You reminded us how important it is for organisations to undertake this type of training. I congratulate you on making a challenging topic so interesting and relevant to our group – it was greatly appreciated

Kereyn Smith, Chief Executive Officer and Secretary General, New Zealand Olympic Committee

It seemed everyone learnt so much. The feedback has been very positive and people expressing a range of emotions in regards how they felt. They were very complimentary about the session and your style.

Janet Pinchen, Principal, Glamorgan School

Our teachers found the workshop engaging, accessible and informative. Completing this workshop together has been a positive experience for our school.

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Very engaging and informative

Pai rawa atu t?nei w?nanga.

Great Wananga today, informative and interactive.

Awesome mahi roimata, was so informative and such an interactive way to learn about te tiriti. Ng? Mihi Wahine Ma x

Roimata is exceptional at delivering information in a way that is easy to understand, informative and engaging.

Absolutely amazing. Great mahi e hoa. I will encourage everyone to have a go and build your knowledge of Te Tiriti. You have nothing to lose.

Very informative absolutely enjoyed every moment.

Awesome wananga, great activity workshops, learnings - interactive TKP

Thought provoking and very challenging. Both times I have learnt to think from a different perspective. Roimata is very quietly spoken and non judgmental but her presence is awesome. If you ever get the chance to hear her take with open arms and an open mind.

Tumeke class

As always, thoroughly enjoy and love Roimatas energy. Kia ora Roimata

This was an amazing delivery of Te Tiriti O Waitangi. I would love everyone to experience this workshop

Fantastic! A must for all New Zealanders

Interactive, eye-opening, and challenging in the most positive of ways! Roimata led us gently yet firmly, diplomatically yet with justice, in understanding and empathising with the M?ori experience. Highly recommend for corporate groups wanting to start their journey!

Such an incredible experience. Truly educational and moving.

Very hands on, informative and inspiring workshop. Even as someone with Te Tiriti knowledge, I still learned a few new things and came away equipped with further motivation to continue this journey in honouring Te Tiriti.

A gentle and inspiring intro into the essential foundation issues of Aotearoa and how we got to where we are now. A really good workshop to open up conversations and action. Mihiro pai t? mahi Roimata!

Love the interactive way it was delivered.

It was engaging, delivered well, with time given to process information. Music at key points helps the Wairua think of things, envisage what it would have been like in that time.

Workshop delivered from a creative perspective to help us understand rather than just be talked to.

Great education session, very valuable knowledge.

This was a wonderful w?nanga - informative and interactive.

Keep doing what you're doing... educate NZ

Roimata is a blessing for our people that she is able to walk in the pakeha world but be totally Maori orientated and focused on us and stands true to the Tiriti kaupapa.

My 7 year old tama goes to Kura Kaupapa Māori (Aho Matua). He is teaching himself to read in his second language, english. While a lot of the information is not new to him, watching him reading this pukapuka "Understanding Te Tiriti" gives me so much joy!

This workshop was really insightful, and I feel very privileged to have had the opportunity to meet Roimata and attend her workshop. As an immigrant in this country, it was a great opportunity to learn about the history of Aotearoa and has helped expand my understanding of the recent Treaty claims.