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Cultural Supervision
Kihirua Ltd provide cultural supervision as a mechanism to ensure culturally safe practice. Cultural supervision is provided utilising kaupapa Māori concepts, values, models and tikanga to support practicitioners to provide culturally responsive practice, meet their core cultural competencies and adhere to Te Tiriti o Waitangi principles.
Training, education
workshops & seminars
Develop your core cultural competencies through strengthening your knowledge and understanding of kaupapa, mātauranga me tikanga Māori to enhance to outcomes for your clients and organisation. We provide regular seminars and workshops in the community or can design and tailor specifically to your organisation.
Consultation
Kihirua Ltd utilises Māori cultural concepts, values and paradigms to support organisations to explore success, develop staff and organisational procedures that can embed effective and harmonious change.
Welcome to Kihirua Ltd
Kihirua means ‘to change mind’. Our focus is to provide a range of support that will help you understand and apply a bicultural perspective to your practice, approach and organisation.
We specialise in the use of Kaupapa, mātauranga and tikanga Māori as a medium for encouraging and supporting practitioners ‘to change mind’ and engage a bicultural perspective of all aspects of their mahi.
Our work is underpinned by the princples of pono, tika and aroha and guided in all apsects by the values of manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and āhurutanga and the twin pillars of kaitiakitanga and rangatiratanga.
"Our focus is to provide a range of support that will help you understand and apply a bicultural perspective to your practice, approach and organisation"
Jason Northover
Ko Hikurangi rāua ko Kahuranaki ōna Maunga, Ko Waiapu rāua ko Poukawa ōna Waiū, Ko Horouta rāua ko Takitimu ōna waka, Ko Hau rāua ko Kahuranaki ōna Whare Tīpuna, Ko Te-Whānau-a-Rakairoa rāua ko Ngāi Te Rangikoianake ōna Hapū, Ko Ngāti Porou rāua ko Ngāti Kahungunu ōna Iwi.
Jason Northover works as a Kaupapa Māori Clinical Educator within the School of Psychology Speech and Hearing at The University of Canterbury and as both a Senior Advisor Rehabilitation Programes and Senior Advisor Kaupapa Māori Supervision within the Department of Corrections.
He has a background as a programme facilitator running group therapy for offenders to address their criminogenic needs and has extensive experience working with youth within the Department of Corrections, the former Child Youth and Family and the YMCA. He is the Managing Director of Kihirua Ltd providing cultural support, education programmes and workshops and cultural supervision.
Join us for our very first Workshop
Positionality – Relating to Te Ao Māori
Nau mai, Haere mai, Tauti mai. In our professional environments there is an increasing need to be more culturally aware and safely engage with Te Ao Māori.
This workshop is for anyone with a desire to explore who they are in relation to Te Ao Māori, including their professional and personal identities.
You will be supported to interact, reflect, and grow through a Te Ao Māori lens during this experiential workshop.
The “Positionality – Relating to Te Ao Māori Workshop” held on Monday 20th May has been endorsed by The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners (RNZCGP) and has been approved for up to 5 CME credits for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) purposes. Credits are uploaded on behalf of RNZCGP Fellows.
I am a senior clinical psychologist, with many years’ experience in multiple domains of clinical psychology.
As a result of learning from Jason the underlying functions or purposes of bicultural practices, I have found a more effective way to work with peoples of all cultures different from myself.
Jason’s cultural supervision or cultural advice would benefit the practice of anyone working directly with people of differing cultures.
Dr Fran Vertue
PhD Otago School of Medicine
PG Dip Clin Psyc Canterbury
FNZCCP
Clinical Psychologist
Christchurch Psychology
Meeting Jason and listening to him and his rich understanding of New Zealand cultural history and Te Ao Māori made me realise that I have so much more to learn!
Jason was able to help me think about communicating key therapy ideas with the use of pūrākau. He gave me practical tips and suggestions for making my space and therapy sessions more welcoming.
Listening to what Jason had to say has also made me think more about my work with people from other cultural minorities in Aotearoa.
Dr Brigette Gorman
PhD, PG DipClPs, MNZCCP
Clinical Psychologist
The Psychology Hub
Jase is an engaging and knowledgeable speaker and passionate about sharing mātauranga Māori.
His cultural supervision and university teaching are greatly valued by staff and students. Jase is skilled in facilitating new perspectives through self-reflection.
We have found Jase’s input invaluable in our continuing development of our bi-cultural competence and are looking forward to his ongoing contributions.