Te Ara Haumako
Te Reo Māori for Primary Industries, Rural Leadership and Land-Based Professions
Whakamāhuki | Overview
Grow confident, culturally grounded reo Māori capability—at work, during work hours.
Te Ara Haumako is a focused reo Māori and cultural capability course for people working across primary industries and land-based sectors. The programme develops pronunciation, introductions, pepeha, foundational sentence patterns and practical workplace reo while exploring whenua, whakapapa, mana whenua, kaitiakitanga, Māori values and respectful engagement. Learners apply the content to rural meetings, advisory relationships, field visits, governance and community contexts.
Designed for
Primary industry professionals, rural advisers, farm managers, agribusiness leaders, consultants, board members and people working alongside Māori landowners, trusts and communities.
Delivery Mode:
Live online: one 90-minute class each week
Course Dates:
Week commencing Monday 24 August 2026
Course Fee:
$500 per person
Duration:
5 weeks
Hāngaitanga
Why This Course Matters in 2026
Land-based work in Aotearoa is inseparable from histories, relationships and different understandings of whenua. Professionals may engage with M?ori land trusts, wh?nau, iwi organisations and communities while having limited preparation in language, tikanga or cultural positioning. Te Ara Haumako supports stronger relationships and more informed participation without presenting learners as cultural experts.
Kupu Ārahi | Guiding Expression
"Ka whāngaia, ka tipu, ka puāwai"
"That which is nurtured will grow, then blossom"
Land-based work in Aotearoa is inseparable from histories, relationships and different understandings of whenua. Professionals may engage with M?ori land trusts, wh?nau, iwi organisations and communities while having limited preparation in language, tikanga or cultural positioning. Te Ara Haumako supports stronger relationships and more informed participation without presenting learners as cultural experts.
Ngā Hua Nui
What this course covers
Whāinga Paetae | Course Objectives
Across the programme, participants will:
Build foundational pronunciation and practical reo M?ori relevant to primary industries, whenua and workplace relationships.
Understand whakapapa and the interconnected relationships between people, whenua, wai, taiao and productive systems.
Explore kaitiakitanga as responsibility, stewardship and intergenerational care rather than environmental language alone.
Apply manaakitanga and whanaungatanga when working with wh?nau, landowners, iwi, hap?, communities and industry partners.
Engage with maramataka and M?ori environmental indicators as frameworks for timing, observation and wellbeing.
Explore M?ori concepts connected to resource use, reciprocity, sustainability and collective benefit.
Use appropriate mihi, karakia, acknowledgements and workplace language in meetings, visits and field-based contexts.
Understand the importance of local histories, place names, iwi narratives and culturally informed environmental knowledge.
Recognise when iwi or mana whenua engagement, permission, attribution or specialist knowledge is required.
Develop practical ways to strengthen culturally grounded decision-making, partnerships and workplace practice.
Putanga Ako | Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants should be able to:
Pronounce common M?ori words, names and place names accurately.
Introduce themselves, their role and relevant connections in te reo M?ori.
Prepare and deliver an authentic pepeha or place-based introduction.
Use simple location, description and action sentence patterns.
Explain foundational concepts of mana whenua, whakapapa and kaitiakitanga.
Participate more confidently in hui and M?ori cultural contexts.
Identify practical ways to strengthen relationships and reo use in primary-industry settings.
He Aha Kei Roto
What Is Included
Live facilitated learning with experienced Poutawa kaiako.
Access to course slides, recordings and structured revision resources.
A practical learner workbook with explanations, examples and reflection activities.
Pronunciation audio, vocabulary support and language-modelling resources where relevant.
Templates, sentence frames and practical tools that can be used immediately.
Short between-session activities designed to move learning into everyday practice.
A supportive learning r?p? where questions, practice and mistakes are welcomed.
A certificate of participation following completion of the programme requirements.
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Te Wā Tuku
Course Dates
Courses commence during the week of Monday 24 August 2026. The indicative final teaching week is the week of 19 October 2026.
Class Option 1:
Tuesday: 3.30pm - 5.00pm
CLass Option 2
Wednesday: 5.30pm - 7.00pm
Participants enrol in one stream. Where space permits, learners may attend the alternative stream when they cannot attend their usual class.