10. Q&A, community and contact

Here is a collection of insights from training, wānanga and practice - including reflections, photographs and other kōrero - helping The Papatūānuku Paradigm grow as a body of knowledge and practice. Here, we’ll create a shared record of learning across the community as it continues to be explored and applied.

You’re invited to contribute. If you have any questions, reflections, feedback, photographs or other kōrero you would like to share, please send it to Admin@CEWH.org. With your permission, we’d love to share it here.

Dr Kathie Irwin and CEWH Collective Impact Lead Amanda Kelly worked with kaimahi at Auckland City Mission – Te Tāpui Atawhai on our first Community of Practice.

November 2025

Auckland City Mission – Te Tāpui Atawhai on our first Community of Practice.

November 2025

The Papatuānuku Paradigm under development 

Dr. Kathie Irwin

The Papatuānuku Paradigm under development - the outcomes of the tool

Dr. Kathie Irwin

Filming for a new teaching resource to support The Papatūānuku Paradigm.


Filming took place at The Hori gallery in Ōtaki, where Kathie spent the day working alongside talented artists Hohepa Thompson and Isaac Te Reina. Find out more here.

March 2026

Charlotte Gibson (Ngāti Oneone) and CEWH Kaihautū Dr Kathie Irwin (Ngāti Porou, Rakaipaaka, Ngāti Kahungunu)

August 2026

The draft Gender Analysis Tool from a Te Ao Māori Lens submitted to the Coalition to End Women's Homelessness for testing by Kathie. Find out more here.

June 2025

Kathie’s work designing and building The Mana Wāhine Foundation using The Papatūānuku Paradigm as a design template. Find out more here.

July 2026

Kathie’s holiday reading stack for an Island holiday and a little 'eat, pray, self-love'.

June 2026

AI, 'Ancestral Intelligence'.

Nice work by Tania Waikato.

The CEWH Te Tira Whakahaere alongside the CEWH team.

Top row (left to right): Helen Robinson, Amanda Kelly, Jill Hawkey, and Jo Cribb. Bottom row (left to right): Caroline Herewini, Victoria Crockford, and Kathie Irwin.

September 2025

The Papatūānuku Paradigm illustration by League of Live Illustrators.

March 2026

As Kathie was driving home after a morning spent with AUT Architecture students, and chatting through The Papatūānuku Paradigm, she was thinking about the day:

“I drove through the most beautiful rainbow! He taonga tuku iho, he tohu aroha.”

October 2026

Comments from training, workshops and webinars

Contact us

We are here to walk this path with you. If you have questions or need support, please get in touch with the Coalition to End Women’s Homelessness at Admin@CEWH.org

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