Learn how to begin exploring your whakapapa.
Want to explore your whakapapa but don’t know where to begin?
Kura Tātai helps you build confidence researching, recording, and reconnecting with your whakapapa and ancestral stories.
“Deeply passionate about whakapapa… you can’t go wrong.”
A Practical And Grounded Learning Experience
Kura Tātai is a one-day immersive wānanga designed for anyone wanting to explore, record, and preserve their whakapapa.
Whether you are beginning your journey or already researching your whānau history, this workshop provides practical tools, guidance, and real-world strategies to help you navigate archives, kōrero tuku iho, oral histories, and historical records with confidence.
You do not need prior experience in whakapapa research to participate.
What Participants Gain
Participants leave with:
practical tools to begin or strengthen whakapapa research
greater confidence engaging with kaumātua and whānau kōrero
strategies for accessing and interpreting historical records
practical systems for organising and preserving information
deeper understanding of identity, whakapapa, and connection
confidence to continue their research journey beyond the wānanga
Suitable For
Kura Tātai is suitable for:
individuals and whānau beginning whakapapa research
experienced researchers wanting to deepen their approach
iwi, hapū, and marae communities
educators and historians
rangatahi wanting to reconnect with identity and heritage
anyone interested in preserving kōrero tuku iho for future generations
Why Kura Tātai Matters
Whakapapa is more than names and dates — it is connection, identity, memory, belonging, and intergenerational knowledge.
Kura Tātai helps participants move beyond uncertainty by creating a supportive and practical space to explore the stories, people, and histories that shape who we are and where we come from.
This is not about perfection.
It is about reconnecting, preserving knowledge, and strengthening identity for future generations.
Learn From Practical Experience
Learn alongside Dr Jeremy Tātere MacLeod as he shares practical techniques, tools, and insights to support your whakapapa journey through:
engaging with kaumātua and oral histories
accessing archival and historical records
structuring and organising whakapapa
preserving and protecting information
understanding whakapapa within te ao Māori
“Jeremy shares practical tools and profound whakapapa knowledge in a way that feels accessible and achievable.”
“Jeremy’s ability to unlock whakapapa is amazing. He unlocked many unanswered questions.”
“His ability to cross reference, jump between online sources, navigate repositories is next level!”
Upcoming Workshops
We have a number of Kura Tātai workshops coming up across different regions of Aotearoa in 2026.
Heretaunga - 9 July 2026, Kauwaka, Hastings
By registering your interest, you are confirming your place at a fee of $490.00 (incl. GST). Please note that this fee is non-refundable. See our Refunds and Cancellations Policy for more information.
Investment in your growth
Kura Tātai supports participants to deepen their understanding of whakapapa, reconnect with identity, and preserve ancestral knowledge for future generations.
Ready to continue your journey?
Interested in co-hosting a Kura Tātai workshop or one of our other workshops in your rohe or hapori?
Email us at info@kauwaka.co.nz — we’d love to hear from you!
“Deeply passionate about whakapapa Jeremy is the ultimate resource. He’s familiar with the online resources available, which are presented in the workshop & shares his own profound knowledge & experience, so you can’t go wrong.”
— CARLA CARLSON, KURA TĀTAI ATTENDEE
