Kura Tātai
Researching Your Whakapapa
Kura Tātai is a one-day immersive wānanga for those ready to explore, record, and preserve their whakapapa. Whether starting out or deepening your knowledge, this workshop offers practical tools to uncover your ancestral stories and strengthen your identity.
What is Kura Tātai?
This wānanga is designed to give you the confidence and skills to research, organise, and protect your whakapapa. Guided by experienced facilitators, you’ll learn how to approach kaumātua, access archives, interpret records, and shape your kōrero tuku iho for future generations.
Ngā Āhuatanga Ako
Learn from Dr. Jeremy Tātere MacLeod, a kaikōrero and expert in Māori language and whakapapa. He shares practical techniques and insights to support your research journey, and provide you with skills to:
Engage with kaumātua: build meaningful kōrero and connections.
Access historical records: learn how to find and interpret key sources.
Structure your whakapapa: using both oral and archival information.
Practical strategies: for storing, sharing and preserving your findings.
Cultural depth: strengthen your connection to identity and heritage.
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
Te Wairau - 13 July 2026, Ukaipo Rangitane Cultural Centre, Blenheim
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
Get ready to deepen your understanding of whakapapa and reclaim the stories that shape who you are. Register below to reserve your space!
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
