Whenua
It is a place where you belong a connection to the land, a source of life and wellbeing for everyone. We are linked physically and spiritually to the land.
You can also think about whenua as your place of belonging, means the spaces where you feel comfortable, safe and able to be yourself. It could be your friends, at home with whānau, as part of a sports team or even at your place of study or work.
Taha Hinengaro
Taha Hinengaro is your mental and emotional wellbeing. Like your physical health, your taha hinengaro needs to be taken care of. Mental and emotional wellbeing is your mind, heart, conscience, feelings and thoughts. It’s about how you feel, as well as how you communicate and think.
Taha Tinana
Taha tinana is your physical wellbeing. It’s about how your body, health, feels, moves, grows and how you take care of it. Taha tinana is just one dimension of health and wellbeing and cannot be separated from others.
Taha Whānau
Taha Whānau is your social wellbeing. It is about who makes you feel you belong, who you care about and who you share you life with. It is your friends, community, and the people you care about. You have a unique role to fulfil within your whānau and your whānau contributes to your wellbeing and identity.
Taha Wairua
Taha wairua is your spiritual wellbeing. It explores your relationship with the environment, people and heritage in the past, present and future. The way taha wairua is seen can be very different. For some people, it is religious and faith in god. Some others may describe as your identity, values and beliefs. There is no right or wrong way to think about spiritual wellbeing but is one important dimension of our wellbeing.
