Whakawhanaungatanga hui-ā-tinana

Date:

01 April 2026 - 01 April 2026

Time:

1.30pm - 3.00pm

“Ride the Therapeutic Lightening: Therapy Meets Heavy Metal Music & Culture”

Date:

08 April 2026 - 08 April 2026

Time:

12.00pm - 1:00pm

In this webinar, explore the positive aspects of heavy metal culture in therapy - combining Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) with heavy metal culture as a creative tool, particularly with young people. This approach helps add creativity and connection, making therapy fun, and breaking down barriers to engagement. A music genre that has some stigma attached to it, learn how heavy metal music can be used by practitioners to support clients as they investigate meaning of lyrics and music and create new understandings of their lives.

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Date:

16 April 2026 - 16 April 2026

Time:

12.00pm - 1:00pm

TALANOA TAI LEARNING: Pasifika centred practice and professional development

Date:

22 April 2026 - 22 April 2026

Time:

12.00pm - 1:00pm

Talanoa Tai Learning is a wave of learning that transforms doing into being, through talanoa, consciousness and cultural connection. For social workers, Talanoa Tai invites practitioners to slow down, to listen beyond words, and to engage with individuals, families, and communities through presence rather than process alone. In a profession often shaped by systems, assessments, and outcomes, Talanoa Tai Learning creates space for conscious relationship-building, cultural humility, and shared meaning-making. It supports social workers to honour lived experience, navigate complexity with care, and practise in ways that are ethical, reflective, and transformative—not only for those they walk alongside, but for themselves as practitioners.

World Social Work Day 17th March 2026

Co-building Hope and  Harmony – A Harambee Call to Unite a Divided Society is the theme for this year’s World Social Work Day. Read the 2026 World Social Work Day messages from ANZASW Perehitana, Sharyn Roberts and ANZASW Pou Whakahaere, Nathan Chong-Nee

ANZASW responds to the Experiences of Care in Aotearoa 2024/2025 Report

The Transformative Journeys of Social Work Practitioners: A Study on Personal Impact and Challenges in Professional Practice in Aotearoa, New Zealand

Participation Criteria: Mid-career social workers with 5 years and above of professional experience. Must hold a recognized social work qualification. Currently practicing in New Zealand.

Toitū te Tiriti: Addressing the barriers for tauiwi social work practitioners developing successful allyship with Māori in wellbeing services

Participation Criteria: Registered Social Worker in Aotearoa New Zealand employed in a wellbeing service (social, health, community, private, iwi etc).