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Patricia Grace, 'Anger, guilt and fear' with facilitator Vanessa Elderidge.

Toni Taylor from Strathmore Park Community Centre Trust

Kia ora Koutou,

Under the guidance of Facilitator, Vanessa Elderidge from Mary Potter Hospice, the theme for tomorrows ‘Healing through Storytelling’ will now be ‘Anger, guilt and fear’.

These sessions are for everyone.
Wednesday 20th March 2019, 9.30am – 11.3am.
Morning tea provided.
108 Strathmore Ave, Strathmore, Wellington

We welcome Patricia Grace as our 4th Guest speaker.
“Patricia Grace is a major New Zealand novelist, short story writer and children’s writer. She is of Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa and Te Ati Awa descent, and is affiliated to Ngati Porou by marriage. Grace began writing early, whilst teaching and raising her family of seven children. Shehas since won many national and international awards, including the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for fiction, the Deutz Medal for Fiction, and the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (widely considered the most prestigious literary prize after the Nobel). A deeply subtle, moving and subversive writer, Grace received in 2007 a Distinguished Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to literature.”

Short bio of Vanessa Elderidge:
“I have a commitment to Maori health and wellbeing.
I have a background in nursing and utilise that knowledge in my work in palliative care.
I'm also a Director of Four Tides Indigenous Healers and value traditional Maori medicine and healing modalities.
I'm an educator, facilitator and qualified bi-cultural supervisor.
I'm of and Ngati Kahungunu and Rongomaiwahine descent.I have a specific interest in empowering communities to manage grief and bereavement.”

Our last session for the series will be Wednesday 27th March, 9.30am – 11.3am.

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