Hikitia! invites storytellers and artists to join the next phase of Ordinary Wonders in 2026. Amateur and established artists, will be paired with “ordinary wonders” stories written by community members. Artworks will be exhibited at Refinery ArtSpace and gifted back to storytellers.

Jared* started sharing he was “going through a bit of s#$t”, and suddenly his mates also began opening up.

RISE is offering new peer support programmes for those who have experienced sexual harm.

Nelson men are invited to a special free event mark featuring workshops, networking and talks on topics concerning men.

Evaluations from RISE participants in 2024 -2025 show after working with RISE, people feel and are safer, acquire practical self-regulation tools, strengthen relationships, and develop the insight needed to disrupt intergenerational violence.

RISE is developing and deepening its cultural confidence as a Tangata Tiriti organisation. We are working with Thirdspace Aotearoa for a second year to uphold the mana of te ao Māori in our mahi and apply Te Tiriti-led practice.

RISE recently attended the launch of two new important initiatives designed to prevent harm online.

Miranda Warner is using her wide skills and contacts in her work as a community mobiliser with Hikitia!. Hikitia! is RISE’s ACC funded prevention mahi. She will continue as a facilitator on RISE’s non-violence group programme.

Sessions at RISE were like a refreshing jug of water. The jug was running out of water and then RISE came along and filled the jug up. I need refresher courses, so it was a good pick up, the tools I learnt made sense. 

RISE has officially partnered with leading Australian workplace trainer Be There Group.

The mahi (work) is underway at Hikitia! with the five new roles created at RISE through a new ACC contract now filled.

Attending RISE was one of the best things I’ve ever done. It’s made me a much better person, and a way better father. Every bloke I know, I tell them to go – do the course.

For RISE clinician Marissa working in the Family Violence sphere and working at RISE is professionally where she wants to be.

If Koreana was to tell people about the benefits of RISE he would tell them to come to the course for their aiga (whānau).

“Do it for your family.”

Serving the Motueka community feels like a homecoming for RISE Clinician Michelle Thurlow who first came to Motueka as a 16-year-old disengaged with school.

Nelson men are invited to a special free event mark featuring workshops, networking and talks on topics concerning men.

The third International Men’s Day is being held at Victory Community Centre on November 16. The theme of this year’s day is Show Yourself.

RISE has a significant new contract to work with the community to prevent family violence. RISE is one of five organisations chosen nationally to take part in an innovative new ACC-funded scheme that focusses on addressing the root causes of family violence.

“I don’t want to be that person. I don’t want my grandchildren to see an angry violent person.”

One of RISE’s strengths is that it can work with a whole family – parents and children - to support safer homes and foster intergenerational change.

RISE Clinicians are adept at understanding what a family needs and realise that for change to happen sometimes the whole family unit might need help and support.

Pete’s wife gave him an ultimatum. If he didn’t do something about his anger she would leave. Attending a men’s non-violence group at RISE saved his marriage and changed his life.