Strengthening Communities Through Fatherhood
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We have many events throughout the year specifically planned to equip you and your teams with the best skills to serve your community.
we know it’s tough.
We are an independent charitable organisation dedicated to helping men become great fathers and husbands. We specialise in supporting men to manage anger, enhance physical fitness and wellbeing, and develop strong parenting skills and healthy relationships.
The Father’s Course
Te Ara Poutama o te Matua Mārama — The Pathway of the Visionary Father
The Fathers For Families programme is a 14-week transformational journey for fathers who are ready to take responsibility, rebuild trust, and create a safer future for their whanau.
Following the 14-week programme, graduates are invited to continue their growth through a weekly peer support group, creating an ongoing space for fathers to stay connected, share honestly, and remain accountable to the change they have committed to.
Built for men who are serious about change, the programme blends cultural wisdom, faith-based principles, trauma-informed practice, and practical tools to support fathers in healing, restoring relationships, and rebuilding their role within the family.
Fathers For Families is delivered by facilitators and mentors with lived experience — men who understand the reality of conviction, violence, disconnection, loss, and the hard road of restoration.
Their role is to walk alongside fathers as they turn pain into purpose, accountability into growth, and leadership into legacy.
Week 1 - 5 | For The MAN - Restoring the Foundation
This first section focuses on rebuilding the man before rebuilding the family.
Fathers are supported to reflect honestly on their personal story, early experiences, trauma, learned behaviours, and the patterns that have shaped how they think, respond, and relate to others.
From a trauma-informed lens, this section helps men recognise triggers, shame cycles, emotional survival responses, and the impact of the SCI Mindset — Survival, Caged, and Insecure thinking.
From a faith-based lens, fathers are called toward accountability, repentance, humility, and the courage to change. This is where a man begins to shift from reacting out of hurt to responding with purpose.
By the end of this stage, fathers begin to understand that real change does not begin with circumstance —
it begins in the heart.
Week 6 - 8 | For The HUSBAND - relearning relationship
This section focuses on the father’s role within intimate relationships.
Fathers are invited to examine how power, control, communication, silence, emotional wounds, and past trauma may have impacted their partner and the relationship.
Through a psychological and relational lens, this stage explores attachment, empathy, emotional safety, communication, repair, and the importance of recognising harm. Men are supported to understand not only what happened, but how their behaviour affected the person closest to them.
Through a biblical lens, this section draws on covenant love, patience, humility, self-control, and servant leadership.
Fathers learn that true authority in a relationship is not control — it is care. It is the ability to listen, take responsibility, repair harm, and lead through love rather than domination.
Week 9 - 13 | For The FATHER - building legacy
This section turns the focus toward fatherhood, restoration, and the future.
Fathers are supported to understand the influence they have on their children through presence, consistency, emotional safety, guidance, and the modelling of changed behaviour.
From a trauma-informed and child-development lens, this phase helps men understand how their emotional responses, communication, and actions shape a child’s sense of safety, identity, and belonging.
From a biblical lens, fatherhood is framed as stewardship — the responsibility to raise children with love, discipline, truth, protection, and grace.
This is where a father begins to move from being a source of fear to becoming a source of peace. His story becomes his testimony, and his healing becomes part of the inheritance he passes on to his children.
Week 14 | MY JOURNEY - standing in the light
The final week is both a reflection and a milestone.
It brings together every part of the journey — the man, the husband/partner, and the father — allowing each participant to see how far he has come and what still needs to be strengthened.
Psychologically, this week is about integration. Fathers are supported to recognise their growth, acknowledge the courage it took to confront themselves, and understand how awareness must now become daily practice.
Spiritually, this week reflects redemption, restoration, and grace. It is a moment where guilt is no longer the final word, and failure no longer defines the man.
By the end of the programme, each father is invited to stand with honesty, humility, and hope — carrying a testimony of transformation.
From brokenness to wholeness.
From silence to strength.
From harm to healing.
From pain to purpose.
His journey becomes a light for others to follow.
NGA POU E WHA - OUR FOUR PILLARS
OUR VALUES
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SEEKING A HIGHER LEVEL OF THINKING & LEARNING
ACCURATE REPRESENTATION
REFLECTING THE HEART OF FFF IN ALL WE DO
CREATIVITY
COURAGE TO SEE & RESPOND DIFFERENTLY
COLLABORATION
ONE CALL, ONE HEART, ONE PURPOSE
CAUTION
This course is NOT easy, we address the UGLY!
“I'm answering the calls of broken men': Group helps tough guys become loving dads”
OUR VISION
RESTORING MANA BUILDING LEGACY
It doesn’t matter HOW you start,
As long as you start now
The Father’s Course
FREE
Our foundational 14-week course gives you the tools to heal from the past and create a plan for your family's future.
Graduate Programmes
FREE
Ongoing support is a critical part of your transformation.
Meet Some Of Our Fathers
TANE
"To be honest, since coming out of jail, its help me to rebuild with my whanau".
MATENI
"I'm in a really positive headspace now and feel I can move forward with life, & not backwards."
PETER
"It opened my eyes to the possibility of being a good role model."
DAMIEN
"The Stickman - showed me there`s always work to be done to self."