Hoake Tātou – Walk With Me

Called Hoake Tātou | Walk With Me, the presentations start in Southland in mid-September, and finish in Whangarei in March 2026. In total, 26 events will be held in 17 towns and cities, featuring a panel of presenters at each, including male survivors of sexual abuse.

Supported by the Ministry for Social Development, the presentation series is an opportunity to learn from our experience and strengthen your organisation’s ability to support male survivors.

Hoake Tātou | Walk With Me has been designed to bring service providers and support agencies together, help strengthen understanding of the barriers men face when seeking help, and highlight the benefits of a purposeful peer support and wellbeing approach to support recovery.

The presentation content includes:

• Safe access and effective engagement of male survivors with support services
• Dispelling some of the common myths about male victims of sexual harm
• Navigate the misunderstandings that create barriers to engagement with support services
• Highlight the role of lived experience as an effective engagement model
• Collaboration and partnerships to welcome and embrace cultural and gender diversity within the male survivor community

Supporting complex trauma requires a shared response from a number of different organisations, each with different skills and experience – no one agency or organisation can do it alone.

As more male survivors present with complex trauma, New Zealand will need even more collaborative sector partnerships to provide the wrap-around services necessary for recovery.

Hoake Tātou | Walk With Me is about bringing those different organisations together to hear from those with lived experience, and share information and understandings about working with male survivors of sexual abuse and violence, to help them get the support they need.

We hope you will join us.

Dates & locations

You can view full details of the schedule, locations dates at the bottom of this page.

Arrival tea and coffee will be available for half an hour prior to the presentation start time.

The presentation is expected to run for approximately two hours, with an additional half hour for networking conversations.