Best for
Lesson 10, mentoring, whānau-interview follow-up, or any class where students need to map protective factors across all four pou instead of reducing resilience to “be stronger”.
Health / Hauora • Years 7-10 • Protective-factor mapping
Resilience Weave Map
Use this map to help ākonga see resilience as more than individual grit. The weave includes whakapapa strengths, supportive relationships, routines, cultural anchors, and the people or spaces that help a student stand up again after a wero.
Free resilience scaffold, premium value when context matters
This map already gives a strong public version. The premium workflow becomes useful when you want your actual support structures, a local case study, or differentiated versions for junior, senior, or ESOL learners.
- Generate school-specific or community-specific story versions.
- Localise the outer-weave prompts to your kura supports and local contexts.
- Save a mentor or tutor version to My Kete for repeat conferencing.
Kaiako planning snapshot
- Use length: 25-40 minutes after a resilience story, reflection, or case study.
- Grouping: Individual mapping with optional buddy kōrero or teacher conferencing.
- Prep: Gather one or two local or whakapapa-linked resilience stories first so students have concrete examples.
- Teaching move: Keep resilience collective, cultural, and practical rather than abstract or motivational.
Resources already provided
- Inner-weave whole-whare mapping
- Outer-weave support prompts
- Whakapapa-strength reflection
- Gaps-and-next-step planning
- Support-widening reminder
- Curriculum companion for planning and reporting
This page is more useful than a generic “resilience poster” because it gives structure for the actual supports and practices students can name and strengthen.
Ngā Whāinga Akoranga / Learning Intentions
- We are learning to identify protective factors across Te Whare Tapa Whā.
- We are learning to recognise resilience as cultural, relational, and practical.
- We are learning to strengthen a weak or under-supported pou with a realistic next step.
Paearu Angitu / Success Criteria
- I can map strengths or supports across more than one pou.
- I can identify people, places, or practices that protect my resilience.
- I can name one realistic step for strengthening the pou that needs more tautoko.
Curriculum integration / Te Marautanga alignment
The curriculum companion makes the whole-whare wellbeing, self-management, and identity-strength links explicit so this page supports real Aotearoa health and classroom planning.
Resilience is woven, not possessed
Many students hear resilience described as toughness or “pushing through”. This page deliberately rejects that narrow story. Resilience grows through supports, identity, whenua, routines, relationships, and the confidence to call on them.
1. Inner weave: strengths inside the whare
Taha Tinana
What habits, body cues, physical spaces, or routines help me recover and reset?
Taha Hinengaro
What thoughts, strategies, reflection tools, or calming routines help me steady my mind?
Taha Whānau
Who reminds me I am not carrying life alone? What relationships help me return to balance?
Taha Wairua
What values, practices, beliefs, places, or creative forms strengthen my sense of meaning?
2. Outer weave: collective supports
Whānau, friends, and mentors
School or kura supports
Cultural anchors and practices
Community or professional tautoko
3. Whakapapa strength spark
Story or tauira that inspires me
Name a person from your whānau, hapori, culture, iwi history, or wider community who faced a wero with courage. What did they lean on?
4. Which pou needs strengthening next?
| Pou to strengthen | Why it matters now | One realistic next action | Who will support the action? |
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5. When does the weave need widening?
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Notice the gap A weave is weaker when one pou has almost no people, routines, or anchors listed.
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Add one support with intention This could be a practice, a person, a place, or a school process you have not used yet.
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Review with a trusted adult if needed If the gaps feel large or ongoing, use your support pathway rather than trying to strengthen the whole weave alone.
Ngā Whāinga Akoranga · Learning Intentions
- Identify personal strengths, values, and resources that support resilience
- Recognise community, cultural, and whānau resources as part of resilience
- Understand resilience as something built collectively, not just individually
- Connect personal resilience to Māori concepts of mana and collective strength
Paearu Angitu · Success Criteria
- My resilience map includes personal strengths AND community/whānau resources
- I can identify at least one cultural practice or value that helps me when things are hard
- I can give an example of how whānau or community has been part of my resilience
- I can explain what resilience means to me in my own words
Hononga Marautanga · Curriculum Alignment
Health and Physical Education — Hauora
Level 3–4: Identify and describe the relationship between feelings, thoughts, and actions; develop strategies to maintain and enhance hauora across the four pou of Te Whare Tapa Whā; recognise the impact of connections and relationships on wellbeing.
Social Sciences — Tikanga ā-Iwi
Level 3–4: Understand how cultural practices and values shape identity and wellbeing; recognise the role of community and whānau in supporting individuals; explore how Indigenous frameworks offer ways of understanding health that are distinct from Western biomedical models.
Aronga Mātauranga Māori
Māori communities have demonstrated extraordinary resilience across colonisation, land loss, language suppression, and disruption of tikanga — while continuing to maintain culture, language, and identity. That resilience was not primarily individual: it was collective, rooted in whanaungatanga, in the passing of knowledge through waiata and kōrero, in the refusal to let go of what matters. A resilience map that only asks students about their personal strengths misses this deeper picture. Mapping the whānau, the community, the cultural practices, and the places that hold strength is a more complete — and more Māori — account of what makes a person able to weather difficulty.
Ngā Rauemi Tautoko · Support Materials
- Unit 8 Support Circle (unit-8-support-circle.html) — identify the people dimension of resilience
- Unit 8 Growth Mindset Map (unit-8-growth-mindset-map.html) — connect resilience to learning from challenge
- Unit 8 Hauora Action Plan (hauora-action-plan-template-unit8.html) — build on resilience strengths
- Unit 8 Hinengaro Journal (unit-8-hinengaro-journal.html) — reflect on how resilience has shown up in life
Tuhia ōu whakaaro · Write Your Thoughts
What is the hardest thing you have ever come through? What helped you get through it?