Path Events

FREE Parent/Whānau Group Coaching with Ali McCormick. These groups will be a mix of  FREE face-to-face and online coaching sessions designed for small groups of parents seeking support, strategies, and community connection.
There is also the opportunity to book one-on-one sessions with Ali (fees apply).

Dr Kris Taylor will provide a crash course for parents and those working with youth to understand the worldviews and ideologies young men are exposed to online, how masculinity influencers (e.g. Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, Sneako, Fresh and Fit and others in the ‘manosphere’) can affect young people, and key strategies to successfully engage in discussions with youth on this topic. If you’ve ever wondered how to discuss gender norms, sexism, harassment, misogyny, or pornography with a young person without alienating them, this evening is for you.

In collaboration with Upper Clutha Community Link, we are delighted to host Dr Lucy Hone. This community evening brings people together to explore how we navigate challenge and change in our lives. Lucy will share insights from science and lived experience on resilience, before joining Mount Aspiring College principal Nicola Jacobsen in a live conversation about what truly helps individuals and communities through difficult times. Known for her warmth, clarity and deeply human approach, Lucy offers a perspective that is practical, reassuring and grounded in real life. A thoughtful, inclusive evening of learning, reflection and connection. Lake Wānaka Centre, 6:30PM

Help shape the questions and themes that matter most to our community for whānau to thrive.

Together, parents will explore the issues, pressures, and realities of parenting in Upper Clutha today. The discussion will directly inform the Upper Clutha Parent Survey, which will run alongside the youth survey later this year — ensuring parent voice is genuinely reflected.

• Facilitator: Ali McCormick
• Date: 23 February, 9:00AM – 11:30AM
• Venue: Wānaka Community Hub, 34 McDougall St

This is a practical, collaborative session — your voice helps shape what comes next.

This evening hui brings parents together to reconnect with each other, in person, locally, and honestly. Open to parents of all ages and stages, this facilitated, interactive evening creates space to talk about what’s been hard, what’s helped, and how we can better support one another as a community. Whether you’re in the thick of early parenting or navigating adult children, you are welcome. The focus is on rebuilding local connections at a time when much of parenting support has shifted online. This is a practical, collaborative session — your voice helps shape what comes next.

• Facilitators: Ali McCormick, Gemma McCaw, Kirsten Roy
• Date: 23 February, 6:30-8:00PM
• Venue: Wānaka Community Hub, 34 McDougall St

FREE Parent/Whānau Group Coaching with Ali McCormick. These groups will be a mix of  FREE face-to-face and online coaching sessions designed for small groups of parents seeking support, strategies, and community connection.

Join us in Wānaka on 11 Sept for a powerful Cyber Safety Evening with Rob Cope. Learn how to protect your kids from online harm—bullying, predators, gaming addiction, and more. Free parenting course included in your ticket!

This Youth Mental Health First Aid course equips adults who teach, care for, or support rangatahi and young people with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to recognise, understand and respond to them experiencing a mental health challenge or mental health crisis. This 2-day workshop will cover a range of topics including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, psychosis, problematic substance abuse, non-suicidal self-injury, suicidal thoughts and behaviours, panic attacks, traumatic events and other situations.

Facilitated by Karyn Munro Mental Health First Aid Aotearoa, & Te Hau Toka, this course is designed to educate and empower ‘adults’ working with rangitahi (young people) with the skills, knowledge and confidence to support their mental health.

Nest course planned for September 2025 – Interested?  Contact us 

Alongside our partners, CO-REAP, Path Wānaka is delighted to bring you an insightful and educational evening with leading neuroscience educator, Nathan Wallis.

We’re here to help bring the right people and experts to our community in support of our youth. If you have an idea for a great topic or speaker, let the team at Path Wānaka know.