Welcome
Welcome to Magenta Blue Ltd, the vision and passion of Tee Whiting. Magenta Blue Ltd offers a range of services - health & wellbeing coaching, health and wellbeing workshops, and, understanding the health and wellbeing impacts of family harm and its consequences.
To take the hassle out of sending staff off site for training, we facilitate at your location, or at a preferred location near you
Our workshops are built on a solid foundation of 23 years as a Registered Nurse across a number of disciplines, including working with people affected by Domestic Violence / Family Harm, and Sexual Violence. Tee has also been involved in Emergency Management and Response for 18 years in various roles including as a firefighter - now Station Officer; this experience has provided fantastic tools to add to the toolbox for the work that we do. The models and strategies that we use, are robust and can be applied to any situation - they are able to transfer across to other work and spaces; such as the M.A.N.E.R.S model in Psychological Wellbeing and Psychological First Aid - this model threads through all our Wellbeing workshops.
Tee is currently in the final stages of a Masters Degree in Health Practice majoring in Violence & Trauma Studies
Personal lived experience is also foundational to our workshops, as a survivor of Childhood Abuse and Neglect secondary to Domestic Violence / Family Harm, an adult survivor of Intimate Partner Violence, coercive control and entrapment, physical and emotional violence, financial control and abuse, and sexual violence, Tee has developed workshops to improve understanding of the impacts on those affected by Domestic Violence / Family Harm - and vitally - how we in the health field, can recognise and support families affected by Domestic Violence / Family Harm.
We work from a foundation of holistic (bio-psychosocial) health and wellbeing - the health and wellbeing impacts across the lifespan of historic trauma or acute stress, domestic violence / family harm, sexual harm. and toxic on chronic trauma and stressors, these don't happen in a vacuum and the physio-emotional impacts can be significantly deleterious to health and wellbeing across the lifespan.
We can help you to understand what Psychological Trauma looks like, what Domestic Violence / Family Harm is, and the effect of intimate partner violence on those affected by the violence and abuse. We look at the legislative changes over the decades and what the current legislation provides for. And we can and will help you to understand the physio-emotional impacts of toxic on chronic trauma and stressors - what this does to our bodies, to our minds, to our whanau, to our self belief, plus more
At Magenta Blue Ltd, we are driven to meet the Te Aorerekura National Strategy to Eliminate Family and Sexual Violence in Aotearoa New Zealand!
If you have any queries, send us an email, text, or give us a call. We look forward to hearing from you soon!!!
For an initial oversight into the workshops we provide - see below - click 'Learn more' to be taken to the relevant page.
*We are also in the development stage of our leadership workshops and other training*
HEALTH AND WELLBEING COACHING
Health and wellbeing coaching focuses on supporting people to make lasting improvements in their health and wellbeing, and therefore, quality of life.
By working with a coach, clients can develop customised plans, set achievable goals, and receive guidance and support throughout their journey.
Some key areas include stress management, nutrition, exercise, sleep, work-life balance, and personal growth.
BREAKING THE CODE OF SILENCE
Silence is a pervasive effect within Family Harm or Domestic Violence, there are many reasons for the silence, the most vital being that it is about 'safety', however, in maintaining the code of silence, the harm grows, the risks increase, and the long term impacts across the lifespan on children and the survivors of family harm/domestic violence can be catastrophic. To understand more about Breaking the code of silence, see our page 'Breaking the code'.
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
VIOLENCE & TRAUMA
Our Mission is to help reduce the effects of Violence & Trauma, by helping to facilitate understanding and knowledge.
Te Aorerekura - the National Strategy to Eliminate Family and Sexual Violence (2021)
Sets a 'wellbeing and strengths-based vision for eliminating family and sexual violence' with a stronger focus on primary prevention, healing, and the critical role of tangata whenua and community leadership for achieving intergenerational change.
Today
- Almost half (47%) of the victims of sexual assault are between 15 and 29 years old.
- Family violence and sexual violence are about power and control
- Young people who are exposed to violence in their home and twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who are not exposed to violence
- Violence against women and children are the most common forms of family violence and sexual violence
- 7% of all children have have a family violence notification to government.
- Women are 3x as likely to experience intimate partner violence and wahine maori are more likely to be impacted by violence than any other ethnicity. (p11,12)
A 'snippet' into what our workshops cover
- The effect of Coercive Control and Entrapment and how this can preclude those affected from leaving
- Ways to improve our health systems response to historic trauma - we can do better! Historic trauma not recognised equals further trauma
- The agencies available to support those affected by Domestic Violence / Family Harm
- Provide understanding of the impact of Domestic Violence / Family Harm, Stress and Trauma, on our physio-emotional health and wellbeing
- Changes in Aotearoa New Zealand Domestic Violence Legislation over the decades, and what it looks like today
- National and International evidence of the range of violence and abuse effected in Domestic Violence / Family Harm - Physical, Psychological, Spiritual, Financial, Sexual,
- Domestic Violence / Family Harm and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) - National and International evidence of the causes and prevalence of TBI in Intimate Partner Violence and Family Harm, and the lifetime impacts
WELLBEING AND CONNECTION
Our range of Wellbeing Workshops are our response to help mitigate the effects of Trauma, whether historic, intergenerational, acute, through Domestic Violence / Family Harm, environmental and more.
Stress and Trauma, two different ends of a wide spectrum, are increasingly being used interchangeably, but they are two very different stages in a persons capacity to meet challenge and threat.
The physio-emotional response to stress and trauma are equally determined by duration, intensity, cumulation; our ability to adapt to challenging situations. Historic trauma and modern stressors are colliding and causing increasing distress in the community.
Our workshops look at the cause and effect of stress and trauma, and we cover psychological first aid, psychological wellbeing, holistic wellbeing models, and decompression techniques, and we look at the impacts of how 'happiology' is affecting our ability to engage with our emotions.
- Psychological Wellbeing and Psychological First Aid Workshops
- Our physio-emotional responses to Stress and Trauma
- How historic trauma affects the health and wellbeing of a person acutely and/or chronically
- Stress & Trauma, the collision of Historic Trauma & modern day stressors, what is stress, when does it become trauma?
- Emotions and the 'Happiology' or 'Toxic Positivity' movement, how our emotions are an integral part of us and why
- Respect & Inclusion - working together and supporting each other in the workplace
- Plus more