Coromind Magazine Issue 8

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Coromind Editorial - Issue 8, 2023

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Settling on the Coromandel Peninsula over 30 years ago, I’ve found much to spark creative inspiration in our beautiful environment. The land and seascapes, beaches, bush-clad hills, ever-changing light and striking coastline often feature in my work. Dinghies, caravans and old baches under ancient pōhutukawa have become central characters in many of my paintings, evoking a warm sense of nostalgia and playful wonder.

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Centuries ago, Māori settled Tīkapa Moana|the Firth of Thames, revelling in the abundance of kaimoana, freshwater eels and birdlife. Kauaeranga, near the river-mouth, was a significant settlement. Upriver in Parawai, the street name Herewaka means ‘safe anchorage’. Pā and kāinga shaped the coastline from Tararu to Kōpū and up the Waihou River to pā like Oruarangi, and the rich soil was cultivated.

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Architectural design on the coast, at its core, should be guided by considered spatial design as well as the form our buildings take within their natural environment, and our architectural heritage.

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Born and Raised is our inspirational feature, highlighting homegrown Coromandel Peninsula folks doing wonderful things out in the world.

In this edition: Blake Byles

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Teens need resilience, confidence and a whole lot more. On a basic level, at Evakona Education, Japanese teens learn language skills for high school, including Maths. But more than that, the 42-week high school preparation programme includes life skills, focusing on the whole person:

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I’m Kyla Wilson, a 17 year old girl from the Thames-Coromandel Coast. My interests are the outdoors and participating in different sports. My passion, however, lies with netball. Since I turned eight, I have been playing netball every year. My love for the game comes from many things: finding some of my best friends, staying fit, and the thrill of competition. During the last two seasons of high school netball, I have also been fortunate enough to be able to compete alongside my sister Nia as a defending duo.

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In a world plagued by screens, it’s so important that we make time to connect with nature and appreciate our epic surroundings. Scenic tracks not only provide heaps of inspiration for my work as a landscape painter, but they also have so many benefits for my physical and mental health. If you’re visiting Coromandel with friends and whānau or you’re a local looking for a change of scene, it’s worth exploring these beautiful tracks. Here are my favourite five on the Coromandel Peninsula…

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I’ve been working with athletes for more than 16 years and visualisation is one of the most common and most important techniques used in Sport Psychology. It means that you envisage a new sequence of movement, a race course or any sort of goal with all the details and with all your senses, mentally before you do it physically. This technique is so successful, because your subconscious mind cannot distinguish whether what you have just thought of was just imagination or actually real. Even your body will respond to an imagining with real-life symptoms.

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