He aha te mea nui o te ao. He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata
What is the most important thing in the world? It is people, it is people, it is people.
We believe that Rugby league is more than a game. Our sport creates and strengthens the social bonds that draw us together.
We are committed to enhancing community wellbeing by providing mental, physical and spiritual health support and educational opportunities to enhance our peoples’ ability to participate and flourish fully in society.
Over the past decade, our Wellbeing Initiative has grown organically from our organisational ethos. The Kiwi Way encapsulates our strategic direction while representing holistic elements that are essential to the growth of our people, our communities and our code.
Our wide range of social impact activities are organised into two components:
The sharing of wellbeing programmes during our games, in schools and online. We harness the might and mana of our players to positively influence our community, encourage them, support them, and demonstrate ways they can care of their mental, physical and spiritual health.
In the game of Rugby League, one of the most used phrases is to Find Your Front. It is an excellent metaphor for how we face and work through challenges in life. In partnership with the One NZ Warriors, New Zealand Rugby League brings you the Find Your Front podcast that deep dives into wellbeing conversations with past and present players discussing success, challenges and tools used to combat life and career pressures. This podcast is all about how people in our game find their front. In doing so, we hope it inspires you to find yours.
Mental Wealth and The Wellbeing Waka: 90 Minutes: In this session we discuss the facts around mental health, how to check in and provide some tools and pathways for how to feel good.
Finding Your Front: 45 Minutes: A direct and Powerful session brough from a Rugby League Context about some of the challenges you’ll face in life and how you can do some simle things to overcome them, just like the game of Rugby League.
Wellbeing and Education: 30 Minutes: This session is tailored to provide basic information around the NRL education pathway and framework, player agents and some basic wellbeing tips to keep you firing in life and on the field.
Is your school team, club or organisation interested in having NZRL Wellbeing deliver a session to your community? Fill out the enquiry form and we’ll be in contact.
*Session Bookings are subject to availability and scheduling. Sending the request does not confirm the booking, this may be done through the follow up process.
The provision of wellbeing services through a range of carefully curated strategic delivery partners and the provision of education resources including self-assessment tools to help people understand what they are feeling and find ways to receive support to live healthier.
*NZRL will be updating this test to reflect the self assessment tool developed by Te Whatu Ora. This will be updated start of 2023.
Rebuilding Wellbeing Resource
