"Wisdom can be seen as having the ability to consider, or contemplate, and then act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense, insight and good judgement."
AWNZ, 2023
What do we provide?
Acquire Wisdom New Zealand is the place to go for personal guidance to enable you to discover more about yourself and to provide tools to prompt you onwards with your mindful journey to acquire wisdom!
We also provide bespoke Mindfulness and Coaching/Mentoring for teams or small businesses, where the aim is to provide personal and professional support, coaching, mentoring or critical friendship.
Our sessions are held online or during the day (and after school) at our studio in Browns Bay on Auckland's North Shore.
Mindfulness
Regular classes to our own international curriculum. With customised sessions or activities for businesses, teams or groups.
Guided Meditation
Be led slowly and thoughtfully through a meditation exercise.
Asian Mysticism
Reading of cards, number analysis and understanding gratitude.
Coaching/Mentoring
For individuals, teams or small businesses - get guidance with moving towards agreed goals.
Who are we?
Stuart Tasker
Co-founder and CEO
Acquire Wisdom New Zealand
Stuart is a highly experienced educational leader, having spent 22 years as a Principal or Head of School in New Zealand and in Asia. Stuart is a New Zealand trained and qualified teacher of Mathematics, Science and Physics. He has a PhD in Education and separate postgraduate qualifications in Teaching, in Mathematics Education and also in Educational Administration. In his final role in formal education, prior to starting AWNZ with his wife Poppy, Stuart spent 4 years as the CEO of a successful international school in Bangkok.
Poppy Tasker
Co-founder
Acquire Wisdom New Zealand
Poppy qualified from university in Thailand with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in English Language. After her graduation, Poppy worked professionally for 4 years as a singer before working in an international school in Thailand supporting students with their English language development, as a Librarian and then also as a teacher of Thai Language and Culture. In her final role in education, prior to starting AWNZ with her husband Stuart, Poppy spent 4 years as a teacher of Mindfulness in a successful international school in Bangkok.
Mindful Melvin
Executive Vice-President of Stuff and Things
Acquire Wisdom New Zealand
Melvin has lived a simple life since he hatched in Masterton, the heart of the beautiful Wairarapa, in New Zealand. Melvin spent his early life thinking about life, his favourite pastime being gazing into the distance being lost in thought. Although occasionally the gaze masked that he was actually empty of thought and was simply being, or as he puts it 'Aming'. Melvin enjoys mindfulness, meditation and mandala. He is the co-author of the first 10 of Acquire Wisdom New Zealand's successful Mandala Art - Mindfulness in Action books.
The Hopi Hand
In the Hopi hand, the spiral represents the universe, or eternity and, when combined with the shape of the hand, the symbol is said to have therapeutic energy.
We use this symbol at Acquire Wisdom New Zealand as a means of representing the continual spiralling learning process towards understanding. Which, with the appropriate application of the gained knowledge, can lead to acquiring wisdom.
