Welcome to the Balance Aotearoa Website

The Mental Health and Addiction Inquiry panel received over 5,000 submissions, and Panel members have attended over 300 meetings with individuals, community groups and stakeholders around the country. They’ve heard from many people about their experiences of mental health and addiction. This includes individuals’ personal experiences (directly or as family/whanau), what’s working well and what isn’t, and the experiences of providers, clinicians and advocates.

The Mental Health and Addiction Inquiry panel intends to honour our contributions by developing a report that leads to significant improvements in mental health and addiction in New Zealand and creates hope for the future. This Inquiry is a once in a generation opportunity to make real change. We are seizing that opportunity.

Balance Aotearoa is having its turn this week in Whanganui this week. And this is our written submission with an appendix that we will be talking to the Panel about, as well as hosting Whanganui Tangata Whaiora to have their say.

Balance NZ and Balance Whanganui merged to become Balance Aotearoa in July 2016. We took this decision to ensure the ongoing sustainability of our respective organisations so that we can continue to contribute to the mental health and addictions sector as a peer-led organisation.
All the things that Balance NZ currently does will remain in place i.e. peer led workshops, the online forums and our participation as a Disabled Person’s Organisation.

As a merged organisation we need to renew our membership connection with you. We invite new and existing members to sign up here. This means you will need to apply to become a member of Balance Aotearoa should you wish to.

If you have an queries or concerns please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or telephone 06 345 4488

Thank you for your ongoing support.

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Balance Aotearoa is a charitable trust that makes a difference in the lives of those affected by mental health issues with a focus on mood disorders. If this is your first visit you may like to have a look through the menus to get a feel for what the site and the network can offer you.

Welcome to the Balance NZ Website

Balance NZ is a charitable trust that makes a difference in the lives of those affected by mental health issues. If this is your first visit you may like to have a look through the menus to get a feel for what the site and the network can offer you.

Balance NZ is continuously evolving in our understandings of mental health and addiction issues and also the things which truly support mental and physical well-being, recovery and resilience.

As we evolve, one of the obvious outcomes is an increasing interest in the power of language to determine our ways of thinking about and responding to all of above.

Words are powerful things. They can hurt and heal, persuade and negate. Words and the language they make up do things, make things happen, and as creatures that rely on language we make words work to our own ends. It is language that makes it possible for us to think certain things and not others and the meanings we attach to words are not static: they change over time and in different circumstances.

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