Events

HERiZON: Welcome to the Jungle | Bay of Plenty Tend Women’s Health Week 2026

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Date: Tuesday 11 August 2026
Time: 8:30am to 12:00pm
Venue: Papamoa Surf Lifesaving Club
Location: Papamoa, Bay of Plenty
Theme: Welcome to the Jungle
Format: Panel conversation and practical workshop

Navigate. Normalise. Rise.

Life doesn’t slow down.

And for many women, it can feel like a jungle.

Work. Leadership. Health. Identity. Motherhood. Business. Hormones. Expectations.

All happening at once, often without a map.

HERiZON: Welcome to the Jungle is a workshop-led experience for women navigating the complexity of modern life while still showing up for everyone else.

This isn’t polished panel talk or surface-level networking.

It’s real kōrero, grounded voices, practical tools, and meaningful connection.

We’ll talk honestly about what women are facing right now, including leadership pressure, emotional load, burnout, mental wellbeing, business growth, identity shifts, hormonal transitions, and the messy middle of change.

And we’ll do it alongside wāhine who are living it.

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The flow on the day

8:30am
Doors open, coffee, connection and settling into the room.

9:30am
Welcome, grounding and panel conversation.

Panel Conversation
A raw, real and honest conversation with inspiring wāhine sharing lived experience across wellbeing, business, leadership, motherhood, identity and life.

Morning Tea and Connection
Space to pause, connect, ask questions and continue the kōrero.

Workshop: Navigate. Normalise. Rise.
This is where it gets practical.

You’ll move into an interactive HERiZON workbook session designed to help you reflect, name what’s really going on, and walk away with clarity and next steps, not just notes.

12:00pm
Event close.

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What your ticket includes

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Panel conversation
A raw, real and honest conversation with inspiring wāhine.

Guided HERiZON workbook session
A practical workshop experience designed to help you reflect, reset and take action.

HERiZON workbook
A guided workbook to use during the event and take home for continued reflection.

Morning tea
A chance to pause, connect and continue the kōrero.

Gift and product inclusions
Including a Bhone Beauty bone broth sample inclusion from Renei Kelt, along with sponsor perks and curated giveaways.

Meaningful connection
A room full of women who get it.

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Featured Wāhine

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Karen Murrell
Founder and CEO of Karen Murrell Lipsticks, bringing a powerful founder lens on business, resilience, reinvention and building a values-led New Zealand brand.

Ivanka Zonjić
Media personality and storyteller, bringing warmth, lived experience and honest perspective around confidence, identity, communication and navigating change.

Renei Kelt
Founder of Bhone Beauty, a New Zealand wellness brand built on a simple belief: nourishing yourself shouldn’t be complicated. After becoming a mother and hitting her own wall with energy, gut health and skin, she created Bhone from the ground up. Working alongside scientists and microbiologists, Renei developed premium bone broth blends designed for real women, real routines and real results.

Chrissy
Speaker details to be announced soon.

More speaker details to be announced soon.

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Proudly supported by

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HERiZON: Welcome to the Jungle BOP is proudly supported by Spark Business Hub Bay of Plenty as our lead event partner.

We’re grateful for their support in helping us bring this experience to the Bay of Plenty and create a space for women in business, leadership, wellbeing and life to connect, reflect and reset.
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Partner inclusions

With thanks to Bhone Beauty by Renei Kelt for providing a bone broth sample inclusion for attendees.
More partner details and inclusions will be announced soon.

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This room is for you if you are: 

‍- Leading a team

- Building a business
- Navigating motherhood, hormones, burnout or change
- Carrying a lot behind the scenes
- Looking for meaningful connection beyond standard networking
- Ready for honest conversations and practical tools
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Ticket releases

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Early Bird Release: $69
Limited first release.

General Admission: $79
Standard release.

Final Release: $89
Final allocation once earlier releases sell out.

HERiZON: Welcome to the Jungle is proudly aligned with Tend Women’s Health Week 2026.

We’re choosing conversation over silence, tools over overwhelm, and community over comparison.

This is about creating spaces where women feel seen, supported and equipped, not fixed.

Because the jungle looks different depending on where you are in your journey.

Navigate. Normalise. Rise.