Bringing People Together
New Plymouth: MATES National Centre
Meet Kerry Babbage
New Plymouth Centre Leader: Kerry has studied and practiced processes for self-empowerment over 25 years, helping develop his understanding and aspiration toward the experience of purpose, sense of self and the interconnectedness of Life. The human psyche has also been an intrinsic part of Kerry’s education, in that true growth & understanding is proportional to the level of effective development and utilisation of our physical, emotional & mental faculties.
Over the last 12 years Kerry has worked extensively in counseling, running men’s forums, workshops, seminars, public speaking engagements & teaching in Australia and New Zealand on many and varied topics relating to personal development. He has an innate ability to connect with people & communicate in a fun, yet potent way.
The MATES Men’s Network was founded by Kerry in 2003 with its main objective – To create a conscious community through inspiring direction, clarity & understanding in all men through a group empowered process enabling them to realise their own individual life potential and therefore empower those around them.
In working closely with both men and women Kerry has, through his understanding of his experience and the experience of others realised the significance of relationship, not only with each other, but with life. MATES is constantly growing and transforming; offering practical truth through experiential techniques to transform our lives.
Kerry has realised his life’s path to be that of teaching, and developing more efficient and powerful transformational tools and techniques. He has an extraordinary ability to connect to and define truth in a practical and readily absorbed way. His attitude towards life is that of an adventure in learning from its lessons, and most of all expressing his sense of self through creativity and innovation.
“In all life’s teaching the most powerful is the sense of life’s purpose, a sense of not only understanding what needs to be done, but the ever-increasing knowledge of one’s unlimited potential to do it.”
Over the last 12 years Kerry has worked extensively in counseling, running men’s forums, workshops, seminars, public speaking engagements & teaching in Australia and New Zealand on many and varied topics relating to personal development. He has an innate ability to connect with people & communicate in a fun, yet potent way.
The MATES Men’s Network was founded by Kerry in 2003 with its main objective – To create a conscious community through inspiring direction, clarity & understanding in all men through a group empowered process enabling them to realise their own individual life potential and therefore empower those around them.
In working closely with both men and women Kerry has, through his understanding of his experience and the experience of others realised the significance of relationship, not only with each other, but with life. MATES is constantly growing and transforming; offering practical truth through experiential techniques to transform our lives.
Kerry has realised his life’s path to be that of teaching, and developing more efficient and powerful transformational tools and techniques. He has an extraordinary ability to connect to and define truth in a practical and readily absorbed way. His attitude towards life is that of an adventure in learning from its lessons, and most of all expressing his sense of self through creativity and innovation.
“In all life’s teaching the most powerful is the sense of life’s purpose, a sense of not only understanding what needs to be done, but the ever-increasing knowledge of one’s unlimited potential to do it.”
Information for MATES Men's Meetings (More Info Here) MATES meet at 7:00pm to 9:30pm at…
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- New Plymouth: 2nd and Last Thursday Evenings of month at TDI Center, 28 Young Street, New Plymouth
- New Plymouth: MATES Mental Health Meeting: Last Thursday Afternoon each month - 2:00pm to 4:00pm - at Progress to Health - Cnr Young & Dawson St New Plymouth
- Hawera: 1st and 3rd Thursday Evenings of month at Taiohi Oranga / Hawera House - 45 Regent Street, Hawera
- Tauranga: Fornightly on Tuesday Evenings at Totara House - 1428 Cameron Road, Greeton, Tauranga
- Stratford: 2nd and Last Tuesday Evenings of month at Stratford Community House 52 Juliet St, Stratford
- Te Kauwhata: Fornightly on Thursday Evenings at Totara House - Te Kauwhata Fire Station Baird Avenue
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Working Together - (Kerry Babbage Founder / CEO MATES)
I see my role as facilitating a unified collective of people toward a common objective of personal development and fulfillment. This role is crucial to the continued development of MATES, constantly developing new ways of optimizing, especially in terms of our programs, promotion & networking. Working together with our Trust, Committee and other dedicated members has helped MATES develop new goals and levels of understanding to generate fresh and new ideas to further our works and links. The continued development & unfolding of MATES over the past decade through practical and inspirational processes has provided clarity to create a multi-layered understanding, discovering how MATES works and benefits every individual, the organisation and the community at large. Our community are open and supportive of MATES; the continued development of a community resource that has major implications for use regionally, nationally and internationally. With the support and encouragement of those around us, utilising combined skills and wisdom as a team enables MATES to think more creatively, breaking down barriers and sharing our message with our community & the World of ‘What can be accomplished when working together’ |
New Plymouth is the major city of the Taranaki Region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from where the first English settlers migrated. The New Plymouth District includes New Plymouth City and several smaller towns. The New Plymouth District is the 15th largest district (out of 73) in New Zealand, and has 1.7 percent of New Zealand's population.[1] The district has a population of 68,901 — nearly two thirds of the total population of the Taranaki Region. This includes New Plymouth City (53,000), Waitara (6,288), Inglewood (3,090), Oakura (1,359), Okato (531) and Urenui (429).[2]
The city itself is a service centre for the region's principal economic activities including intensive pastoral activities (mainly dairy farming) as well as oil, natural gas and petrochemical exploration and production. It is also the region's financial centre as the home of the TSB Bank (formerly the Taranaki Savings Bank), the largest of the remaining non-government New Zealand-owned banks.
Notable features are the botanic gardens (e.g. Pukekura Park), the 11 km (6.8 mi) Coastal Walkway alongside the Tasman Sea, the Len Lye-designed 45-metre-tall (148 ft) artwork known as the Wind Wand, Paritutu Rock, and views of Mount Taranaki/Egmont.
As described under awards, New Plymouth won multiple awards in 2008. The city was in 2010 chosen as one of two walking & cycling "Model Communities" by the government. Based on New Plymouth's already positive attitude towards cyclists and pedestrians, the city received $3.71m to invest into infrastructure and community programs to boost walking and cycling.[3]
It is also noted for being a coastal city with a mountain within 30 minutes drive, where residents and visitors to New Plymouth can snowboard, ski, water ski and surf all in the same day.
In 1828 Richard "Dicky" Barrett (1807–47) set up a trading post at Ngamotu after arriving on the trading vessel Adventure. Barrett traded with the local Māori and helped negotiate the purchase of land from them on behalf of the New Zealand Company. Settlers were selected by the Plymouth Company, which was set up to attract emigrants from the West Country of England, and which took over land initially purchased by the New Zealand Company. The first of the town’s settlers arrived on the William Bryan, which anchored off the coast on 31 March 1841. A series of disputes over ownership and settlement of land developed between Māori and settlers soon after and New Plymouth became a fortified garrison town in 1860–1861 as more than 3500 Imperial soldiers, as well as local volunteers and militia, fought Māori in the First Taranaki War.
New Plymouth Province The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 created the New Plymouth Province, with a Provincial Council given jurisdiction over an area of 400,000ha. Five years later the name of the province changed to Taranaki Province. The province was abolished in 1876.
Borough/City of New Plymouth A Town Board was formed in 1863 and in August 1876 the town was constituted as a borough. Its new status did little to overcome some outside perceptions, however. In 1876 author E. W. Payton wrote that "all the great bustling 'cities' of the colony had a patronising way of trying to snub New Plymouth, referring to it in such derogatory terms as the dullest hole in the colony ... nothing whatever to do there... I find a great liking for this 'slow, old hole' ... it is a quiet, unassuming place and has not done so much to attract immigrants and settlers by exaggerating reports, as some districts have done."[4]
The Fitzroy Town District was merged with New Plymouth borough in August 1911; Vogeltown, Frankleigh Park and Westown were added a year later, followed by St Aubyn-Moturoa. By 1913 the town had a population of 7538. Seafront land was added in 1931 and 1941; land acquired on Omata Rd was added in 1955 and in 1960 large areas including land to the south of Paritutu, as well as Hurdon, Ferndale and Huatoki were included, as well as land straddling Mangorei Rd between the Henui Stream and Waiwakaiho River.
New Plymouth was declared a city in 1949.
The city itself is a service centre for the region's principal economic activities including intensive pastoral activities (mainly dairy farming) as well as oil, natural gas and petrochemical exploration and production. It is also the region's financial centre as the home of the TSB Bank (formerly the Taranaki Savings Bank), the largest of the remaining non-government New Zealand-owned banks.
Notable features are the botanic gardens (e.g. Pukekura Park), the 11 km (6.8 mi) Coastal Walkway alongside the Tasman Sea, the Len Lye-designed 45-metre-tall (148 ft) artwork known as the Wind Wand, Paritutu Rock, and views of Mount Taranaki/Egmont.
As described under awards, New Plymouth won multiple awards in 2008. The city was in 2010 chosen as one of two walking & cycling "Model Communities" by the government. Based on New Plymouth's already positive attitude towards cyclists and pedestrians, the city received $3.71m to invest into infrastructure and community programs to boost walking and cycling.[3]
It is also noted for being a coastal city with a mountain within 30 minutes drive, where residents and visitors to New Plymouth can snowboard, ski, water ski and surf all in the same day.
In 1828 Richard "Dicky" Barrett (1807–47) set up a trading post at Ngamotu after arriving on the trading vessel Adventure. Barrett traded with the local Māori and helped negotiate the purchase of land from them on behalf of the New Zealand Company. Settlers were selected by the Plymouth Company, which was set up to attract emigrants from the West Country of England, and which took over land initially purchased by the New Zealand Company. The first of the town’s settlers arrived on the William Bryan, which anchored off the coast on 31 March 1841. A series of disputes over ownership and settlement of land developed between Māori and settlers soon after and New Plymouth became a fortified garrison town in 1860–1861 as more than 3500 Imperial soldiers, as well as local volunteers and militia, fought Māori in the First Taranaki War.
New Plymouth Province The New Zealand Constitution Act 1852 created the New Plymouth Province, with a Provincial Council given jurisdiction over an area of 400,000ha. Five years later the name of the province changed to Taranaki Province. The province was abolished in 1876.
Borough/City of New Plymouth A Town Board was formed in 1863 and in August 1876 the town was constituted as a borough. Its new status did little to overcome some outside perceptions, however. In 1876 author E. W. Payton wrote that "all the great bustling 'cities' of the colony had a patronising way of trying to snub New Plymouth, referring to it in such derogatory terms as the dullest hole in the colony ... nothing whatever to do there... I find a great liking for this 'slow, old hole' ... it is a quiet, unassuming place and has not done so much to attract immigrants and settlers by exaggerating reports, as some districts have done."[4]
The Fitzroy Town District was merged with New Plymouth borough in August 1911; Vogeltown, Frankleigh Park and Westown were added a year later, followed by St Aubyn-Moturoa. By 1913 the town had a population of 7538. Seafront land was added in 1931 and 1941; land acquired on Omata Rd was added in 1955 and in 1960 large areas including land to the south of Paritutu, as well as Hurdon, Ferndale and Huatoki were included, as well as land straddling Mangorei Rd between the Henui Stream and Waiwakaiho River.
New Plymouth was declared a city in 1949.