Purpose
Our mission is to make emotional safety accessible by providing tools, insights, and support that empower people to understand their brains, navigate their emotions, and build resilient, connected communities.
BrainHug is grounded in clear vision:
To create emotionally safe, resilient communities by helping people understand their brains, regulate emotions, and thrive.
We do this through:
BrainHug Charitable Trust
BrainHug Charitable Trust
BrainHug Trust focuses on system-level change.
We provide inclusive, high-quality, and culturally respectful tools, resources, and professional development grounded in neuroscience. Our mission is to empower schools, educators, whānau, and communities to build consistent, trauma-informed, neurodiverse-aware, and resilience-focused emotional regulation practices. BrainHug Trust also works behind the scenes to support sustainable, long-term change.
BrainHug's founder
Tēnā koutou katoa
Kō Emma toku ingoa,
Nō Whakatū ahau
Emma Hunter, Whakatū, Nelson, NZ
I am a New Zealand educator, researcher and mum with over 20 years of experience across primary, intermediate, college, and alternative education settings.
As the founder of BrainHug, I am passionate about turning brain science into easy-to-understand tools for classrooms, homes and communities. Through storytelling and accessible visuals, BrainHug helps make the brain feel less like a mystery and more like an ecosystem - something we can learn about, care for, and protect.
Drawing on the beauty and wisdom of Aotearoa’s ngāhere, native forest. Just as we are kaitiaki of our forests, we can learn to be kaitiaki of our own brains - building strong foundations of self-awareness, emotional regulation, and resilience.
A resilient ecosystem weathers storms and bounces back. In the same way, by tending to our internal landscapes, we help our tamariki and communities grow the resilience needed to thrive in an ever-changing world.
I hold a Master’s degree in Educational leadership with a focus on school attendance, and I am currently completing a PhD exploring how culturally responsive, trauma-informed, relational neuroscience can support wellbeing and resilience across communities. My mission is to grow a shared language of hauora - empowering us all to connect, regulate, and flourish together.
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