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March 20, 2020 at 2:12 PM

From the NZFVC

DATE

Monday 20 April 2020

TIME

11am-12noon

LOCATION

Online

ORGANISED BY

Community Research

COST

Free. Please consider including a donation when registering.

Ngati Porou psychiatrist Dr Diana Kopua gives us an insight into her work developing Mahi a Atua, a Māori approach to well-being which draws on the stories, narratives and healing practices of te ao Māori. Her work in Turanganui A Kiwa has delivered significant health benefits for whānau and the services in the region.

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It is an approach that encourages practitioners to actively engage in Māori interventions that draw from the Māori creation and custom stories known as pūrākau to understand how tipuna understood and made sense of their realities.

Mahi a Atua is not just a set of techniques or a culturally sensitive therapy. It is a drastically different way of conceptualizing the lived experience of the Maori. It is a way of being, and strengthens our relationship with whakapapa, relationships with our own stories. The pūrākau (storytelling) help us to collectively design and operationalise indigenous knowledge systems that improve all of community outcomes.

Join Dr Kopua to learn about Mahi a Atua and the importance of language and narratives in how we understand our world and improve our being, our whānau and our communities.