Week 2: Whakawhanaungatanga

Whakatau

Welcome from academyEX. Kōrero referenced three hearts/ngākau – head, heart, gut. Seek to have all three in alignment

Whakawhanaungatanga

Each person shared the story of who they are and what journey brought them to Leading Change to Good. We heard about:

• winding, indirect journeys
• strength forged through life experience and adversity
• whakapapa shaping who we are today
• difficulty with traditional learning models
• loving, inspirational, supportive whānau

My reflections

What an incredible way to open the course, allowing us to get to know each other and to discover to many cross-overs and connections within our group.  We were open and vulnerable in a way that normally wouldn’t come for weeks of knowing people.

I’ve experienced this in LNZ and SC Adaptive Leadership. I’m pleasantly surprised to know it has a place in formal education settings too. Loved it!

Mihimihi

Nō Ingarangi, Kōtirana, Nōwei ōku tupuna

I tipu ake au ki Titirangi

Nō reira, ka mihi ki ngā pae maunga o Tiriwa me te moana Manukau

Engari kei Kingsland taku kainga

Ko Ngāti Pākehā te iwi

Ko Natalie Barker taku ingoa

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

What do we know about the treaty? How far along the discovery journey are we? Are we tangata whenua or tangata tiriti?

I’m tangata tiriti, my great grandparents arrived from England, Scotland and Norway in the mid to late 1800s. Through Te Ara Reo Māori, Te Kaa and LNZ, I’ve learned more about the treaty and colonisation over recent years, and reflected on what my role is.

My children can also identify as tangata whenua. Their great great great grandmother Sophia Hinerangi, was a young girl living in the Bay of Islands when the treaty was signed in 1840.

It’s important that I’m talking about the treaty and the intergenerational impacts of colonisation with them, so they feel some ownership in the challenges we face into the future.