Tūmanako Consultants

Organisations that recognise the moral necessity of embracing our colonial history often also possess a courage, a willingness to implement new ideas as a way of embodying their ownership of our history. Innovation Unit are an organisation who continue to walk that journey. Weeks ago, IU supported a member of our team to travel with IU to GELP 24 in Jakarta, Indonesia (Global education leadership partnership). Not just to attend and observe, but to sit on a panel with other indigenous peoples from the Squamish nation (first nations people in Canada) & Darumbal and South Sea Islander nations. Warm thanks and appreciation to Keren Caple & Martin James for that opportunity and the continued commitment to relationship driving the work we might do together.

Here is what Kate Frykberg was up to this weekend - helping to organise the "Activating tangata Tiriti" unconference / gathering in Pōneke. Six amazing, mostly pre-recorded short talks from awesome humans like Tina Ngata, Kassie Hartendorp, Catherine Love, Adreanne Ormond, Max Harris and Lani Evans MNZM, 65 fabulous participants, 20 inspiring peer-led sessions on ways in which we can take action in support of Te Tiriti, heaps of ideas, and lots of laughter. Thank you everyone who was part of it, and so good to be part of the organising team with the awesome Guenther, Lani Evans MNZM, Madeleine Taylor, and Kate Thomas. It was really good, and hope more will follow.

Ko Ūkaipō tēnā e whakakotahi i a tātou katoa. Ko Raukawa tēnā e karanga mai nei. Concientization requires confronting our shared history in Aotearoa in order to solidify our foundational knowledge in order to have any meaningful conversation about how to become a good tangata tiriti, a good pākehā or to support Māori aspirations.  Ūkaipō marae provided the space for us to wānanga with the DOC team from Tauranga region about that history, and from that came some inspired, poignant and bold ideas about how to honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Mihi atu ki ngā haukainga i manaaki ai tātou katoa ki te Wehiwehi o ngā mātua tūpuna.

Kia ora koutou - Lani Evans MNZM, Kate Thomas, Madeleine Taylor, Anna Guenther and Kate Frykberg are organising a gathering on Saturday Oct 12 for tangata Tiriti to grow our ability to act in support of Te Tiriti and against racism. Over the day there will be a mix of talks and un-conference style sessions, and we'll have free childcare and/or scholarship tickets available if you need it. There are just 60 tickets available so get in there folks! Would love to see you there. When: Saturday, 12 October 9am - 5pm Where: two/fiftyseven, Level 2, 57 Willis Street Wellington Link for more info and to register: https://lnkd.in/g9bcgrHn

Pukerangiora tēnā e karanga mai! What was the price you and your ancestors paid, to be citizens here in Aotearoa? This was one of the questions that emerged from Ki te Hoe at our second wānanga at Kairau Marae with Pukerangiora hapū. Openness, or willingness to be open is recognised as crucial for facing up to hard truths, such as the ones in our history, and as we found out together, those colonial realities can elicit strong emotions, emotions it can be easy to want to distance yourself from. Na reira, mihi atu ki te whānau o Pukerangiora, for helping guide us in our reckoning with those truths, sticking in the feelings and not simply escaping into the more comfortable "what can I do about it?" space. Ki te hoe wānanga tuarua done and dusted! Karanga mai e te whānau a Apanui! Philanthropy New Zealand

Ka takahia te ara wairua e Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau te Tuawhitu, ka too te raa, nau mai te poo ko Te Arikinui Kuini Ngaa Wai Hono i te Poo teenaa e tuu mai nei. When booking in our second noho with Fisher & Paykel Healthcare at Ruapōtaka Marae, we didn't anticipate it taking place the same day our new Kuini would be confirmed, heoi, mahia te mahi. It was another great chance to build some of the threads of concientisation with some members of the F&P Healthcare team who hadn't been able to attend earlier. There were some mind-expanding learnings, and many very well-engineered pātai that added to the wānanga bout how F&P might undertake this journey of supporting Māori aspirations in Aotearoa.

"The Kiingitanga is Aotearoa New Zealand’s only truly unique political institution. It is the definitive Aotearoa political identity. Every other political body we have originates elsewhere. The Kiingitanga is an example of what is possible we frame our politics based on kotahitanga, mana, tapu, mauri and manaakitanga. It is exceptional and perhaps our most sophisticated expression of a national political identity"

Waipuketia te awa o Waikato, ruuuu ana te whenua, eeneki i waiho nei i too taatou Kiingi. Kiingi Tuheitia Pootatau te tuawhitu has passed away, surrounded by whānau. Long has the Kiingitanga stood as a symbol and embodiment of the aspirations and dignity of Te Ao Māori and commitment towards Kotahitanga. The loss of Kiingi Tuheitia will reverberate around Te Moana nui a Kiwa and be felt by all corners of the world, In the words of Kiingi Tāwhiao "Tera ano ooku nei hoa kei ngaa toopito o te ao" Moe mai rā e te Ariki, whakarangatira ai te poo nui ki te taha o ngoo tuupuna.

He mana tō te kupu. The Nzherald front page has managed to breathe life into print media, if only for a moment. As long as Newspapers are in the headlines so to speak, i whakaaro mātou, sharing this front page from Te Karere circa 1842 would be a good idea. "Te Karere was a government newspaper, created to disseminate official information to Māori and reinforce the idea that Pākehā and Māori were contracted together under the Treaty of Waitangi." Even accounting for the photo quality, this feels like a far better front page to take up space on our screens.

He rua nō wai whetū tēnā e hoea nei e tātou! E rere tonu ana te reo mihi ki te whānau o Waiwhetū Marae Our wānanga for this years Ki te Hoe roopū took place at Waiwhetū, we spent several days in wānanga trying to understand how we might support Māori aspirations within the realm of Philanthropy. The first wānanga can sometimes be an overload of information and can expose people to a lot of firsts, but after getting a good deep stretch of those wānanga muscles, ka hua te mārama! Grateful for starting at Waiwhetu and in Arohanui ki te tāngata. Ka tika kia whakatō te kākano i roto i ngā tini tōtara i whakatōngia i kōnā i ngā tau kua pahure.