Māia Collective
Rangahau
Our tupuna crossed the greatest ocean on earth with the stars above them and each other beside them. Te Waka o te Manawaroa, the Waka of Resilience, begins there. It is our own narrative practice, written by Māia Collective and woven through every one of our initiatives, and it reminds each wahine that resilience is not something she must find. It is something she inherits.
On the waka, her story is held across time. Behind her are tupuna who met the storms of their own day and still made landfall. Beneath her is the keel of her whakapapa. Beside her are those who paddle with her now. Ahead is te motu, the island of abundance she is steering toward for her mokopuna.
And the hardships she has faced are named for what they are: ngā ngaru, waves on the moana. They rose outside of her. They are not who she is. She is the navigator, and she comes from people who have always known how to read the sea.
A paper setting out the framework is being prepared for publication. Te Waka o te Manawaroa is held under kaitiakitanga by Māia Collective, and its use, training or adaptation requires our consent.
This rangahau began where it should, with māmā. At our rangahau noho, māmā takakau who have been through Puāwai gathered in wānanga with kairangahau from Māia Collective and the University of Auckland. They shared their lived experience, and they told us how a kaupapa Māori maternal wellbeing intervention had touched their own lives and the lives of their tamariki and whānau.
What they shared now leads the work. Their kōrero is informing which questions we take to Growing Up in New Zealand, this country’s largest contemporary longitudinal study of child development, following more than 6,000 tamariki and their whānau. The data is being read through the eyes of the māmā it describes, so their voice is privileged over assumptions made about them.
The project is held within our tikanga, and its findings will come home to our māmā first.
Whakaora is our bilingual meditation platform, in te reo Māori and in English, written and created by Māia Collective. Made to be used anywhere, Whakaora settles the mauri and leaves you inspired by your own mana and your ability to navigate any season.
Our rangahau sits alongside the mahi of many others working for the wellbeing of māmā and whānau in Aotearoa.
Mahi tahi
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We welcome expressions of interest for future rangahau collaborations that privilege the voices of the wāhine and whānau we serve. If your kaupapa aligns with ours, karanga mai. Share a little about your rangahau below and we will be in touch.
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