Te Oho Whakaaro - Awakening Thoughts

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Course curriculum

1. Tēnā koutou, e hoa mā!
2. Whakamihi & acknowledgements
3. Navigating this course
4. Keeping your reflections
5. Other navigation & accessibility tips
1. Before we begin...
2. Preparing the mind
1. Whakataukī
2. Learning outcomes
3. The arrival of Māori in Aotearoa
4. He ao! He ao tea! He ao tea roa!
5. Early social structures
6. Mana, authority, and rangatiratanga
7. Mana motuhake & tino rangatiratanga
8. Te ao Māori evolved on this whenua
9. Timeline
10. A thriving nation
11. Test your knowledge
12. Written reflection
13. This is where it gets spicy...
14. Kaupapa on the Couch - The declaration of what now!?
15. Te Ao Tapatahi: Highlighting He Whakaputanga
16. Mini-workshop: Read the original He Whakaputanga
17. Without He Whakaputanga, there might have been no Tiriti o Waitangi!
18. Test your knowledge
19. Survey
20. Written reflection
21. Test your knowledge
1. Whakataukī
2. Learning outcomes
3. British fury and the drafting of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and The Treaty
4. Let's get our facts straight
5. Applying a critical lens
6. Test your knowledge
7. Mini-workshop: Have a read of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
8. Were the differences on purpose?
9. Let’s hear some perspectives
10. Let's dig in
11. Test your knowledge
12. Written reflection
13. Take a break! (optional)
14. Whakapapa is central
15. Comparing a world organised by gender to a world organised by whakapapa
16. Homosexuality becomes a crime
17. Definition of 'takatāpui'
18. Definition of 'irawhiti'
19. What is the history of Māori sexuality? Elizabeth Kerekere
20. Written reflection
21. What came next?
22. Written reflection
1. Whakataukī
2. Learning outcomes
3. The new settler Government
4. Crown law and its impacts
5. Timeline
6. White supremacy was in vogue
7. Detribalisation efforts
8. The dying people, the dying language
9. 200 years of bad press
10. Land loss over time
11. Mythbusting the scale of reparations
12. Take a break! (optional)
13. So what's decolonisation?
14. The Māori renaissance & history of resistance
15. Current day perspectives
16. Written reflections
17. Insights into partnership - Tina Ngata
18. Thriving together
19. Written reflection
20. Written reflection
1. Whakataukī
2. Learning outcomes
3. Kaupapa Māori approaches
4. Uniting us under Te Tiriti
5. What is cultural neutrality?
6. Developing in a bubble
7. Test your knowledge
8. What's the history of cultural safety in Aotearoa
9. Cultural safety is a collective responsibility
10. Moving from awareness toward safety
11. Mini-workshop
12. Written reflections
13. Take a break! (optional)
14. Understanding mātauranga Māori
15. Insights into Kaupapa Māori
16. Insights into Kaupapa Māori: Kotahitanga
17. Insights into Kaupapa Māori: Hauora
18. Insights into Kaupapa Māori: Taonga
19. Written reflections
1. Whakataukī
2. Learning outcomes
3. We're rebranding
4. Reciting whakapapa
5. Self-awareness does not begin with self
6. Whakapapa - from covered, to uncovered, to shared, to known
7. How to say your pepeha: Tikanga explained
8. An uncovering
9. Here's another guide
10. Kō wai au? Who am I? Māori or Pākehā?
11. Written reflection
12. Take a break! (optional)
13. Let's talk about time well spent
14. Soft skills
15. Written reflection
16. Changing how we do mahi
17. Kōrero with a friend, then share your reflection.
18. Personal significance of whakapapa
1. Whakataukī
2. Learning outcomes
3. Insights into kaupapa Māori: Manaakitanga
4. Manaakitanga at its best in Ruatoria
5. Insights into kaupapa Māori: Whanaungatanga
6. Whanaungatanga - a protective factor that connects people
7. Whanaungatanga - Mana Taiohi
8. Insights into kaupapa Māori: Mana
9. Do family and whānau mean the same thing?
10. What does it mean to be Tangata Tiriti?
11. Reflection
12. Test your knowledge
13. Test your knowledge
14. Test your knowledge
15. Mini-workshop
16. Take a break! (optional)
17. What is direct, structural and cultural violence?
18. Colonisation and the link to violence
19. Growing up takatāpui
20. Homelessness
21. What is restorative justice?
22. With Manaaki there is no judgement
23. Ways forward
24. Written reflection
1. Whakataukī
2. Learning outcomes
3. Survey
4. What is a Māori health & wellbeing model?
5. Why Use a Māori health & wellbeing model?
6. Te Whare Tapa Whā
7. Let's hear from Sir Mason Durie
8. Thinking at the whānau level
9. Mini workshop
10. Te Pae Mahutonga
11. Gender Minorities Aotearoa introduce Te Pae Mahutonga
12. Leadership and autonomy as part of health
13. Let's dig in...
14. Mini-workshop
15. Reflections
16. Test your knowledge
1. Whakataukī
2. Learning outcomes
3. Survey
4. Understanding Te Wheke
5. Remembering Dr. Rangimarie Turuki Rose Pere
6. In her own words, Dr Pere speaks of Te Wheke Kaumaatu - The Octopus of Great Wisdom
7. Mini-workshop - Case study: Tentacular Kōrero
8. Written reflection
9. Mini-workshop: Introducing Te Whare Takatāpui
10. Written reflection
11. Written reflection
12. Test your knowledge
1. Whakataukī
2. Learning outcomes
3. Māori philosophy integrated into the health system...
4. Learning from leaders - Te Ahi Wī-hongi from Gender Minorities Aotearoa
5. Learning from leaders - Kim McBreen on Cultural Safety
6. Learning from leaders - Miriam Sess
7. Many voices
8. Mini-workshop
9. Written reflection
1. Whakataukī
2. Learning outcomes
3. Changing how we do things: Being proactive and engaging in critical reflective practices
4. Worksheet
5. Mini-workshop
6. Mini-workshop
7. Finishing this course
1. Further learning
2. Photographic essay
3. Pre-colonial attitudes to sex and gender fluidity
4. Manaakitanga: Embracing the Spirit of Māori Hospitality in Your Home
5. Kia Mau Resisting Colonial Fictions by Tina Ngata
6. We had He Whakaputanga, so how come we added Te Tiriti?
7. The Native Land (Taking) Court
8. The lands & acts that were designed to separate Māori from our whenua
9. Examining unconscious bias
10. Challenging binary distinctions
11. Further reading: Thinking critically about blood quantum
12. Pepeha for non-Māori
13. Beyond cultural paralysis
14. Māori women rule!
15. The Honour Project
16. The Honour Project - Final report
17. Whanaungatanga: Connecting whānau through shared values and experiences

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Te Oho Whakaaro - Awakening Thoughts

Course curriculum

Kia tīmata tātou! Let's begin!

Lesson 1: Preparing the mind

Lesson 2: Before te Tiriti

Lesson 3: Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Lesson 4: The land grab - impact to lineage

Lesson 5: Establishing trust in partnership - a values-led approach

Lesson 6: Entering into relationship - Ko wai au? Ko wai koe?

Lesson 7: Being in relationship with irawhiti and takatāpui in the context of violence prevention

Lesson 8: Māori Models of Health and Wellbeing 1

Lesson 9: Māori Models of Health and Wellbeing 2

Lesson 10: Applying Māori health and wellbeing models with care

Lesson 11: Bringing it all together - integrating what you've learned into critical reflective practice.

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