Haumanu - Bringing healing to restorative system change

Past trauma - intergenerational, collective, historic and systemic - is held inside individuals, groups, organisations and systems. This trauma has been created and compounded over time by dominance, separation, oppression and extraction. Current systems built on this trauma can be both traumatised and traumatising.

Acknowledging and addressing trauma can help us redesign our systems and organizations. Systems designed from a place of wellbeing, mauri ora and healing will create the conditions for new solutions to intractable problems to emerge.

Our team of associates from the Centre for Social Impact has for several years been creating, prototyping and refining Haumanu, a healing approach to systems change. Haumanu is a Māori word which means to revive, rejuvenate and restore to health. Haumanu blends western knowledge with mātauranga Māori. It takes what the late Professor Angus Macfarlane called “he awa whiria” - a “braided river” approach, combining the strengths of two distinct worldviews as equals.

In this webinar we will take you through why a healing approach to systems change is important. We will outline how Haumanu works and what we have learnt through our pilot programmes. The webinar is designed to help participants from organisations involved in systems change to understand the key concepts of a healing approach, and to help you consider what might be of value to your organisation and your mahi.

Presenters: Louise Marra and Tuihana Ohia supported by Rachael Trotman and Chloe Harwood. Read more about them on the CSI website here.