Nau mai haere mai to this session of Practice Foundations where we used Hautū Waka to help us to navigate ourselves forward in complex systems. Hautū Waka is a navigational framework rooted in mātauranga Māori and a tool for navigating the complexity of systems to build intergenerational equity and wellbeing.

The Hautū Waka framework has been developed by Roimata and Ayla Hoeta, guided by Matua Rereata Makiha. Roimata Taniwha-Paoo took us for a pipi dive into the practices and tools of Hautū Waka. This session builds on last years.

Karl Wixon specialises in envisioning, codesigning and achieving positive futures through thought leadership, strategy, change, design, growth and innovation. He brings a marriage of commercial, creative and cultural acumen to all he does and is frequently called on as a skilled facilitator to weave together complex collaborations spanning cultures, sectors, entities and interests to develop shared visions, find direction, and codesign solutions.

Te Tokotoru is a systems approach to wellbeing, developed alongside whānau and rangatahi. It provides a different starting point for designing and investing in equity and intergenerational wellbeing. It is being used in different government settings like Te Aorerekura to enable a shift towards strengthening and healing.

The Healthy Families South Auckland team is working with many of Auckland Council’s services to help local government promote health and wellbeing. One project has involved helping Auckland Council ECEs and after-school programmes to provide children with better access to good food. In this Practice Foundations session, Winnie Hauraki, Manager of Healthy Families South Auckland, will share how she and her team worked to make these shifts in the system, the approaches they took, and the challenges they faced.

He Whānau Whānui o Papakura (HWWoP) is a group of whānau residing or connected to Papakura, leading an innovation process focused on thriving futures for tamariki. Supported by Papakura Marae and The Southern Initiative (Auckland Council), HWWoP has been working with local agency leaders to design and test local prototypes that are strengths-based, values-led alternatives to current service and programmes models.

In this Practice Foundations session, Dickie Humphries will lead us through some of these questions, based on his own experience of responding to these same questions in his practice. He will introduce concepts and tools from Moana Nui, and reflect on practical and real-life lessons from his work in indigenising systems.

When we think of co-design, we often land directly in the doing of the co-design with communities. However when communities think of co-design, they are often thinking also of what comes before (co-governance, for example) and what comes after, such as co-evaluation).