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Te hui taketake a te puna tahua toa Rotorua July 2024 He kura huna nō tua e kawea ai ki tua | Looking to the past to inform the future Reflecting on the passing of Kiingi Tuheitia and the shifting of responsibility to his youngest child, Kuini Nga wai hono i te po, brings this kaupapa into focus around changes in leadership and opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for our rangatahi in leadership. Speakers: Sir Rob McLeod, Saga Williams, Nickolaus Lewis, Ben Eisikovich, CA, Shantelle Thompson OAM This session sparked debate and while some comments may have hurt our hearts, what is clear is our indigenous leaders of the future will lead with an indigenous mindset. The next generation is strong, and we must focus our energy here to move us forward. The ability to succeed in a system that failed is not afforded to everyone especially when your starting point is not the same. It’s probably fair to say we should check our privilege before compare our success to others. Since British law making became part of Aotearoa the laws made have been inequitable, with devasting outcomes on health and welfare of our people. If there was true equity why do we have the Waitangi Tribunal for breaches. The financial reciprocity from these breaches, including land confiscation does not magically fix things, especially when the return does not equate to the loss. Prior to colonisation indigenous nations traded, travelled, taught and treasured the environment we lived in. While we will never truly know, I am confident that left to develop our lands and our people our way we would have thrived. We would not have remained stuck in time living primitively. Poipoia te kākano, kia puawai – nurture the seed and it will flourish As the indigenous population grows and we activate our youth into decision making positions, it is then that we can find true partnership. We need to protect and nurture our youth as they grow into leadership. We need to follow indigenous education models to support our youth to lead with an indigenous mindset. Our people are resilient, we are still here, we have survived and we will thrive. 200 years of colonisation has not stripped us of our identity, it is but a bump in the road. The bump however has created culture loss, and having to YouTube your culture to learn your culture is devastating. But if we take the hits now, relearn our culture, our children do not have to, it will be their normal. We need to recognise leadership burnout and not only ask for help and but take it when offered. Asking for help is not weakness, you need to stand in your power and be in control, control what you do and more importantly why you are doing it. 

Te Hui Taketake a Te Puna Tahua Toa Rotorua, July 2024 A complete different way of operating Running hard while you’ve got the ball and navigating through the rolling mall of highs and lows in the public eye to navigating your way home. Speaker: Hon Kiritapu Allan We are the generation of tertiary education who need to use that education to unlock the system and liberate our people. When working in the system what role do you play, the gate keeper or the navigator who can hustle the system to make it work for our people. Others do it so we should too. Try not to be enticed by the privilege you get being in the system, the income, the status, the perks. You can become detached from your whānau and the people you are there to liberate. As leaders (in the system or not) we don’t talk about the hard times and the isolation and how the system can break your soul. We need to take care of our whole self to be good leaders, find that balance in life and hold to your fundamentals to keep your feet on the ground. Take time to respond, recover and resume because our people deserve the best, they deserve for us to be exceptional, to break the mould and be bold to do what is impossible. We need to collectivise to get ahead and while being in Government can provide privilege, there are some dead rats you have to swallow and that’s something we have to live with. So, when working in Government: - Learn the tools, - Use the tools, - Master the tools, - Hustle the tools,  to provide for better outcomes for our people.

Te Hui Taketake a Te Puna Tahua Toa Rotorua July 2024 Language revitalization Speakers: Anaha Hiini Dan Brant PhD Tania Tapsell Dylan Berger Melanie Benjamin (National Congress of American Indians) Ko te reo kia tika, Ko te reo kia rere, Ko te reo kia Māori Recognise the aspects of learning the language around grammar, pronunciation, flow and think from a Māori / Indigenous perspective. The ways to reclaim your language will vary from person to person, but in summary just SPEAK IT: · Space: Make space for language in your home (and or workplace), either a room or a time of the day where only that language is spoken.  · Person: Find the right person to learn your language, find a person you idolise and can follow., find your person / people that you will only speak that language with and someone · Easy: Make learning easy for you, everyone is different, find how you learn best and use that method.  · Active: Actively find resources in your preferred medium of learning, don’t wait for it to be handed to you. Watch, listen, read more language content and have the courage to be confidence and speak the language, take it from the page and bring it to life. · Keep: Keep going, learning is a life long journey, if you stop learning then you stop! · Intentional: We all have great intent to do things, but make intentional decisions in your life about using the language, e.g. a time and place where you will only speak your language. · Time: Don’t find the time, make the time and commit to that time Language revitalisation across the worlds is at different stages of reclamation and all efforts to teach and learn need to be invested in, community driven and recognised a valuable to the country. It will be hard, and you will be confronted with resistance and racism from those who fear what having language will do. But just SPEAK IT. You don’t need money to revitalise the language, you just need the people, yes funding helps but if you find the people the movement will come. Some communities are now reaping the benefit of reclamation programmes with the children now speaking languages almost lost. However, some communities are not as fortunate with language speakers dying before it can be passed on. We must act now to stop more loss. When you have language, you need to share the responsibility of using language with others and not bear the brunt of the workload that comes with having the language. If people want ceremony, then teach them the ceremony and have them do it. So be courageous, be a leader and SPEAK IT

Te Hui Taketake a Te Puna Tahua Toa Rotorua, July 2024 Food sovereignty and security Speakers: Kārena and Kasey Bird (Aotearoa) Unapologetic in their journey to be successful in the food industry Kārena and Kasey shared their story about starting work in the corporate world (accounting and audit) because that’s what others told them to do, to then following their dreams aligned to their love of food and what brings them joy. At the end of the day, everyone needs to eat, so this vocation was future proof! A great comment “When you do something you love, you never work a day in your life. BUT, you also never have a day off”. So figure out when you are productive and use that time wisely, then give yourself time to rest to build back up to that productive time. Check your competition and find ways to be smarter than them to increase your opportunity for success. Surround yourself with like minded people who believe in what you are doing, its about the outcome you are trying to achieve. Always have a way out, never find yourself in a position where someone else holds all of the power. Make decisions that are based on your values and never be afraid to say no if things don’t align with your values. Choose the advice you follow and leave the advice that doesn’t because it’s better to make you own decision and fail than to take advice from others and feel like you have failed. Avoid food waste by planning, sharing and recycling. Food security is something Kasey and Kārena have grown up with living in Maketu, from kai grown in their gardens, foraged from their surroundings and collected from the sea. Sharing what they grow, collect and cook and planning for meals to make the most of what you have brings about food security. Planning What do I already have, what is in season, what can I collect, grow, forage, what is easy. Keep your meal planning simple, a protein, carb and vegetable. Have good condiments and sauces or introduce new flavours to change up your meals. Share Not everyone is able to do what you can do so share what you have by dropping food in to people, sharing what you collect and grow, have meals together and share the preparation duties with those you share meals with. Recycle Turn your food scraps into food, compost, feed a pig.

Te Hui Taketake a Te Puna Tahua Toa #toa24 Session summary: Toitu te tiriti Speaker: Jamie Tuuta Mā te huruhuru ka rere te manu - Adorn the bird with feathers so it may fly We are immortal, we are still here, we have long memories. We can’t ignore the impact of colonisation as we continue to clash with the law that is not of this land. We are self-determining people, we can transform, we can re-indigenise to decolonise. The Māori economy is growing at a faster rate than the national GDP, so the Governments greatest investment should be to invest in us, invest with us. 200 years of colonisation has seen every generation have their own fight. Land wars, land marches, claims and settlements, and now the activation movement with Toitu te Tiriti. But to lead people into battle, you need to have Confidence, Knowledge, Humility and Connections. Confidence Be unapologetically Māori, unapologetically indigenous and have confidence to be who you are. Dream without fear, without limitation because it’s hard to succeed in a world you are not confident in. Prepare your whole self, your mind, your body and soul, and surround yourself with people and things that bring you energy (as opposed to take your energy) to take on the fight. Knowledge.  Have a full understanding of what you are fighting for and be prepared to make the hard decisions and sacrifices, knowing you can’t please everyone all of the time. Call out bad behaviour when people are saying “you’re one of those lucky Māori, one of them smart Māori, a good Māori, but you’re different” but check your own bias and recognise your privilege. Humility Everyone has fears and doubts so find someone you trust and can be vulnerable with for your wellbeing. Leadership brings great responsibility, so you need to live by the principles of that responsibility. Leadership is not self-perpetuating; you need to do the mahi / work. Connections: Be connected to our people, connected to our land, connected to our culture. Will you be the manu?

Te Hui Taketake a Te Puna Tahua Toa Global Indigenous Business Summit Rotorua 2024 In the coming weeks and months we will be posting up a summary of each of the sessions from the Summit, sharing our view of what was heard and providing you with the opportunity to add what you may have heard. Let's not let lose the momentum that we created by being together, keep connected and keep the kōrero, conversations going. This week's post is about our opening plenary - Indigenous leadership across a global portfolio and sharing the experience of leading major government portfolios, bringing indigenous rights and beliefs to the forefront and leading globally as an indigenous leader. Speakers: Joe Deere, MLS, ADM Keith Conn (Canada), Destiny Dewis A panel that brought diversity of thought as global leadership to our Summit, from the Cherokee nation, the largest tribe in the world, to the political landscape of Canada and the two indigenous cultures of Australia. Our history, our stories, our culture, our people, while much is the same there are also many differences. The effect of colonisation on our people's health and wellbeing is well documented and yet we are still here, we aint going nowhere. We are now educated and working in the colonisers space (with an indigenous mindset) yet we continue to look to the coloniser for advice to heal us. We can heal ourselves; we have the answers. We just need to look to each other, work for each other, trust each other, heal each other. We need to work with and in our communities, provide culturally safe and appropriate spaces for those who have yet to use the tools of today for their health and wellbeing. Move away from the deficit mindset and hold decision makers to account. If an agreement is in place, make sure all parties are living up to that agreement. If cultural competencies standards are put in place by Government agencies, then make sure they are tracking and reporting on these. Advice to your 20-year-old self: Be AWESOME Aware – be aware of your surroundings and the environment you are moving into and within Wellbeing – invest in your health and wellbeing Elders – spend time with your kaumatua and kuia, your elders before that time runs out, learn from them Seek – seek out a good support network, get a mentor, get a coach Open – go into situations with an open heart, open mind and be open to new experiences Make – make decisions not just for you but for your community and the future generation Experience – your experience matters, be confident in who you are in order to be yourself Be AWESOME National Congress of American Indians NAFOA AFOA Canada Ben Eisikovich, CA Destiny Dewis

Te Hui Taketake a Te Puna Tahua toa Global Indigenous Business Summit 25-27 July 2024, Rotorua Aotearoa Day one, plenary one - Indigenous leadership across a global portfolio, Joe Deere, MLS, Destiny Dewis ADM Keith Conn sharing experiences of leading major programmes to bring indigenous rights and beliefs to the forefront and indigenous leadership. So many mike drop moments from our iwi taketake, indigenous leaders from the US, Australia and Canada. Noting the similarities and differences in response to colonisation, the cause and effect and the knowledge that as iwi taketake, it is we who can heal ourselves. In leadership you need to be yourself, be confident, be proud of who you are and your culture. Others have paved the way, opened the doors now it's your turn. Always remember that your greatest learnings are from being in the moment, being one with the environment, being with your people and elders and taking care of your health and wellbeing.

Te Hui Taketake a Te Puna Tahua toa Global Indigenous Business Summit 25-27 July 2024, Rotorua Aotearoa As we head in to summit proper, we started today with whakatau with the support of Ngāti Whakaue and allowing our attendees to be welcomed to the Summit and then share kai and kōrero with each other. The mayor, Tania Tapsell also welcomed our manuhiri to Rotorua and talked to the history of the city, the signing of agreements, the importance of culture to this city and in being brave. Our Maunga partner, Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Chair, Tinashe Kamangira FCA talked about the work CAANZ are doing around cultural awareness and reconciliation along with the work they are doing to increase Māori, Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders into the profession. All of this professionally moderated by Kahurangi Milne and Chey Milne our magnificent MC's. And this was before we got into our first plenary discussion and eight breakout sessions - so much sharing and learning.

Te Hui Taketake a Te Puna Tahua Toa Global indigenous business summit Rotorua, 25-27 July 2024 Te Mākete - marketplace To grow our indigenous economy globally we need to connect and trade with each other, keep that value in the indigenous community, create that indigenous circular economy. We have a number of pakihi Māori from throughout Aotearoa New Zealand in attendance at the Summit with their products available for purchase to do just that. While enjoying the kōrero at the Summit, take time connect and trade with our pakihi Māori in the Grand Hall and check in on our Summit partners and find out what they do and how they can help you. Let's grow the indigenous economy! Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Callaghan Innovation New Zealand Trade and Enterprise Tourism New Zealand Xero Tauhara North No.2 Trust Te Puni Kōkiri RotoruaNZ Thermal Explorer Regional Events Fund

A reminder that we have our Pōwhiri today - see you there.