Ō Rangaranga with Selena Taniora

Ko Selina Taniora tōku ingoa. He uri ahau nō Ngāti Kahu ki Whangaroa, Te Rarawa Taranaki, Aiutaki me Manaiki Te Kuki Airini. Ko taku tūranga he Regional Practise Advisor in the office of the Chief Social Worker i mahi, ā e noho ana au ki Whangārei ki Te Tai Tokerau. 

We've been going through krero around mihimihi and actually breaking that down. What I've really enjoyed is hearing some of the tikanga that sits within mihimihi and, and the structure which has helped me to develop my own mihimihi that reflects who I am, but also the kaupapa of the hui. We've got different rōpū with the different, um, pūkenga, and mātauranga and reo. So, I think taking that time to actually whakawhanaungatanga as a big rōpū, is really empowering. And we talked to some of these people via e-mail or on teams with our mahi hats on, but actually connecting with the person, not the kaimahi I think it's really important, opportunities for more kaimahi to, to come and experience something like this. 

Noho Marae is an experience on its own and and a whole journey. I would love to see that continue and just learning more about the rohe and where we are and would be awesome as well. So, for those of us that are on our reo journey, the environment is safe for us to be vulnerable. You know, often when we wear our mahi potae, we've got to stick to that role. But here we, you know, we can reveal our, our āwangawanga, our vulnerabilities, our kōrero and I feel like that's something that strengthens the kaimahi within Oranga Tamariki, that contributes to building culturally competent organisation.