Tū Māia Case Study - David Curd

I think the main learning was it's, it's around, it's around communication, it's about it's around being together. It's around that aspect of community and things of a from a Te Ao Māori worldview versus a Western one, which is more individual.  So it's more of a collective, I suppose.

Bringing it back into work for me was an easy process. You are able to open people's open conversations when people have fixed views, you're able to offer them some sort of different outlooks on life. And they're the sort of things that you do learn in a programme like Tū Māia.  It allows you more knowledge to be able to challenge those but a little bit of knowledge is still not enough. Tū Māia opens the door.

But the the really good thing, I suppose that from it is you learn the harm that was done through colonisation. You learn that actually, and you wonder what if we'd actually embraced the Te Ao Māori worldview? Where would we sit as a country now, as a collective and a collection of people, as opposed to a bunch of individuals sort of like trying to hoe the waka in different careers, you know, trying to just gain for themselves. If we had only gone out and learnt rather than conquered, where would we be…