Te Toi Ahorangi Strategy Public Engagement | Page 12

HE POU ORANGA
TANGATA
WHENUA
He Pou Oranga Tangata
Whenua pr otects tangata
whenua values, knowledge
systems and institutions,
and describes the sources
of mana and pathways that
lead to Toi Ora.
Te Toi Ahorangi is grounded in He Pou
Oranga Tangata Whenua, an indigenous
worldview of health and wellbeing as
determined by the iwi of Te Moana ā Toi.

He Pou Oranga Tangata Whenua is
reignited in this Strategy, anchoring the
ecological and spiritual nature of a tangata
whenua worldview at the forefront of our
thinking, planning, funding and decision-
making.

Toi O
Ngā Pou Mana o Io, the five cornerstones
of He Pou Oranga Tangata Whenua - Mana
Atua, Mana Tūpuna, Mana Whenua, Mana
Moana and Mana Tangata - are cultural
markers of our worldview, that orient us
towards our ancestral teachings and
knowledge systems that can support us to
lead flourishing lives. Guided by our atua
and tūpuna, and in ways that are in
alignment with our own māramataka,
rongoā, kawa and tikanga.

By seeing our world through our own eyes,
we are able to articulate how optimum
spiritual, mental, social and physical
wellbeing can be realised when we support
our people to exercise their mana, allowing
their mauri to flourish.
mai
mai i i te
te r'gi
r'gi ki
ki te
te whenu
whenu
from
from the
the sky
sky to to the
the earth,
earth, the
the eart