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WORKPLACE APPLICATION OF MĀORI VALUES AND BELIEFS
KAITIAKITANGA
Responsibility for overseeing – guardianship
People should acknowledge the mauri (life force)
of resources they work with by preferring the best materials and practices rather than the cheapest. This helps to ensure safety at all stages of care, which values quality over price. It is about watching over or protecting somebody or something.
Workplace application:
• Understand that the resources and practices that best meet the total needs of the person are to be used.
• Demonstrate behaviours that reflect their responsibility for safely looking after a person and their whānau. This includes supporting people in cultural safety as well as in a physically, socially, emotionally and mentally safe way.
• Ensure that the person and their whānau know exactly what is happening and what resources
and supports are available to them. For example, advocacy services, whānau rooms, Māori Chaplain, Māori providers and other support services.
• Clearly introduce yourself, your organisation and your role/service.
• Ensure names are pronounced correctly, or ask when unsure.
• Ensure all information is given clearly and is understood by the person and their whānau.
MAURI ORA
Life force, positive energy, stimulation, wellbeing and vitality
Mauri is the positive energy, attitude and statements of a person, of a place or of an object that encourages, energises, invokes and stimulates wellness and wellbeing in those environments and others that may encounter them. Mauri is a life force of energy and the source of all things.
Workplace application:
• Staff members understand that for Mauri Ora to be supported there must be a balance between the emotional, spiritual, cultural, physical and social health.
• The workplace has policies and procedures to enhance the person’s health and wellbeing.
PSC FW - Māori Cultural Awareness Kete 1 | Published 2017
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