Mahi a Atua is a Maori wellbeing framework based around storytelling. Grounded in a Maori world view, this approach is designed to foster transformation and systemic change and indigenise practices, institutions and personal and professional spaces.
The knowledge, messages and principles within purakau (Maori creation stories) spark conversations aimed at promoting wellbeing, consciousness raising and healing. By drawing on the customs and stories of Maori atua, we learn how ancestors interpreted the world, giving us a pathway to understanding, connection and change in our lives and the lives of others. Through telling our own life stories, alongside traditional purakau, we can reimagine how we live in the world and navigate challenges, based in Maori knowledge.