Māori Wisdom, Modern World with Dr Hinemoa Elder
About this Conversation
How can we embody values like manaakitanga (mutual respect and care for each other), kaitiakitanga (guardianship for our planet) and whanaungatanga (kinship and connectivity) as we seek to heal and renew? In our first Wiser Conversation with a native New Zealander we host Dr Hinemoa Elder, psychiatrist, researcher, Māori language advocate and author of the upcoming book on indigenous wisdom, ‘Aroha’.
Dr Hinemoa Elder
Dr Hinemoa Elder is of Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupouri, Te Rarawa and Ngāpuhi descent and an advocate for use of Te Reo Māori, the Māori language. She is a mother of two adult children. She is a Fellow of the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists and has been a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist for more than 10 years working in youth forensic and neuropsychiatry as well as the Mother Baby and Acute inpatient units at Starship Children’s Hospital Auckland.
Hinemoa Elder is the author of ‘Aroha’, a book featuring reflections on indigenous wisdom embedded in whakataukī (proverbial sayings) as tools for our health and wellbeing.
Why you should listen?
Hinemoa is also the Māori Strategic Leader for the Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) for the Ageing Brain based at University of Auckland. She continues to be involved in research regarding traumatic brain injury, stroke and dementia.
She has a PhD (Massey University, 2012) and NZ Health Research Council Eru Pomare Post-Doctoral Fellowship that developed theory and a novel recovery approach grounded in Te Ao Māori, for Māori with traumatic brain injury, a condition recognized locally and internationally as over-represented in incarcerated populations.
