Faith and Hone Taimona will open our summit with a karakia and a workshop.

Tuu te po, tuu te ao, tuu ka maranga ki te whei ao, ki te ao marama

Introducing Hone and Faith Taimona, who live in south Hokianga, famous for the landing of the legendry ancestor Kupe, who traversed the oceans to fulfil the prophecy of Te Ika a Maui.

Hone has an in-depth understanding of Tikanga cultural practices, while Faith has knowledge and practice in the traditional healing realms of Rongoa. Together, within a shared collective movement, they have helped to develop and return the traditional healing system within the Hauora Hokianga Hospital. It services a community that largely whakapapa back to Kupe and the many ancestral canoes who came from the Pacific Ocean.

Family Constellations translates to "Whakapapa te Oranga" which means to acknowledge and create wellbeing within our genealogy, past, present and future. The use of Tikanga cultural practices has survived through generational impacts of colonisation, and the ongoing resurgence of traditional and cultural practices has created powerful movements of realising the wellbeing and healing powers in ancestral footprints of knowledge, that serve in an enhancing manner, the present generations of descendants.

Faith and Hone will speak about these connections and relationships to all things and how "Whakapapa te Oranga" Family Constellations is helping to reconnect and correct "Belonging, Order, and Balance" within the whanau lines.