This thesis examines metaphysics in order to re-present Māori and indigenous
understandings of Being and deconstruct the notion of mental illness. A holistic …

For more than two decades, components of Māori knowledges in the form of Māori words
and concepts have been part of health policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Health policy that …

Discussions about indigenous philosophy are always difficult because of identities, chief
among these being: what is the primary assumption that coalesces the varied philosophies …

Takatapui (Maori LGBTIQ+) challenge static notions of relationality and belonging or
whanaungatanga for Maori. Explorations of Maori and LGBTIQ+ identity can often polarise …

This chapter sets the scene for an emphasis on 'becoming'for our youngest children living in
a twenty-first-century global world. Taking the view that becoming (or Bildung) is now viewed …

There are significant challenges that face Māori students and supervisors as a “doctoral
team.” Perhaps the most fundamental of these is that there is a metaphysics at work in …

Martin Heidegger's later thinking is replete with the intimate relationship between human
being and the gods. Humans and the gods are those illuminated by the lightning flash of …

We offer a conceptual analysis of how Canadian counsellor education and counselling
psychology can respond to colonial history through the teaching of its own history. Drawing …