May 04, 2022
Wayfaring in Te Waipounamu Wiggles-style
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A programme using voyaging traditions to teach entrepreneurship to rangatahi has won the backing of South Island whānau ora commissioning agency Te Pūtahitanga o Te Waipounamu.
Flying Geese chief executive Faumuina Felolini Maria Tafuna’i says Wero consists of a one-day in-school wananga followed by an eight week online course with business mentors.
She says it’s about honouring Māori and Pasifika ancestors as great innovators, traders and navigators and taking those ways of being and knowledge systems into entrepreneurship.
“Our team, we’re like the Polynesian Wiggles that get off the bus and we’re like hype and co-hosts are young so we take them through wayfinding, which is the framework I designed with Hoturoa Barclay-Kerr, looking at entrepreneurship and the Island of Success ends who’s on your waka and what could go wrong on the Island of Doom and whenua, what are the research questions you should ask, and also how you are guided by your values compass,” Ms Tafuna’i says.
Te Pūtahitanga support will allow Flying Geese to teach schools from Whakatū to Gore.