POUHINE is a Mana Wāhine healing approach that returns the sound of a wahine to herself, through oro, karanga, waiata and/or silence.
In the context of research, it is a weaving of their eternal sound, their voices back into being, and the telling and hearing of sisters’ life stories.
This is a space in which I am able to do some of that.
Naumai, haere mai
This working paper traces the development of the Pū-Rā-Ka-Ū analysis framework (Wirihana, 2012) in Hauraki between 2022 and 2026. Pū-Rā-Ka-Ū is a framework that reads people’s lived experiences (pūrākau) through unlayering the word’s elements: Pū (origins), Rā (enlightenment), Ka (past, present, future), and Ū (sustaining solutions).
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23443338
The paper shows what changed in the framework with each project. Research on housing poverty and violence gave it the rākau. Work with survivors of abuse in state care and with Hauraki communities after Cyclone Gabrielle gave it the spiral form. Research with wāhine from gang whānau gave it colour mapping. In practice at Te Whāriki Manawāhine o Hauraki, the four phases have become mauri stages for measuring change with whānau.
Moyle, P. (2026). Growing Pū-Rā-Ka-Ū: A working paper on the development of the framework in Hauraki research and practice, 2022 to 2026. Pouhine Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23443338
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