This working paper traces my development of the Pū-Rā-Ka-Ū analysis framework in Hauraki between 2022 and 2026. Pū-Rā-Ka-Ū is a Māori relational 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).
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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