“E fofō e le alamea le alamea” - SĀMOAN Proverb
The solutions for our issues lie within our own communities.
WE COMBINE
Creative, collaborative leadership and indigenous participatory approaches to build social connectedness that enables youth development, aiga and community wellbeing, executing organisational projects and equipping people with the skills to navigate complexity.
WE ARE EXPERTS
In creating social impact using engagement and communication, Pacific and Indigenous knowledge, youth development, community intelligence, building networks, creative leadership and systemic and organisational change.
WE OFFER
Māori & Pacific Cultural Competence/Confidence Coaching, Facilitation, Research and Evaluation, Consulting, Service / Programme co-design, Events, training and workshops on Youth Development, Youth Voice and more.
OUr aiga: family/team
HOW WE WORK
The Vā-Relationships and
Collective Leadership
“Vā is the space between, the betweenness, not empty space, not space that separates but space that relates, the space that is context, giving meaning to things.”
- Albert Wendt
We believe in caring for the Vā, and coming from communal, Indigenous Pacific and Māori cultures, we deeply understand community, peer-to-peer connections and collective leadership to address challenges.
Talanoa
“FOFOLA E FALA KAE TALANOA E KĀINGA” ROLL OUT THE MATS SO THE FAMILY CAN DIALOGUE.
- TONGAN PROVERB
This is an invitation for people to talanoa, to listen deeply, to present, debate and come to a collective understanding on a way to move towards collective success.
Co-Design
“O LE TELE O SULU E MAUA AI FIGOTA”THROUGH COLLABORATION, THE MOST DIFFICULT THINGS CAN BE OVERCOME.
- SĀMOAN PROVERB
Getting the right people in the room will bring clarity on the challenge and through multiple talanoa, we co-design bespoke solutions to complex issues that can be implemented and adapted.
Creativity
TALANOA
social change
OUR TAUTUA - SERVICES
FACILITATION
We hold space for authentic Talanoa-dialogue. We walk alongside you to ‘whakarongo’ listen deeply with all of your senses and map out a plan of attack to execute your strategy. With years of experience as facilitators, educators and IAP2 practitioners, we are sticklers for process & details…it’s the little things!
IMPACT STORYTELLING, RESEARCH AND EVALUATION
We care about people’s lived experiences, evidence, data, trends, facts and science.
As sense-makers, we connect the dots and deliver actionable insights to help you build and sustain success.
ENGAGEMENT
Think, a team of Avengers: with vast community and governmental networks and engagement experience, we will tautoko your mahi in amplifying community voice in your service, framework and programme design.
Our suite of engagement approaches will help give you insights from the communities and people you are serving and how to authentically partner with communities to co-determine ideas and activities.
“Our diverse skill sets and experiences allow us to work with many different people, groups and organisations, from the community, to local and central government and large corporations.
These are some of the clients our Cross-Polynate aiga has had the privilege of working with.
GET IN TOUCH
Get in touch and find out more about who we are, what we do and services we can offer; feel free to leave a message and we will be in touch as soon as we can.
+(64) 027-464-1754 info@crosspolynate.co.nz
Auckland / Wellington / Christchurch — New Zealand