Dr Waireti Roestenburg (PhD Psychology, Māori Cycologist)
Dr Waireti Roestenburg (Ngāti Kahungunu ki Wairoa, Ngāti Pāhauwera, Rongomai Wahine, Ngāuhi nui- tonu, Dutch, Irish, English…), is a Principal Academic and Programme Lead for the Degree in Social Health and Wellbeing at the Open Polytechnic. Dr Waireti has 30 years of experience as a wairua-centric healing practitioner. Her practice, academic and research expertise lies in re-vitalising Māori, Indigenous and human wellbeing through advancing wairua (life-source) approaches to holistic mental-total wellness.
Her approach synergises four healing/knowledge systems – decades of wairua-centric lived experience, training and practice (te reo, tikanga, karanga, karakia, waiata, māramatanga, mātauranga, mirimiri…); enlivened whakapapa as revealed knowledge; Original teaching (tohunga/tohuna/elders); and obsidian-edged (Indigenous and other) empirical scholarship and research, including post-doctoral.
Waireti delivers a range of taonga-based, wairua-centric services, undertakes research, applies for and manages funding, performs, publishes and presents.
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