Throughout, however, we have continued to honour others and retained our deep integration with nature. Now, against a backdrop of environmental threats, the world needs our way of being, our ‘mōmō’, more than ever. Individual transformation My personal story of transformation begins here in the Pacific.
Nooroa, my granddad, left the beautiful island of Atiu in the Southern Cook Islands and came to Aotearoa New Zealand in the 1930s. When he left Atiu the average temperature would have been around 24oC. It must have been a shock to settle in Taupō, in the interior of the North Island of New Zealand, where the average temperature was just over 10oC.