ABSTRACT
We met when we both worked within New Zealand’s state-funded health system in Tauranga Moana in the Bay of Plenty. Our relationship developed in a wider network of relationships, MƗori and pƗkehƗ (see the Glossary at end of this chapter), professional and/or personal. For nearly thirty years, we have been developing our connection as tƗngata whenua and manuhiri in respect to our work (mostly Sarah Calvert’s) and ourselves. We began this journey as people, although culturally and professionally different, working with adults, children and families, in the same organizational space. We have come to regard the way the relationship – both professional (multi-layered) and personal (generational, networked) – has developed as a way of thinking about what occurs in cultural supervision. This chapter is part of our conversation about this process.
