(via Lenski.com)- Whakawhanaungatanga is a Māori process for establishing relationships. In the following interview I explore the tradition, identity, trust-building, and conflict resolution with New Zealanders Hilary Unwin and Pereri Hathaway.

A few weeks ago I published a post about the value of shared experience for increasing empathy during conflict s.... After I published that post, New Zealand Human Rights Commission mediator Hilary Unwin wrote me about a Māori tradition called whakawhanaungatanga, which is a process for establishing relationships.

Whakawhanaungatanga is a way for Māori to discover connections between themselves and the people they’re talking to. Hilary told me that she uses it in some of her mediation work to establish a mood of trust and openness at the start of a mediation.

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