TALANOA

One of our core values as Lagi-Maama Academy & Consultancy is to embrace and be empowered by our Indigenous knowledge and practice of talanoa or “talking critically yet harmoniously.”

Our ancestors actively practiced talanoa, as a decision-making tool that helped, to refine the best and permanence in creative and innovative thinking throughout our wider Moana Oceania region. We draw on and utilise our collective inheritance of knowledges and skills from our ancestors, which have been passed down through our own bodies and systems of Indigenous ways of knowing, seeing and doing, where ‘talking critically yet harmoniously’ has always been part of our status quo.

These knowledge and skills are composed in culture and communicated in language, as social vessels.