https://open.spotify.com/episode/423FkBVyiRvuH7BuKe53I7
In this episode of Be Bold and break the Mould, I’ll introduce you to Ian Ivey, who has been a good friend of mine for many years.
Ian is a firework of creative ideas, a guru in marketing and business strategies, but most of all, he is a great lecturer. He rekindles the spark of innovation, boosts the self-esteem and enthusiasm in everyone he meets.
He loves and respects nature and works closely with the native tribes in his home country New Zealand. He told me that, in his opinion, one of the most fascinating aspects of Maori culture and tradition is that their Whakapapa (ancestry). Whakapapa connects them with every living thing – plants, animals, humans, microbes, and everything else that is alive.
To Ian, it is something most humans forgot as they became disconnected from their Whakapapa. And only view ancestry in terms of human relatives disconnected from everything else on the planet.
“This leads to a place that is quite scary and could eventually lead to the extinction of the human race.
We overpopulate the planet, use resources up at a rate much higher than they are replaced.
As a result, polluting the land, sea, air, and water generates increasing amounts of toxic legacies nuclear waste, persistent chemical wastes like PFAs, heavy metals, 80,000 non-tested chemicals added to just about every product we use, plastic waste building up everywhere, including in our food chains. I am becoming more immersed in the indigenous culture here in N.Z. It teaches me so much about the fundamental basics of sustainability, i.e. we are connected to and interact with every other entity and the environment within which we live.”
To find out more about Ian Ivey or in terms of traditional Maori Rongoa (health and wellness), here are a few links:
www.facebook.com/rongoanapapatuanuku.
(Ian’s admin was hacked, so he’s been shut out of the page, but the journey continues at this link
Rongoa Na Papatuanuku 2015 | Facebook. And over 5 years of posts are still at the old URL).
He Kohikohinga – A Maori Health Knowledge Base
https://www.moh.govt.nz/notebook/nbbooks.nsf/0/2D14F7AF20E63F554C2565D7000DE051/$file/84925M.pdf
‘Maori Healing and Herbal. New Zealand Ethnobotanical Sourcebook.’
Murdoch Riley. https://vikingsevenseas.co.nz/products/maori-healing-and-herbal
A simple
holistic overview of Maori health and wellness - https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/documents/pages/maori_health_model_tewhare.pdf
And last but not least, Ian’s Contact Details:
Tel: +64 21 754 704
Email: ian.ivey@pobox.com
Physical: P.O. Box 359, Mangonui 0442, Northland, New Zealand
Skype: ianivey
