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Part 2 of 2. For our discussion with Dr. Qurratulain Hasan. Dr. Hasan talks about the issues around genetic data privacy and data sharing. The concept of epigenetics and what the future of genetics looks like for the world.

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Dr. Tia Neha, Senior Lecturer in Māori and Indigenous Psychology at Victoria University of Wellington, speaks about community driven research with the example of her own doctoral studies within Māori communities, the importance of language, culture and relationships, the difference in techniques between indigenous research and western research and their place in science as a whole.
Dr. Tia Neha's description of the Waiata (song) at the start and end of the episode
"Mā Wai Rā – Kō Henare Te Owai te Kaitito. Nō Te Aitanga a Mate, Te Whānau o Hiruharama me te Whānau o Te Aowera.

This waiata tangi (song of lament) was composed by my great grand uncle. He was my paternal great grandmother’s – Piriote (nee) Te Owai (brother) and his name was Henare Te Owai. This side of my whānau come from the Ngāti Porou tribe, the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand. He was well sought after and commissioned by Sir Apirana Ngata (a New Zealand Māori statesman who also features on the NZ $50 note) to revitalise and retain cultural performance aspects of Māori culture in Northland.

During that time my Koro lost his close friend Reverend Pine Tamehore and at the time it would take him a long time to get back to the East Coast for his tangi (Māori funeral). During his grief he composed this waiata tangi in his friend’s honour as he knew he would miss his tangi.

This waiata depicts the emotions of loss and leadership in the homelands to who will be the future leaders for Ngāti Porou from the East Coast of the North Island and in particular for the whānau from Te Aitanga a Mate, Te Whānau o Hiruharama me te Whānau o Te Aowera.

The waiata has seven verses and the waiata has become popularised in many events that take place in many Māori settings. The main verse is generally sung at these events. See below.

Mā wai rā. Who will tend

Te marae i waho nei? To the marae here?

Mā te tika, mā te pono, Truth, honesty

Me te aroha e. And love will."

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Aotearoa New Zealand celebrated Mental Health Awareness week 2022 from the 28th of September to the 2nd of October. To pay tribute to the work done by people who do not fit directly under the traditional psychologist, psychiatrists and therapist roles, we had 3 interviews with guests covering different styles of support work and mental health resources available to communities.
This episode contains discussions on mental health. If you are struggling please reach out for help. Useful contacts for some countries can be found here. https://www.helpguide.org/find-help.htm
Rob Cartwright joined us to speak about Bravely, a global, mental health app trying to bridge the gap between therapy and 'just using google'. The second interview is with Jasmin Shoukri, a mental health coach in Germany, who spoke about the similarities and differences between support work in New Zealand and Germany before talking about her own coaching. Lastly, we come back to the studio with Abbey Busch, the Education and Youth Development Coordinator of Youthline Wellington to talk about the roles they play and services they offer with regards to youth mental health support work in Wellington in particular and Aotearoa in general.
As mentioned in the episode all proceeds go to Youthline Wellington:
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Again, we would like to thank our guests for the work they do and finding time to come on the podcast. For more information:
Bravely: https://www.bravely.io/
Jasmin Shoukri: instagram, linktr.ee
Youthline: Website, instagram

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The criminalization of multiple recreational drugs in the 1970s also led to a reduction in the research on them. Research on psychedelics (example, LSD and magic mushrooms) had previously shown to be beneficial in certain mental health treatments. In the past 20 years, clinical and pre-clinical research on psychedelics has picked up again. Professor Bart Ellenbroek, Head of the Behavioural Neurogenetics lab at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, joins us to give us an introduction on psychedelics drugs and what the most recent research on them suggests for the future of mental health.
Psychedelics are a subclass of hallucinogenic drugs whose primary effect is to trigger non-ordinary states of consciousness (known as psychedelic experiences or "trips").

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Dr. Richard Johnson, Lead of The Indian in Me project and Senior Lecturer in the School of Education Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia, talks to us about people coming from hyphenated ethnicities. Using his own example as an Anglo-Indian (people with British and Indian backgrounds) he goes through the challenges of identity faced by people from similar cultures, the influence of dominant cultures in erasing complete sections of their family history and how The Indian in Me project aims to bring to light these stories. He is joined by his grandson Finley Johnson, who has considered himself triple hyphenated (Anglo-Indian-Maori) and is a cross-cultural researcher focusing on Maori Well-being and Clinical Psychology student, in Aotearoa New Zealand. Together they go through the similarities across cultures in terms of familial connectivity and how bringing these stories to light is important to identity.
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