Lesson series
Pasifika Culture and Values in Care
Pacific culture is rich, diverse, relational, and deeply connected to family, spirituality, identity, language, and belonging.
This course introduces key Pacific values and how they can shape care and support. It is designed for non-Pacific health and disability workers who want to build cultural awareness, confidence, and respectful practice.
Pacific peoples are not one single group. Each person, family, community, church, island group, and generation may hold different values, expectations, and ways of doing things.
Cultural safety starts with humility: ask respectfully, listen well, avoid assumptions, and let the person and their family guide what matters.
In this course, we will look at practical ways to support dignity, connection, choice, trust, and collective wellbeing in care.
Nau mai, welcome. Let’s begin.
Format
Online
Course
Format
Text/Read
Duration
30 minutes
Price
$ 12.50
Lesson series
Why this course is important?
Pacific peoples in Aotearoa continue to experience health inequities and barriers to safe, timely, and culturally responsive care.
Care feels safer and more respectful when people are understood in the context of what matters to them. For many Pacific peoples, this may include family, faith, culture, language, identity, community, service, respect, and belonging.
This course helps kaimahi understand how Pacific values can shape wellbeing, communication, decision-making, and support.
It supports practice that builds trust, avoids assumptions, strengthens connection, and helps Pacific people and their families feel seen, heard, respected, and safe in care.
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