Interviewees

Trevor Moeke

Trevor Moeke, is a Maori elder and community leader who is a key figure working for Maori community development, higher education, language revitalization and land rights. Trevor travels worldwide representing Maori interests, working with indigenous peoples to create networks and share knowledge.

Videos featuring Trevor Moeke

  • Kotahitanga: The Maori Word for Oneness

    Elder, community leader and activist Trever Moeke explains how the Maori word for oneness expresses values of unity, reciprocity and respect. Trever describes how these values of 'kotahitanga' are embedded in the Maori worldview.

    (2 min 22 sec)

  • A Few Questions

    Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke tells us that to discover one's own interconnectedness, we have only to ask the questions we might not ask until the end of life: Is the world a better place for my being here? Have I benefited those that I've loved? These questions inevitably commit us to agendas and systems bigger than our individual selves, and produce the experience of interconnection.

    (1 min 55 sec)

  • Global Opportunities

    Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke draws upon the history of the first Maori settlers to New Zealand to reframe globalization as a tremendous opportunity. With tenacity and self-awareness, humanity can pull through the stormy seas of globalization to manifest a new and more cooperative global system.

    (2 min 44 sec)

  • An Indigenous Contribution

    Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke describes the philosophical and ethical contribution of indigenous cultures to global oneness.

    (55 sec)

  • Complete Interview

    Elder, community leader and activist Trevor Moeke describes his work and perspective on oneness, drawing from Maori culture, language, history and cosmology. Trevor explains how the Maori's “people-first” approach to conflict resolution, as well as their traditions of collective decision-making, self-determination, ritual and cooperation in the face of adversity, stand to make important contributions to the global political arena. Above all, Trevor insists that globalization challenges all cultures to look within and bring forward the most authentic and sincere expression of self-knowledge.

    (21 min 23 sec)
"And so the paradox is that, even though of ourselves we can achieve many things, in the end, we need others to achieve greater and greater things."
From
Kotahitanga: The Maori Word for Oneness