Ko Wai Au
COLLABORATORS:
Manatu Hauora, League of Live Illustrators
Empathy Game
Ko Wai Au is an original concept and facilitated empathy game created with Te Pou Hauora Māori (Manatu Hauora) to help increase equity in healthcare.
It's designed to be used by cultural educators and health practitioners, putting the lived experiences of Māori and Pacific people at the centre of conversations about how the health system works, and where it creates barriers to access. The ultimate aim is health equity.
How it works
The game uses illustrated character stories to help participants step into someone else's world.
Participants read a character's story, consider how a health challenge might affect them and their whānau, identify the barriers they'd face in the system, and work out how to respond. The process surfaces things that statistics alone can't: the lived everyday reality of someone's life, and where the health system misses it.
Community Developed
Each character was developed directly with Māori communities across Aotearoa and live-illustrated in situ.
There are seven characters in total. Each with their own health challenge, and each facing a different barrier to accessing health care.
