OUR MISSION, VISION & VALUES
Our Mission: Expanding What Is Possible for French Polynesia
The Wayfinding Institute mobilizes the Polynesian diaspora, local knowledge, and global expertise to help the people of French Polynesia explore credible futures and shape the path forward with greater clarity, confidence, and self-determination.
OUR MISSION
Mobilizing Our People, Knowledge, and Global Expertise
We connect the resources of the Polynesian diaspora with local knowledge and international expertise to expand and preserve the future possibilities available to French Polynesia.
Reveal the knowledge and capacity already present across our global community.
We work to better understand where Polynesians live, what knowledge and experience they carry, and how they want to contribute to the future of the fenua.
Bring people, ideas, relationships, and expertise back into conversation.
We create pathways for the diaspora, people in French Polynesia, researchers, institutions, and trusted allies to exchange knowledge and collaborate across distance.
Create the intellectual conditions for Polynesians to explore credible futures.
Through research, dialogue, and collective inquiry, we help broaden the possibilities our people can evaluate—and ultimately choose for themselves.
OUR VISION
A French Polynesia Prepared to Shape Its Own Future
We envision a future in which Polynesians everywhere can contribute to an informed, connected, and self-determined fenua.
We imagine a French Polynesia that is prepared, informed, and confident in shaping its own future.
A future where the people of the fenua can examine credible possibilities before decisions are made for them.
A future where Polynesians living across the world remain connected to home and can contribute their knowledge, talents, relationships, and resources.
A future where rigorous research, public understanding, and informed dialogue expand the choices available to our people.
A future shaped not only by the forces surrounding the Pacific, but by the vision, capacity, and collective intelligence of Polynesians themselves.
The future of our fenua should not simply be imagined for us. It should be imagined by us.