title: Alternative approaches to well-being and engagement in Vanuatu.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article describes some innovative approaches to understanding, measuring and attributing value to traditional wisdom in Vanuatu.
  
  
  METHODS
  The article uses decolonising methodologies to privilege indigenous perspectives. In particular, the study features the use of endogenous practices, such as sand drawing, as a vehicle for facilitating community engagement in the research.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results of the project reveal that, in the context of broad structural support for customary practices, communities leveraging traditional wisdom into commercial realms are able to generate livelihoods and maintain cultural heritage transmission.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Local communities report increased pride and pleasure in the resurgence and innovation of cultural practices.
authors.affiliation: PhD Candidate, Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia tom.dick@scu.edu.au.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dick
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000379:methods; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D009514:Vanuatu
keywords: Vanuatu; engagement; impact; traditional wisdom; well-being