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Background During the settler caucus (for all non-indigenous participants) at the 1998 Australia-Aotearoa/New Zealand Community Psychology conference, a small group had identified that their main response to indigenous anger was grief, coupled with guilt. Discussion revealed that the sources of these feelings were our questions about our identity as Pakeha (non-indigenous) members of New Zealand society. We decided to meet after the conference to explore these issues of grief, responsibility and identity. We wanted to take some practical steps to share tentative beginnings of decolonisation work with other non-indigenous psychologists.