COME JOIN US TO EXPERIENCE & LEARN ABOUT:

• Trauma-informed Approaches, Practices, & Principles - Featuring Peer Support Basics & Application in our Forest setting

• Transforming From Trauma - Connecting Post-Traumatic Growth, Neuroplasticity, and Cultural Practices as Pathways to Healing

• Mālama Kou Kino, Mālama ʻAina, Mālama Kanaka - Nurturing Self-Care, Wellness, and Well-Being—Mind, Body, Spirit, and Place.

This learning collaborative offers hands-on, experiential opportunities designed to strengthen both professional practice and personal well-being. The Gathering takes a unique dual approach: we seek to strengthen the capacity of community members impacted by trauma, and their supports—whether the trauma is through incarceration, systems involvement, or environmental crises such as fungus affecting the ʻōhiʻa lehua—while also enhancing the individual wellness of every participant.

We are honored to host experts in the field of Hawaiian culture, trauma transformation, creation care and forestry, who will share how ancestral knowledge and cultural practices have the power to transform trauma and restore balance.

In addition, we will highlight innovative uses of technology—including digital storytelling, measuring trauma transformation through cultural impact, and emerging evaluation tools that honor both data and the spirit of aloha and ohana - Join Us!