Anchoring Our Health Through Cultural Wisdom: renewal requires internal connection through exposure

Culture is medicine.

When we can anchor ourselves through the wisdom of our culture and our ancestors, we can find an unbreakable foundation that surpasses time and technology. This starts with connection, with the use of Native Hawaiian practices & protocols we can establish what that means universally. Through connection, it requires us to expose who we are in a safe and secure environment, much like a Pu’u Honua (place of refuge). In this journey we bring back the significance of culture as a means, a method, a medicine.

What will participants learn?

• Kilo, Kaona, Makawalu: observe, reveal, sense.
• Form, function, essence: the what, the how, the magic.
• There are three important aspects we start with in this journey, who you? Where you? And what is your kuleana?

Who is this  workshop for?

• Educators
• Organizations
• Health workers
• Community members
• FQHC’s
• Behavioral Health Practitioners
• Medical Professionals

Looking to receive continuing education contact hours?

Papa Ola Lōkahi (NASWHI-CEP-13) has been designated an approved provider of social work continuing education contact hours by the National Association of Social Workers Hawai’i Chapter. The Papa Ola Lokahi maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved by the State of Hawaii Department of Health’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division (Approval# ADAD-25-017) for up to 1.5 contact hour(s). NOTE: Participants are responsible for submitting proof of attendance to their respective certification or licensing board. ʻOhana CoE & Papa Ola Lōkahi do not submit this information on behalf of training participants.

Participants will receive a link to verify attendance at the end of the workshop.

Guest Presenters

Kumu Kanoelani Davis
Executive Director of Ho‘akā Mana, Kumu Hula, Kahu Pono in Native Hawaiian Healing Arts – Hō‘ā Mana

Kanoelani, he Kama A Hina, from MolokainuiaHina, she is a Native Hawaiian single mother that raised four daughters on her own as a practice of being the nurturer and protector through innate kuleana. She has been in the realm of health and wellbeing for 14+ years. Davis, started in the pilot program in 2013 as an integrated cultural navigator for Molokai Community Health Center, working with the medical, Behavioral Health and dental departments. Since then she has sat on the board for MCHC serving 3 years and has committed to a culturally involved system.

Davis, contributed her work with building out curriculum for Substance Abuse Youth Prevention programs and served Molokai Youth. Davis has evolved her work through hands on experience and created train the trainers with educators at Leeward CC, several nonprofit organizations that serve community in prevention, intervention and recovery. Her work extended into community that now involves Crisis Counselors, Native Hawaiian practitioners, and Lahaina survivors.

She deeply believes that the 40+ years she has trained in Martial Arts, Healing, Hula and Lua has come to this. The art of life & death, through defense and dance has provided the foundational means to who she is and what she is meant to do in this lifetime.

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