Day 5 Manaʻo for Cohort Kumukahi November 1, 2024

Although the last day of any experience is often bittersweet, our potluck dessert table made our final time together a little extra sweet! We enjoyed each other’s company with delicious home baked goods, local favorite bakeries, and (since I love eating savory foods for dessert) even some delicious poke that one of our participants made. Walking around Hālau o Haumea on this final day was also extra special because of the many plants that folks had brought for their final presentations—the air was fragrant with pōhinahina and various ferns, and the colors of white hibiscus and ʻaʻaliʻi helped to brighten our space.

To close our time together for our last session of Cohort Kumukahi, we concluded with an activity where every participant wrote down an important lesson or reminder that they learned during the cohort experience:

The joy of being SEEN

Responsibility

Optimism

Individual’s journeys/struggles are not so different

Transformation

Intentional Micro Practice

Diversity & Resilience

Connection

Grounding & Empowerment

Activism

Still learning, still a student

Connections

Mālama

Intention

We are many trees living in the forest together

Finding your kuleana

Listening

Connection (Pilina)

Intention

Abundance & Infinity

Pilina

Building pilina with ʻāina sustains life

Uluwehi, abundance in thoughts and actions

Connection & Caring

Resilience & Pilina

Pilina; Huli ka lima i lalo; Micropractice

Pilina is my medicine

Building a strong future through pilina

He Hawaiʻi kākou! Mau a mau

Kukui

Kuleana

Communication

Activate

Intention

Collaboration

Activate!

Community

Kuleana through pilina

Hope, together we are strong

Respect

Starting our journey where we are

Hoʻoulu pilina

What is between us is not empty; what we breathe out is breathed in by another

Though we are different, we are also the same

Genuine and well-considered intention and direction

Pilina

Be here now with joy and be open

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