Registration is online now

Healing Our Spirit Worldwide The Sixth Gathering
September 3-10, 2010


Registration is online now - keiki, ‘ōpio, mākua and kūpuna. Early registrations accepted up through September 30, 2009.

Abstracts are being accepted through September 8, 2009.

Visit www.hosw.com now!

Aloha mai kākou,

Greetings from our kūpuna to your ancestors, from the spirits of our lands to those of yours.

Mahalo (thank you) to you all for your interest in attending Healing Our Spirit Worldwide, the Sixth Gathering, scheduled for September 2010 in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. Many thanks for your infinite patience waiting for information.

Healing Our Spirit Worldwide is an indigenous cultural celebration that will focus on successes, wise practices and common issues in health, healing and addictions within indigenous communities. The Sixth Gathering will radiate the wisdom of our kūpuna- (elders) and the aloha of the land and the indigenous people of ko pae ‘āina Hawai‘i.The 2010 gathering in Honolulu will continue the tradition of HOSW—to strengthen and heal indigenous families and communities worldwide. The HOSW website is alive at www.hosw.com. As details are available, they will be posted to this site to aid you in planning how to share, how to get to Hawai‘i, where to stay, and other information as it becomes available. For automatic updates by e-mail, please register for the mailing list here.

The Call for Abstracts has also been posted. The deadline to submit is September 8, 2009.

We invite you back to our site again and again as more information becomes available.

We look forward to welcoming you to Hawai‘i in 2010.


Vicky Holt Takamine
Director, Healing Our Spirit Worldwide 2010
Papa Ola Lōkahi, Host
Phone (808) 591-6650 (direct line)

HOSW Meets with Air New Zealand

In early April 09, HOSW logistic coordinator, Priscilla Texeira, (front left) meet with IIC Member Barry Bublitz (back left) and Air NZ representative, Carl Amos (front right) at the Langham Hotel to discuss air travel for the New Zealand delegation attending the Healing Our Spirit World wide - Sixth Gathering in September 2010. Watch this space as an announcement will be made before October 2009 on special pricing for those heading up to Hawaii for the gathering.

www.hosw.com

Wow time does fly, check out the website
I am due to head to a HOSW planning meeting shortly so expect big updates in early March

HOSW Poster - Print & Distribute

This is the first ‘Healing Our Spirit Worldwide – The Sixth Gathering’ Poster announcement.

Click onto this site and print off the HOSW Poster to circulate through your networks, add to your newsletters or insert into your publications.

http://www.papaolalokahi.org/coconut/events/pdf/HOSW_1pgr.pdf

The HOSW Covenant

Celebrating that our Creator has given Indigenous Peoples, who belong to the land and the sea, a unique and rich collection of gifts including mother earth, the sky and water, our families and nations, our culture and wisdom and our own lives;Recognising that these gifts rest at the heart of our past, our present and our future;Believing that the Spirit is the energy that empowers us to share, replenish, protect and respect these gifts according to the Creator’s design;Remembering the devastation and confusion that colonisation brought, including alcohol and disease;Grieving for the land taken and the loss of communal life;We the Indigenous Peoples of the world having come together as part of the Healing Our Spirit Worldwide movement declare with one voice and heart our resolve to strengthen the Spirit of our Nations and Peoples, to clear from our hearts and minds the clouds of confusion and doubt.We hold as true and as our guide the teaching of our grandmothers and grandfathers that;We hold a sacred role to protect, maintain and respect the Creator’s gifts so that our children and generations of children after them may live a healthy and rich life;Our responsibility is to address, enhance and restore our sacred role; as custodians of these gifts we need to make wise decisions because we are accountable to the Creator and to generations to come;The health and wellbeing of our people and nations is built on our ability to maintain compassionate, functioning relationships within ourselves, with the earth, each other, our families and communities;Knowledge and wisdom are our partners and we must enrich them both and use them well if our children are to build a meaningful future.We commit ourselves to work in unity and with resolve to strengthen and heal the spirit of our Peoples.

Kia ora, Aloha, Welcome!

I am pleased to announce the creation of this website and invite you to participate in making this a successful medium as we work towards a successful Aotearoa attendance at the Healing Our Spirit Worldwide – The Sixth Gathering to be held in Hawai’i, 3 – 10 September 2010. This gathering in Honolulu, hosted by Papa Ola Lokahi, will continue the tradition of the HOSW movement, to strengthen and heal indigenous families and communities worldwide.

My role as a council member is to keep our Aotearoa Whanui informed of planning progress and advocate for Aotearoa's view point as the Sixth Gathering is planned.