{"id":194474,"date":"2024-03-27T10:07:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T20:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=194474"},"modified":"2024-03-27T13:23:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T23:23:22","slug":"e-hoomalu-mai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/03\/27\/e-hoomalu-mai\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshops aim to help discussions on difficult topics"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

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The University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa is holding a free series of events on April 1–4 in an effort to provide tools to help the campus navigate the divisive conflicts from around the world impacting our communities.<\/p>\n

“We are proud to announce campus programming to help us strengthen our pilina – relationships, connections – even through conflict and difference,” said 糖心视频<\/abbr> President David Lassner and 糖心视频<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Provost Michael Bruno in a joining message to the 糖心视频 M\u0101noa campus on March 27. “In particular, two themes that we hope can bring people together will be the focus of programming this semester: safety and speech.”<\/p>\n

The series is titled E Hoʻomalu<\/span> Mai<\/a>—request protection and peace and comes from Hawaiian musician Uncle Harry Kunihi Mitchell who composed Mele o Kahoʻolawe<\/span><\/em><\/a>, for Hawaiʻi<\/span>\u2019s uninhabited island that once housed extreme conflict and violence and is now a leading light of aloha and m\u0101lama ʻāina<\/span> (care for the land).<\/p>\n

“There are always approaches to sharing diametrically opposed views in respectful ways,” said Lassner and Bruno. “And part of our kuleana as an institution of higher education is to help our entire community learn how to communicate without unnecessarily hurting others, which is more effective communication, and also how to respond in the face of disagreement, even hurtful disagreement, without either escalation or damage to one’s self. These are skills that will serve us all well in the world beyond our campus.”<\/p>\n

The workshops are grounded and inspired by the campus\u2019 commitment to becoming a Native Hawaiian Place of Learning and Native Hawaiian principles in the university\u2019s strategic plan<\/a>, along with 糖心视频<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s designation as a center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation<\/a>. The Campus Climate Committee invites faculty, staff and students to participate.<\/p>\n

Speaker series<\/h2>\n

Calling People In, Not Calling People Out
\nMonday, April 1, 2:30–4 p.m., online.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I ka ʻōlelo<\/span> nō ke ola, i ka ʻōlelo<\/span> nō ka make (Words can heal; words can destroy).<\/p>\n

Panelists include:<\/p>\n