Kia Ora Tatou

The following message was received from Hawai’i today.

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)