Communication · Executive Insight Brief · 225
Repair requires more than relief
Engage a Native Hawaiian collective practice of making relationships right without reducing it to private affirmation or generic mediation
Premise
Hoʻoponopono is a Native Hawaiian process for making relationships right when conflict, wrongdoing, secrecy, resentment, or other relational disorder has disturbed a family or community. Its center is collective repair: attending to what happened, who was affected, what must be acknowledged, and what restitution, forgiveness, release, or changed conduct may become possible.
Mary Kawena Pukui, E. W. Haertig, and Catherine A. Lee documented Hawaiian concepts and family practices in Nānā i ke Kumu. Pukui did not invent Hoʻoponopono. The responsible lineage places traditional and collective Native Hawaiian practice first, Pukui and her collaborators as major documenters, and later authors as interpreters or adapters.
What the model is: Hoʻoponopono — Hawaiian Relational Repair Process in Knowledge →
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