General Education

Hawaiian Speaker Series

COME LEARN THE TRUE HAWAIIAN WAY

Join us for a series of events that invite prominent Hawaiian people to come to HPU and speak (“talk story” style) about the Hawaiian culture, values and traditions. The Native Hawaiian speakers that participate in these events give our students, faculty and staff the unique opportunity to intimately learn about this culturally rich place we call home.

The next event will be on Tuesday, November 1st from 2:05 - 3:30pm in Sharky’s Cove (MP 139).

The guest speaker will be Mr. Pono Shim, President and CEO of Enterprise Honolulu and master story-teller, who will discuss the practical applications of ALOHA (practiced by Native Hawaiians) and its values that provide direction for our thoughts and actions. He will also explain how ALOHA can ignite the leader in you, as you strive for success. 

Mr. Shim was recently identified as one of Hawaii’s top 20 Break Out Leaders and speaks about the practical applications of the values of ALOHA, which was taught to him by kupuna Aunty Pilahi Paki (who is known as the proponent of ALOHA).  Shim currently serves on 15 various non-profit, for profit, taskforces and advisory boards; and was recently contacted by the international peace institution (who was responsible for organizing the peace treaty talks in Copenhagen) to lead a dialogue with various international delegates about the meaning of ALOHA and how to implement its value system and practices in peace discussions around the WORLD!

 

 Source: Malia Smith, msmith@hpu.edu