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The David O. Mckay Center, 55-220 Kulanui St, Laie, HI (2026)

05/22/2021

SWIPE to meet our amazing Field Directors for the McKay Center! ➡️➡️➡️

Isabelle, Morgan, Maddi, Sussan, and Sydny are here to serve you. Whether you’re on campus or learning remotely, don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions or suggestions. You can contact any of them through this Instagram, on Canvas, or via email. We love you, peacebuilders!

05/10/2021

We know that having positive conversations within sustained relationships and networks of trust is key to transforming attitudes about both adversaries and injustice. But when we encounter difficult views online, engaging in a productive way can feel hard, leaving us tempted to cancel, block, report, and unfriend.

A number of McKay Center alumni have gone on to work or partner with , a non-profit that transforms conflict in the digital age. Join alumna to hear about the work they do and the opportunities to get involved with Digital Peacebuilding on Thursday, May 13th at 11am HST. Stay tuned for a link!

05/04/2021

“In a time when communities are becoming more divided, the world needs more people who will choose love over fear in the face of conflict, people who give hope in a time of hopefulness, people who will be influences for peace when anger and anxiety reign.” —

How do you love dangerously? How do you choose love over fear? Answer in our stories!

04/08/2020

Parents And Children Together is a nonprofit organization in Hawaii. Founded in 1968 with the mission to work with “Hawaii’s children, individuals, and families to create safe and promising futures”. In other words, to serve the people of Hawaii by helping educate children, prevent and intervene in domestic violence, strengthen families, offer behavioral health support, and strengthen communities through their programs.

They believe by doing these things, a healthy and impactful relationship will develop between families and the corresponding community. They hope once it is achieved it will create an area of peace that will eventually cause a ripple effect and transform the Hawaiin community into a safe and fulfilled community rich with opportunities.

They have six programs that they use to help achieve this vision, all of which embody their six values: respect, collaboration, informed approach, excellence, holistic care, and future focused. They’ve done what they can and are striving to do more. So, the next step involves the families and communities to inhabit their dream and make it theirs, to actively chase peace.

04/06/2020

You may be familiar with the titles Place Names of Hawaii and the Hawaiin Dictionary, commonly found on every islands’ bookshelf. The contents of these essential books were brought in part by Mary Kawena Pukui. She also helped in co-authoring over 50 books and 150 songs. She played a big role in documenting all the knowledge we have now in Hawaii. She helped prevent losing the language and knowledge further from her devotion to the Hawaiin culture. Her reason and words: “I’m doing this for my grandchildren, but also for your grandchildren.”

Since young, she was raised bilingual and bicultural and had a knack for languages. She was encouraged to write and continued her linguist journey to the Bishop Museum, where she dedicated most of her life. She traveled and came across numerous stories told through memories, songs, and oral histories of Hawaiian residents. She knew the hidden meanings behind the language and if she didn’t, she sought it out.

She has shown, and others alike, sharing the things we love can be of great consequential value. We may not understand or get to see, but there is purpose in pursuing talent and belief. It led her to lend a hand in preserving Hawaii, and as she preserved it, we now should preserve her memory.

04/03/2020

Today’s highlight is Jean Sadako King! She was the daughter of William Donald McKillop and Chiyo Murakami. Her father was postmaster of the small town Captain Cook on the Big Island of Hawaii, and her mother the daughter of japanese coffee farmers who immigrated to Kona. She grew up well educated, was the valedictorian and editor of her high school’s yearbook. Though, it wasn’t all smooth sailing. Pearl Harbor was attacked on her 16th birthday, but she continued her education all the way up to a masters degree in history.

She didn’t just spend all that time learning, she was active in the political organization, Hawaii Youth for Democracy. She also participated in the labor movement and other things. It's things like this, her political intrigue, that has helped the Hawaiin people and made her legacy.

Two years after she received her B.A in 1948, she campaigned for the position as delegate to Hawaii’s territorial constitutional convention. She did not win, but it put her name out there as the only woman candidate. Her career only sailed from there with its highs and lows to become the lieutenant governor, and when she retired she did not stop her activities.

Her political career’s life work consisted of advocating for equal rights for women, rights for minority groups, free non segregated school systems, pushed to preserve the environment with more stringent environmental protection and land-use-control laws, opposed eviction and the demolition of Hansen’s Disease patients located in old military barracks, and fought for affordable housing.

Then after her retirement, she served the Interfaith Alliance Hawaii (creating collaboration and breaking separation/prejudice of those of different faiths), was a delegate for the Soviet-American Women’s Summit, and served as a leader of Save Our Star-Bulletin (kept the Star-Bulletin newspaper open in Honolulu after it was decided by Liberty Newspaper to close). She also helped sponsor the Bottle Bill to help encourage recycling. Sadako had done many things in her lifetime, of which made her a high profile activist, but it was with the image that she did everything she could to boost up others and create a sustainable

04/02/2020

Highlight today is known as the High Priestess of Ancient Hula, Iolani Luahine, left behind her legacy of hula dance that created mystical connections. She embodied what is hula and shared with those who saw the rich Hawain culture with the story it told. in her embodiment of the hula goddess Laka.

Not so many are lucky to be born and live your essence, but she was. She was born with the name Harriet Lanihau Makekau that changed to Iolani meaning “heavenly hawk” or to “fly like a hawk,” and she certainly flew in her dance.

She learned dance from her aunt that adopted her who was a hula dancer for the royal court. She also learned from Maary Kawena Pukui, her university instructor in the University of Hawaii. Dancing was a part of her everyday life and she aspired to share the beauty of it.

She opened a hula studio and taught whoever came. She not only taught hula, but the culture and meaning behind it. She was an instructor, performer, and storyteller. Iolani teachings left behind something to remember and something no one will be to imitate, her essence of hula.

04/01/2020

Today we are highlighting another influential women, Helen Lake Kanahele. She was a leader, an activist, and an indomitable spirit. Helen had many achievements as one of the first women labor leaders in Hawaii, being the president of the Auxiliary of the International Longshoreman’s and Warehousemen’s Union, and working with the United Public Workers union. She accomplished a lot even with opposition in her way through firm development of values from her origin.

She became interested in politics and started pursuing it at the age of 12 because of her talent for singing and dancing. Her talent played a role in her introduction to politics because she joined a traveling troop to showcase her talent, and it was through her travels that she heard of and felt segregation against those of color. She then joined political campaigns and started her journey of fighting for her beliefs and those of others.

Along the way, she had two beautiful daughters that she raised by herself after her husband abandoned them. Through it all, she supported them as a laundromat worker, then a custodian at Kalakaua Intermediate School while continuing her union activities protesting for the rights and wages of union workers.

She was and is a respected Hawaiin woman because of her firm stance in making her voice heard in a time when women were subject to be without a voice.

03/30/2020

Women’s history month is not yet over and before it ends we want to showcase some influential women who made a difference:

“We are the sum total of our experiences, which is to say that we are burdened by our pasts. When we experience stress or fear in our lives, if we would look carefully, we would find that the cause is actually a memory. It is the emotions which are tied to these memories which affect us now. The subconscious associates an action or person in the present with something that happened in the past. When this occurs, emotions are activated and stress is produced”
-Morrnah Nalamaku Simeona

Simeona utilized the traditional practice of Ho’oponopono (to make right or rectify an error) to form a new system of healing. Her process in achieving self-release, freedom from the past, includes four phases of “I’m sorry, please forgive me, thank you, and then I love you” in a resolution-forgiveness manner.

She spread her Ho’oponopono teachings in the Pacific, Americas, Asia, Europe, and wherever she could reach. She introduced Ho'oponopono at the Huna World Convention, taught the principles at the Universities, created several foundations to spread its teachings, and participated in seminars. She continued sharing her message of healing until she could no more, and it was towards the end of her travels that she was named a Living Treasure of Hawaii in 1983.

She is a beloved Hawaiin figure for her healing character, but it wasn’t only Ho’oponopono that she learned. Her mother was a Kahuna and Simeona was trained as a child to follow her footsteps. A Kahuna is a spiritual leader that maintains the balance of harmony in a community where the inner and outer realities become a fluid blend. She was trained to be a healer and also mastered LomiiLomi Lapa’au, the Hawaiian healing massage. All her training led up to the path of her delivering her Ho’oponopono prayer.

Her life’s work was healing others, and her work continues without end.

03/29/2020

This video has been shared multiple times, but we also wanted to give a shoutout to all the chapters for all their hard work. Culture can be a hard thing to capture and distinguish, but culture night is always a time of education and empowerment. It is a time when people from BYUH and the community come together and it will be missed this year.
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One of the things that makes BYUH so special is the variety of cultures that enrich our community. Although we did not get to celebrate Culture Night together, we are grateful for the videos that showcase each club. How do you celebrate your culture?

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03/27/2020

We are highlighting Pillars of Peace Hawaii which is a branch created by the Hawaii Community Foundation in 2012! It was created with the initiative to create a sustainable practice of peace in daily lives from young to old through Social and Emotional Learning programs. Pillars of Peace’s purpose can be further translated to encourage all to cultivate compassion, mindfulness, and justice to grow Hawaii’s (future) leaders.

The cultivating path is not easy, so Pillars of Peace Hawaii makes sure to invite prominent leaders, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to impart their wisdom and insights. The nonprofit also utilizes the SEL program in Hawaii schools to reach hawaiii’s youth through “community meetings, professional development opportunities, and the Schools of the Future Conference [that] includes a track of speakers and presenters” (Pillars of Peace Hawaii).

They are cultivating through teaching the practice of the Aloha way- an overflow of love, peace, and compassion that inspires others to live the same.

03/25/2020

During this worldwide time of difficulty and change, how has your home and family life been effected? As we all continue to adjust and realign our lives for our safety and the safety of those around us, the McKay Center is holding online Parenting Plans for couples and families. Parenting Plans help create a space for couples to discuss and work through important family topics that often cause conflict when they are avoided.

Parenting plans allow each spouse to have a voice and feel heard. They create a resource to use in the future when conflict or contention comes up. Additionally, couples won’t have to spend future time still dealing with the same problems.

What to expect: A trained neutral third party will go through a series of topics pertaining to the home (education, vacations, media, emergency plans, etc.) and take notes while the couple discusses their views on each topic. The notes will be typed up and sent to the couple after a few days. Discussions usually take about an hour and are completely confidential.

Parenting Plans can be conducted over Zoom, Skype, or FaceBook Video. If you are interested please contact Chamberlain McCracken:

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