Vision Statement
Our Hui envisions the growth of a Puʻuhonua society that is planted in healing justice, embodied abolition, emergent strategy, collective kuleanaship and kūlanaship, and the regeneration of an ʻahupuaʻa economy capable of meeting our basic needs for interdependence, spirituality, food, water, shelter, clothing, rest, education, health, safety, sanitation, transportation, and community. We commit to a future where our healers grow mutual aid medicine, where healing resources are protected and shared communally and ecologically, ensuring equitable distribution of care through networks of Hui and Hua. We seek to build a world where decolonization, abolition, transformation, and community accountability are foundational to our culture, where mutual aid replaces charity and dependency, and where justice emerges from the collective growth of the people and the land.
“I felt called to join in this action because, through my training in Healing Justice, I came to understand the profound role that healing plays not just in the individual, but in the collective. Healing Justice, as I’ve learned from our organization, is not about treating symptoms in isolation, but about addressing the root causes of harm—whether from historical trauma, systemic oppression, or the violence of ongoing colonialism”
Soil of Change
Healing justice is the soil of our Puʻuhonua society, addressing the deep wounds and generational trauma caused by U.S. colonization and occupation, capitalist labor exploitation, environmental destruction, and the medical industrial complex. Our vision embraces healing as a political, cultural, spiritual, and transformative process that abolishes the harmful patterns we practice in our bodies and communities while growing Hawaiian Ea, Black Liberation, Immigrant Justice, Reproductive Justice, Queer and Trans Justice, Disability Justice, Housing Justice, Transformative Justice, and Environmental Justice.
“Our purpose is not just to heal individuals, but to heal our communities as a whole. Through Healing Justice, we reclaim our power to resist the violence of colonization. By training together, supporting each other, and engaging in collective action, we are building the foundation for a future that transcends the violence of the present. We call on others to join us in this mission, to step into their own healing journeys, and to be part of this powerful movement of liberation.“
Seed of Change
To nurture a Puʻuhonua society grown in the soil of Healing Justice, our Seed of Change is planted in the principle that without embodied change there can be no collective change, and without collective change no change matters. To align with this principle, our members practice Hāha, a Hawaiian diagnostic that recognizes how harm and oppression manifests through wounds (embodied trauma), symptoms (collective trauma), and systems (institutional structures). By identifying patterned responses to harm, tracing systemic cycles of domination and liberation, and healing generational timelines of trauma, our approach offers a diagnostic understanding of oppression’s impacts. Using Hāhā, we respond to the interplay between wounds, symptoms, and systems by offering innovative mutual aid medicine for our grassroots movements for liberation.