AHI Sessions

Format (2 minutes) :

Ākea: Global themes 

Honua: Regional themes 

‘Iaka: Personal themes 

Hua: Personal Motivations, Seeds of Inspiration  

Triple Piko: Ties to Past, Present, Future 


 Aloha mai!

We invite you to sign up for an AHI session! Ahi in ʻŌlelo Hawaii (Hawaiian Language) translates to “fire, spark”. We will host up to 2 AHI sessions per Cohort Meeting to allow each of you the opportunity to share more about your personal projects, organizations background and hua (motivations, inspirations). We will limit these sessions to 2 1/2 mins each, with accompanying slides, media or anything else you would like to share with our community. Weʻll then open the session up to 10 mins of group cohort reflections, words of affirmation and manaʻo (thoughts). 

We encourage you to utilize Kumu Kekuhi Kanakaʻoleʻs A.H.I. framework (Ākea, Honua, ʻĪaka) to share your kiʻi (themes) from a global perspective (Akea), local and regional perspective (Honua) and personal perspective (ʻĪaka) and to identify your Hua (personal motivations) as well as the Triple Piko Analysis of Past, Present and Future.

If you are inspired to share in a future session but have some clarifying questions, please reach out and we can set up a session to review!

Modeling an AHI Session (2 min)

At Purple Maiʻa we are on a mission to educate and empower the next generation of culturally grounded, community serving technology makers and problem solvers. We do this through youth empowerment and STEM educational programming, workforce development and entrepreneurship training. We are committed to Eahou, a sovereign, self-sufficient and regenerative Hawaiʻi economy.

My Akea, global, unifying kiʻi (theme) calls to international efforts to heal the earth, bringing us closer to our shared elements as our kin (relations), and combat the rising costs of living. I acknowledge the global, extractive capitalistic economic system wielded and protected by western imperialism creates these conditions.

My Honua, unique regional, kiʻi calls to Papahānaumoku and Wākea as our Kanaka (Hawaiian) sky and earth, our moʻokūʻauhau, genealogy, ties us as Kanaka to our elements as ʻOhana, family.

I identify the continued illegal occupation of Hawaii by America against the will and inherent sovereignty of the Kanaka, in violation of international laws.

Purple Maiʻa identifies the challenge of developing a local tech innovation sector in the Pacific, Oceania, region as an opportunity to focus on youth and encourage them to aloha ʻāina and love their home.

My personal ʻĪaka reflection as an aloha ʻāina (patriot) motivates me to create real change in my community, from an education and economic development lens down to hyper local community organizing effort on food sovereignty by farming kalo.

For my Hua (seed of motivation) This hana (work) makes me feel more connected to my kupuna (my ancestors), my ancestral ʻāina and my self identified kuleana (personal responsibilities).