ONLINE WELLBEING SERIES

What is Online Wellbeing Series?

With the generous support of Hawai‘i People’s Fund, LAING Hawai‘i is proud to launch our online wellbeing workshop series steeped in ancestral and cultural knowledge to provide an outlet for collective healing and to sustain our community in this time. These workshops feature cultural practitioners versed in ancestral healing knowledge; mental health professionals that will provide tools for dealing with stress and trauma during this time; and movement practitioners and educators.

PAST WORKSHOPS

Date
MAY 23, 2020
Time
Saturday, 10 AM – 12 PM

FRONTLINE WORKERS TALKBACK & TOOLKIT

“What is the purpose of poetry?” Join us for this virtual Filipino Community Poetry Writing Workshop. We will use poetry as a form of community-building and self-reflection. This workshop is open to writers of all experience levels.

Join LAING Hawai‘i for a conversation with frontlines medical workers
Marianela Jacob, MSN, APRN-BC
Dr. Noelani Hobbs
Elaine Hicks, MaSP, MSW, CSAC, CFE

We will discuss the speakers’ personal experiences through the COVID-19 pandemic, the impacts of traumatic events on the mental health of essential workers, and tools to support yourself through the next phase.

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Marianela Jacob APRN, FNP-BC is a Family Nurse Practitioner with private practice in Waipahu Hawai’i. She is also the current president of LAING (Language Acquisition and Immersion for the New Generation) a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the cultural, linguistic, artistic, and literary heritages of the immigrant communities of Hawai’i.
Marianela served as a Board of Trustees of the Philippine Nurses Association of America Foundation 2018-2019. She was also a Past President of Philippine Nurses Association Hawai’i 2010-2012.
She received numerous awards including the PRIDE award, the most prestigious award from PNAH dated 2012, and Best Researcher Award from Filipino Nurses Organization of Hawai’i dated 2011.

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Noelani Coreen Cadiz Hobbs is a board certified family medicine physician. She’s a local girl, born and raised in Oahu; graduated from Pearl City High School and the University of Washington; finished her medical degree at the University of Saint Eustatius School of Medicine, and completed her residency at the University of Arkansas. She currently practices with her mother, Dr Corazon Cadiz Hobbs-Oshiro in Waipahu. Her interests include dancing, singing, writing poems, and traveling. She is a former Woodsonette at the Rosalie Woodson Dance Academy where her ballet, tap, jazz and hula led her to an exciting 2 seasons as an NFL Cheerleader for the Seattle Seahawks. She is happily married to her loving (and extremely patient) husband, Bruce Jackson, and is proud mama to two handsome sons, Myles (15) and Kainoa (4). She is on the Board of Governors for the Philippine Medical Association of Hawai‘i and is honored to serve the Filipino community.

Date
MAY 30, 2020
Time
Saturday, 10 AM – 12 PM

ATANG: RESILIENCE & ANCESTRAL HEALING PRACTICES FOR EVERYDAY RITUAL

Julz Bolinayen and Jamee Pineda will empower attendees to use ancestral practices to care for themselves and their households during quarantine by sharing about being in balance with Diwata and Anito.

It is recommended to attend all 3 workshops. Space is limited so please sign up only if you can commit to all dates and times. Please note, this workshop will be in-person and open to writers of all experience levels.

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Julz Bolinayen S. Ignacio (they/them) is an Ilokano-American non-binary queer healer and artist who intuitively weaves energy, song, spirit ink, spiritual guidance and intuition through ritual. Julz is a Tattoo Ritualist, Spiritual Mentor + Coach, and Hilot Binabaylan currently based in Honolulu, O’ahu in the Kingdom of Hawai‘i.

Full bio and info at www.julz.live
IG: @julz.bolinayen

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Jamee Pineda, LAc, MAcOM, MPA
Hilot Binabaylan

I am a queer, trans, nonbinary/genderqueer person of Tagalog ancestry. I graduated from the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine in 2015. In 2020, I studied with Rev. Apu Adman Aghama and Rev. Lakay Alsent Magbaya Aghama. I became a certified hilot binabaylan through the Hilot Academy of Binabaylan. I value practicing medicine that encompasses physical, social, emotional, spiritual, and mental well being. I also look at how cultural, political, and environmental factors impact health. It is a goal of mine to support patients in having an active role in their healing and to assist them in shifting towards behaviors and choices that better serve them.

IG and FB: @jameepinedahealingarts

Date
JUNE 6, 2020
Time
10 AM – 11 AM & 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM

CHECK DA TEKNIQ: TINIKLING TUTORIAL

Learn about tinikling, the traditional bamboo stick folk dance from the Philippines, then try your hand (and foot) at some of the basic movements with Gabe Torno from Tekniqlingz.
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Gabe Torno is born and raised on O’ahu Hawai’i and is a lifelong resident of ‘Aiea, O’ahu. He is a graduate of Chaminade University in Honolulu with a Masters of Business Administration (with concentration in nonprofit management). He is also a graduate of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa with a Bachelor of Arts in Ethnic Studies. He works for the Department of Defense and had previous positions with various educational nonprofits such as AmeriCorps, Bishop Museum, Read Aloud America, and Island Pacific Academy. He is the founder and executive director of Tekniqlingz, a nonprofit whose mission is to strengthen ethnic identity and cultural awareness through education and the perpetuation of the Filipino culture in art, music, and dance.

Date
JUNE 13, 2020
Time
10 AM – 12 PM

NOT MOM’S BUT LOLA’S SEX TALK: A 2020 PRIMER FOR FILIPINX PAMILYA + EXTENDED OHANA IN THE TIME OF CORONA

Grace Caligtan offers this on-line discussion on sexual wellness to help facilitate needed conversations on healing shame and creating more sex positive and body affirming spaces for local Filipinx youth and pamilya. Grace hopes this culturally specific conversation will inspire us to re-imagine what coming of age and coming out together as pamilya and a community can mean in this time of Covid.
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Grace Alvaro Caligtan (pronouns: she, her, and they) serves as an adjunct Public Health faculty at Hawai’i Pacific University and teaches Sexuality in Health and Society.  Grace also serves with Planned Parenthood in the Great Northwest and Hawai’ian Islands as a Community Outreach Educator and trainer for family programs that supports parent-child connection and strengthens family communication on sexual health. As a cultural worker and writer, Grace co-wrote and produced My Body, My Space as a way to support families to break silences. The characters in her play were embarrassed to talk about their emerging sexuality and harm that had been done and they needed the adults in their lives to listen more closely to their youth as they became balasang and barok.  

Date
JUNE 27, 2020
Time
Saturday, 10 AM – 12 PM

MENTAL WELLBEING FOR FILIPINX STUDENTS

Chachie Abara, Jessica Gacuma, Danica Marielle Ola, Lexi Mendoza & Jay Page are current students and recent graduates gathering for a discussion on Mental Health & Wellbeing for Filipinx Students. Join us as we address issues affecting our youth currently in or recently graduating from high school or college. Speakers will address topics from intergenerational resilience, trauma, substance abuse, cultural identity, and general mental health for those in the education system.
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Kumustakayo gagayem! My name is Chachie A, and I am currently a fourth year undergraduate student studying Psychology and Ilokano studies. For me, ever since I have found myself through my cultural heritage I wanted to be an outlet of change to the next generation especially being boldly unafraid to share my experiences to those who have yet to come. I aspire to become an Ilokano instructor as well as obtaining my Master’s Degree into Social Work where I am able to be a Mental Health advocate for the Filipinx Diaspora.

IG: @reclaimingfilipinxidentity where I interview individuals of the Filipino American community in Hawai’i to gain more a better understanding and to capture the narrative of the people here.

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Danica Marielle Ola is a Junior at Mills Collegein Oakland studying Biopsychology. She founded and serves as the President of Mills College’s first Filipino Student Organization—Kapwa. She also serves as the representative for the Filipino community on the South Asian, Middle Eastern, Asian Pacific Islander Committee where she creates large scale events that educate the Mills community on Filipino culture. Danica was recently awarded the Asian American Leadership Award at Mills College along with Kapwa receiving the Student Organization of the Year Award. When Danica is not creating events for campus, she spends her time studying for her psychology classes while also researching more about the Filipino Mental Health Diaspora, Acculturative Stress, and Intergenerational Trauma. She also works closely with the Asian Community in the Bay Area to amplify Asian voices and struggles.

LAING Hawai‘i strives to create a brave safer space where everyone can feel empowered. To that end we have a set of tenets that help us to remain accountable to each other. Please review these tenets here and understand that your participation in any LAING Hawai‘i programming is under the assumption that you will hold yourself to these tenets. That being said any harassment in-person or online will not be tolerated. You may be expelled for harassment or other issues and will not be entitled to any refund of costs or compensation of any kind.
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