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Event Spotlight: Wellness Wednesdays

In this feature, we’re highlighting our monthly Wellness Wednesday events. These events, hosted in partnership with Awakened Mana, are conscious and wellness-focused events that help the community relax, connect, and unwind.

I chatted with Diana Dymarsky, founder of Awakened Mana and coordinator of our monthly events, to learn about why these types of events are important to the community, what Members can gain from attending, as well as learn more about what type of events we can expect to see in 2020.

A reminder that Members can WIN two free tickets for the monthly Wellness Wednesday events (a $30-40 value). See the suggestion box in the kitchen for more details about this monthly drawing.

AB: Tell us more about Awakened Mana. Why did you decide to start a company like this?

DD: I’ve always loved organizing events and bringing people together. During a sound healing meditation a few years ago it hit me- this is incredible and more people need to experience this! A month later I was planning my first event at a friends warehouse, and it was very well attended. After a few successful pop up events, I made it official and created Awakened Mana. Our vision is that:

We are creators of conscious events. We provide the platform to inspire, create, nourish and connect to a deeper level internally and with the surrounding community. With a focus on movement, healing, sustainability, growth and community, our events inspire reflection and an awakened consciousness. We invite you to Uplift your Soul!

AB: Tell us more about some of the events you’ve hosted in 2019 and what we can expect for the remainder of the year?

DD: This year Awakened Mana has collaborated with a special group of healers! We’ve had several Sound Healing journeys, a Cacao Ceremony, a workshop on How to Brew Kombucha, and an Intro to Herbal Medicine.

It’s hard to believe that we only have TWO events left for the year! Sound Healing on October 16th with Bryan Jordan, and NEW to the Wellness Wednesday line-up: a Light and Sound Meditation Experience on November 13th. Both offer attendees an opportunity for deep relaxation and meditation, and both events are suitable for beginners. Give yourself the opportunity for this relaxing experience, so we invite you to make time for yourself as we gear into the busy holiday season!

AB: Some of our members might not be aware of some of these things: can you explain what a Cacao Ceremony is and why in the world someone might want to partake in a Sound Healing event?

DD: A Cacao Ceremony combines Cacao (the raw, unrefined form of chocolate) and Sound Healing. Ceremonial cacao comes from Guatemala and is a natural plant medicine and superfood. It is hand prepared to preserve all the antioxidants, minerals, cocoa butter, and other compounds that make it a highly effective superfood. Attendees drink the cacao, and are guided through meditation with sound.

Sound Healing uses the vibrations of a variety of instruments to relax the body and mind. Participants either lay or sit comfortably on yoga mats for the duration of the journey, and experience a deep meditative state. Some of the instruments used include gongs, crystal bowls, rain stick, drums, digeredoo, voice, chimes and more.

AB: What types of events can we look forward to in 2020?

DD: Members can look forward to more Sound Healing events featuring instruments like Gongs, Crystal Bowls, Didgeridoos and for the first time – a Harp! We’ll also feature a homemade body care class with Hub team member Andrea, who’s also a chef and educator. Kombucha brewing and much more!

Climathon Events + This Week’s Newsletter

In partnership with Member organization Zero Waste Oahu, we are excited to announce the schedule for our Climathon on October 26. With leading climate experts and organizations, you’ll be sure to find something awesome, engaging, and inspiring.

There will be three public workshops during the day and a pizza & film night for everyone starting at 6pm. Thanks to Hawaii Business Magazine for being our media partner. If you would like to help sponsor or support the event, please reply to this email to connect with George Yarbrough.

Not sure if the event is a fit? We’ve put together two articles explaining what, exactly is a hackathon, and how your local action has global impact.

Everyone is welcome at all the events! Click here to register and learn more!

✨UPCOMING EVENTS✨

IMPACT HUB HONOLULU WILL BE CLOSED MONDAY OCTOBER 14TH IN OBSERVATION OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES’ DAY. As usual, members with unlimited plans, offices and designated desks will have access.

Vegan Dinner & Kirtan

Sunday, October 13, 2019 at 5PM – 7PM. Join us for a fun evening of good food, music, and company. Free! Learn more here.

 

 

Pono Home Essentials Trunk Show – Monthly Event

Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 12PM – 2PM. Come sample and purchase locally-made zero-waste body care from Pono Home Essentials. Learn more here.

 

Wellness Wednesdays: Sound Healing with Bryan Jordan

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 6:30 PM – 8 PM. Sound healing is a deeply meditative practice that anyone can enjoy! Bryan plays crystal singing bowls & the didgeridoo to help clear your energy field and prepare you for deep relaxation. $15. Learn more here.

Freelancer’s Network: Grow Your Inbound Funnel with Digital Marketing

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 12 PM – 1:30 PM. Improve and transform your Inbound Marketing funnel using the latest field-proven strategies. Free!

Click to learn more – currently sold out – but, we almost always have space. Click the link sign up for waitlist. 

Civics & Plastics Workshop: City Council Bill 40 Reboot

Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 5 PM – 7:30 PM. Get your voice heard in the fight against single-use plastic. Free. Learn more about founder of ZWO Nicole in our blog feature here.

Learn more and register here.

How to Improve Hawaii’s Business Climate

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 at 5 PM – 6:30 PM. An important discussion about improving Hawaii’s business climate with Steve Petranik, editor of Hawaii Business Magazine & Kam Napier, editor-in-chief of Pacific Business News. $15.

Learn more an register here.

✨COMMUNITY NEWS✨

Elemental Excelerator Town Square + Cohort Demo

Friday, October 11, 2pm-7pm: Our Impact Partner Elemental Excelerator is hosting a Town Square event to announce their new cohort companies and an awesome lineup of featured guests. Learn more and register here.

Climathon Works Locally to Create Global Impact: Here’s How you Can Participate

Local action can have global impact, and the upcoming Climathon Honolulu gives you a chance to do just that. The Climathon day of action will be held October 26 and 27, in partnership with Zero Waste Oahu. The event is an all-day climate design challenge hackathon (learn more about what, exactly, a hackathon is here) to help solve local issues. Find all current event details and full schedule here.

What is Climathon?

Climathon, a project of Climate-KIC and under the auspice of the European Union, has the official mission of empowering a global wave  of  change-makers and innovators to help humanity achieve zero emissions in 20 to 30 years. Last year the Global Climathon included 113 cities with over 5000 participants and 400+ solutions – and this year will be bigger than ever. This year, the Climathon team connected with Impact Hub Global, joining together these two organizations to build ongoing climate solutions.

In Honolulu, a diverse group of stakeholders convened to design the first Climathon for Honolulu. The group determined that reducing the human impact of tourism in Honolulu would be a great target area to start. Thus the question to tackle is: How do we reduce the human impact of tourism in Honolulu?

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Using the hackathon format, groups will get together to create solutions to this question. These solutions can be high-tech, low-tech, policy driven, or other. We’re looking forward to hearing solutions from all types of participants: entrepreneurs, activists, families, government, non-profit, small business owners, and more! There will be a preliminary competition on Saturday, and on Sunday final decision will be made and prizes awarded.

Some of the cool solutions that other cities have created in previous Climathon events include:

  • In Edinburgh, Scotland, they focused on building a circular economy around food, and improving food security. Their solutions included IntelliAD, an autonomous, ultra-small-scale organic waste digester for onsite waste recycling and a aquaponics solution to make more food in smaller spaces.
  • The city of Leeds, in UK, proposed “Plants for Pollution,” which included vertical garden installations and moss framed billboards that would absorb pollution, beautify the city, enhance its reputation and improve wellbeing, making use of limited space to add green infrastructure to places in the city where space is a premium.
  • Shanghai LinGang wants to create zero carbon “smart mobility” solutions for the new city, which has less population and less public transit opportunity than other parts of the city.
  • In Washington DC, the solution was a furniture moving and repurposing business to reduce overall waste in the city.

These workshops include Project Drawdown, Sierra Club of Hawaii, and the Office of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resiliency. There will also be a film night showing Infected Earth, a documentary from a local documentarian, Dr. Darragh O’Carroll. All of these events are free and open to the public. Find all current event details and full schedule here. If you want to register a pitch at the Hackathon, sign up here.

Hawaii Kai Location Taking Office Reservations

If you’re looking for a new office in Hawaii Kai, this is your chance. We’re currently taking reservations for our Hawaii Kai office and coworking space, scheduled to open March 2020. This is the first coworking space in Hawaii Kai, and gives those on the East side of the island the opportunity to join a vibrant community of connection and innovation without having to drive into town. If you need office space in Honolulu, we currently have a few offices open at our Kakaako location, too.

The Impact Hub Hawaii Kai location is approximately 7,200 square feet, and is on the second floor, which gives our members awesome views of the marina. This location will have coworking desks and tables overlooking the water, private meeting rooms of various sizes, phone booths, multiple private office spaces of various sizes, and a communal kitchen. And it will have our unique and fun approach to design, so expect lots of art and colors.

hawaii kai office space Impact Hub

hawaii kai office space design Impact Hub

We recently hosted a Wefunder investment campaign to raise funds to build out this space, and we’re excited to bring an Impact Hub location to Hawaii Kai, to continue our mission of helping businesses do well and do good. Co-Founder George Yarbrough says of the new location: “I’m excited to co-create a space for community and business in Hawaii Kai. I grew up in Hawaii Kai and I have fond memories of that area. I’m happy to be able to participate and be a part of the community again.”

Our goal is to open multiple locations across the islands, yet our expansion took us to Hawaii Kai first. “We chose to expand to here because it was the community that approached us first and showed immediate interest. It can also help reduce or eliminate the need to commute to town for those living in East Oahu,” says George.

Office holders and unlimited members will have access to BOTH Impact Hub locations with one membership, so you can choose to work in town or in Hawaii Kai as your weekly schedule dictates. All Honolulu and Hawaii Kai members are also eligible for the Impact Hub Global passport, giving you three days of coworking at Impact Hub locations around the world, and gives you access to our growing collection of local Member discounts.

If you want to learn more about the offices, pricing, and placing a reservation, or if you have other questions, please contact us here.

What the Heck is Climathon + This Week’s Newsletter

Climate Action is happening all over the world! Citizens are marching in cities, and watching as a young woman from Sweden takes on the global leadership at the UN to make real commitments in taking action

This movement is a global imperative AND it’s a local movement. This is why we’re so excited to host our upcoming Climathon Honolulu Hackathon in October. We realized some people might not be familiar with the Hackathon concept behind this event, so we wrote an explainer here.

TL;DR: we’re gathering the community together for a full-day of solutions building on October 26, and we’d love for you to get involved. Event registration forthcoming! 

We’re also VERY excited to announce that these events will be hosted in partnership with Zero Waste Oahu! Learn more about this great organization here.

Zero-Waste & Sustainability Marketplace

TONIGHT, September 26, 2019 at 5:30PM. As part of the pre-programming to Climathon Honolulu, we’re gathering for a Marketplace to help you vote with your dollars for local businesses making zero-waste, sustainable products. You’ll find food, gifts, activist booths and MORE! Potluck pau hana. BYO utensils, plates, and bags. Learn more here.

✨UPCOMING EVENTS✨

Be The Change ~ Impact Travel Gathering

Thursday, October 3, 2019 at 6 PM – 8:30 PM. Mix and mingle as you rotate through travel stations & meeting new friends as you explore the hot new world of group impact travel by Thrive Global. Learn more and register/$3-$5.

Pono Home Essentials Trunk Show – Monthly Event

Tuesday, October 15, 2019 at 12PM – 2PM. Come sample and purchase locally-made zero-waste body care from Pono Home Essentials. Learn more here.

Freelancer’s Network: Grow Your Inbound Funnel with Digital Marketing

Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 12 PM – 1:30 PM. Improve and transform your Inbound Marketing funnel using the latest field-proven strategies and techniques in Digital Marketing. Learn more and register.

✨COMMUNITY NEWS✨

Meet Tippi, the ‘travelatarian’ behind social travel group Thrive Global. Tippi leads adults on service trips around the world and gives back to local Hawaii organizations too. Learn more about her cool organization and WHAT’S UP with Anne’s wacky costumes here in our most recent member feature.

Hawaii’s Changing Ocean

THURSDAY, October 3, 6:30PM-8pm: Mark Hixon is one of the most cited scientific author on coral-reef ecology in the US. In this talk, he will summarize the many gifts our ocean provides us, describe human-caused threats to our coastal ecosystems, and review solutions he believes we must implement. Presented by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the Hawai‘i Community Foundation. Learn more and register here.

HANOCON

THURSDAY/FRIDAY, October 10-11. HANOCON, from the Hawaii Alliance for Non-Profit Organizations (HANO), is the largest annual gathering bringing together nonprofit professionals–as well as sector allies, supporters, and advocates – to network, learn, share ideas, and collaborate. Learn more and register here.

What’s a Hackathon – and How Can we Create Climate Solutions with our Climathon?

Last week we kicked off our Honolulu Climathon with a Climate Action Talk Story event featuring local experts, activists, and business leaders to share their vision for a cleaner, greener future. If you missed the event, see the slideshow here to get all the great tips from our presenters about climate action you can take NOW.

At the event, we realized that people don’t know what hackathons are, so we’re going to share a bit more about why this event is so cool, and how you can get involved!

Perhaps some of you are familiar with the term hackathon? A hackathon is a sprint-like event (of various duration) that allows people to work together for a common goal. The hackathon concept comes from the world of coding and programming, where groups of programmers would gather to build a new app or software program. This one’s a bit different, as we’re focused on climate solutions, which can be high tech, low tech, or public policy hacks.

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hackathon

The Climathon (climate + hackathon) goal is to hack solutions to our designated question: how we can reduce the human impact of tourism in Honolulu. At the Honolulu Climathon, we’re gathering together in an all-day event featuring films, workshops, and the Hackathon to encourage out-of-the-box thinking about these important subjects. Together the community can collectively find the solutions we need to mitigate the effects of tourism on the island.

To do this we need to work together on all levels: consumers, students, government, policy-makers, non-profits, educators, businesses, and families need to be engaged in this work. Please join us on Saturday, October 26 for an all-day event [final event details forthcoming].

We’re hosting one more Climathon event this week Thursday. Join us for the Sustainability Marketplace, with many of the same businesses and experts that were featured in the previous event. Come meet the experts and companies making a difference here in Hawaii, and shop locally owned and operated (and zero-waste) products. See some of the vendors here in our Instagram post.