Fall 2022 Professional Development Institute Week sessions, Dec. 12-14

Aloha, Early Mele Kalikimaka, and Hauʻoli Makahiki Hou!

The December Professional Development Institute Week, Dec. 12-16, is an opportunity for UH West Oʻahu faculty and staff to participate in sessions presented by and for UH West Oʻahu employees.

Check out the sessions below and register to attend!

Updated Professional Development Institute Week sessions:

Monday, Dec. 12
Title: Faculty engaged teaching, research, and scholarship
Time: Noon-1 p.m.
Description: This session will include a reading of a paper on literary journals “Seaweeds and Constructions” published in Honolulu and “Mana Review” published in Suva between 1976-1979 alongside Robert Sullivan’s “Star Waka” (1999) in which every poem has a star, a waka or the ocean. Star Waka will be joined by a discourse around awa (rivers) in Hone Tuwhare’s Deep River Talk (1993) focused on Māori kōrero (stories) and a brief legal jurisprudence. These poems and stories will support understanding a quantum oceanic worldview which extends to the present in which a proto- or pan-oceanic logos counterposes Western law’s nomos with an Oceanic jurisdiction that raises alarms at the the ideas set out by Hugo Grotius on Westphalian Law of the Sea in which humankind is a “common” sovereign over both land and sea, while suggesting that the jurisprudence of the Ākua (Gods) vis-a-vis tangata’s (humans) is supreme above all, and it is waka that connects tangata to the Gods/Langi, and fonua that births and buries tangata from/with the Ancestors.
Session Submitter/Facilitator: Lea Kinikini, IRES
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 Tuesday, Dec. 13
Title: Embodied Action for Educators and Leaders Program: (Re)Design Rest Restoratively
Time: 9-10:30 a.m. UPDATED TIME*
Description: In this interactive workshop, participants will learn about the Embodied Action for Educators and Leaders program that provides space for academic reflection of what it means for faculty/staff and their work. We can redefine rest as integrative recharging and shifting through 7 types of rest: physical, mental, emotional, social, sensory, creative and spiritual. When you connect into feelings, emotions, sensations, mind-body, your tolerance for building resources and resilience grows. Come explore what you need to (re)design in your days and break.
Submitter: Rebecca Romine, Associate Professor, MNHS
Facilitator: Tamara Yakaboski, Embodied Action for Educators and Leaders Program
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 Wednesday, Dec. 14
Title: Talk Story: Mo’olelo Around African-American Holiday Traditions
Time: 11 a.m.-noon
Description: In this talk story session participants will be invited to explore and discover the historical background and significance of African American traditions celebrated around the Christmas holidays and New Year. This session will be interactive, in that attendees will be invited to share and come away with tangible activities that can be incorporated with their personal cultural traditions.
Submitter: Lynette Williamson, Assistant Professor, MNHS
Co-Facilitator: Syreeta Washington, M.Ed. – Instructor/Counselor, Early College, Leeward Community College
To register, click here.