Care for land and water
Care for land, water, and food systems, and for the people they feed in return. Practiced through agriculture, service days, and youth stewardship.
Ka moʻomeheuCulture in practice
Culture is how we move.
Hawaiian values guide every gathering, workshop, and camp. This page shares the values we practice and the sources we honor.
Ka maka lehaAt a glance
What is culture-led wellness?
Culture-led wellness connects healing, leadership, mentorship, economic opportunity, and care for place. At Wahine Wellness, programs are relationships, practices, and pathways that help wāhine, youth, and families thrive with dignity. They are never isolated services.
Last updated: July 15, 2026
Ka moʻokūʻauhauLineage of care
Benevolence, research, lived experience, community action.
Wahine Wellness is grounded in a lineage of care. Queen Liliʻuokalani's example of organized benevolence inspires it. Native Hawaiian well-being research, including OHA's Haumea report, informs it. Misty Carter's research and lived experience in East Hawaiʻi shape it. The result is a place where women, youth, and families are supported through culture, education, mentorship, leadership, and economic opportunity.
Nā waiwaiValues in action
Values people can see.
Responsibility made visible
Showing up for a circle, mentoring a young person, preparing a grant, turning leadership into service.
Relationship as strength
The connective tissue of resilience: aunties, mentors, coaches, entrepreneurs, practitioners, and partners moving in the same direction.
Generosity organized
Benevolence made practical through scholarships, sponsorships, shared meals, technical help, and open doors. It names our giving circle, Ka Lokomaikaʻi Collective™.
Leadership that guides
Youth camps, business workshops, and community conversations give people places to practice leadership before they are asked to announce it.
Love of place
Love of place joined to stewardship: protecting food systems, culture, families, and future leaders together.
Nā hanaPractice in action
Our work in practice.
Wahine Wellness Resilient Hawaiʻi is a living impact story. This work has been shaped through community gatherings, cultural learning, research, mentorship, and collaborations that bring people together across Hawaiʻi and beyond. Each gathering helps us practice lokomaikaʻi: care from within, shared outward through relationship, responsibility, and collective uplift.
Palehua · Indigenous Restorative Justice
Life Comes From It gathering
At Palehua, more than 40 community members gathered for Indigenous restorative justice learning connected to Life Comes From It. This space reflected the heart of Ka Lokomaikaʻi Collective™: people coming together through care, accountability, cultural grounding, and collective healing.
Hoʻopono: Mutual Emergence gatherings
These gatherings welcome community members from Hawaiʻi and around the globe into shared learning, reflection, and practice. People slow down, listen deeply, reconnect with values, and explore restoration, relationship, healing, and collective responsibility. Wellness is relational: healing is connected to ʻohana, culture, place, and the ways we care for one another.
Place-based learning in Puna
Kū Mai Puna connects ʻāina, moʻolelo, healing, and leadership through huakaʻi and place-based learning. Community well-being is not separate from land, history, and relationships. When people gather in a place with intention, they reconnect with kuleana and imagine new pathways forward.
PilinaA reflection from a collaborator
"Wahine Wellness is Next Level Hawaiʻi."
"Wahine Wellness is Next Level Hawaiʻi. Collaborating with Misty Leilani Carter and her team of beloveds has been one of the most nourishing and joyful work of my life. Her acumen for organizing 300+ global and pae ʻāina participants for our weekly and monthly Hoʻopono classes through Zoom still amazes me, or when she came to Waolama, my Palehua home after making 50+ leis for an Indigenous Restorative Justice gathering focusing on Hoʻoponopono with Aunty Lynette Paglinawan. Misty even helped organize the logistics of Kū Mai Puna, an ʻaha hoʻoponopono of aloha ʻāina practitioners. Misty Carter is awake, intentional, and filled with the Spirit that helps us activate our evolutionary future. It is an honor to affirm, learn, and enjoy the work and vision of Wahine Wellness."
Manulani Aluli MeyerPalehua, Oʻahu
Nā haʻawinaWhat we practice
A living curriculum.
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Life transitions
Wāhine navigate caregiving, motherhood, grief, career change, and leadership inside a circle, never in isolation.
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ʻĀina-based learning
Agriculture, food systems, and land care build confidence, responsibility, and belonging for youth.
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Economic resilience
Business basics, grants, networking, financial confidence, and community-rooted entrepreneurship.
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The Queen's legacy
Compassion as leadership: care for children, families, and future generations through action.
Nā kumuResponsible sourcing
The sources we honor.
This page shares the program lens of Wahine Wellness. It is not a Hawaiian cultural glossary. We cite and collaborate with cultural practitioners, Native Hawaiian organizations, and community educators.
Ka huakaʻiThe next step
Turn culture into a pathway people can join.
Donors fund the work. Partners open spaces. Community members bring stories, skills, and care.