H-PEA 2025 POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP DAY
Friday September 18, 2026
at Kokua Kalihi Valley Hoʻoulu ʻĀina
3659 Kalihi St, Honolulu, HI 96819
We invite you to join us for a special day of learning, reflection, and connection at Hoʻoulu ʻĀina, a 100-acre nature preserve nestled in the back of Kalihi Valley on Oʻahu. Cared for by Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services, Hoʻoulu ʻĀina offers a unique space where community, culture, health, and the natural environment come together.
As part of our H-PEA post-conference experience, participants will have the opportunity to learn in and from this living landscape while engaging with fellow evaluators and community members. We offer a one-day program featuring two workshops and a nourishing lunch. Please see below for additional details about each workshop. Together, we will explore how place, relationships, and community wisdom can inform and strengthen our evaluation practice.
Workshop Day:
9:00-12:00 pm HST
Guided by Aloha, Co-Creating Evaluation with Community
Presenter: Kathy Tibbets, Pālama Lee, Dawn Mahi
Lunch provided by Hoʻoulu Āina
1:00-4:00 pm HST
Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services
Presenter: Megan Inada, KKV Research Coordinator
Friday, September 18, 2026 at
A workshop offered in person at Ho'oulu 'Āina
- Members $120
- Non-Member $170
- Membership Fee: $30, Click here to join.
Register by Tuesday, September 1, 2025
DESCRIPTIONS
Workshop 1: Guided by Aloha, Co-Creating Evaluation with Community
Building on ideas introduced in the 2026 H-PEA conference keynote, this 3-hour interactive workshop moves from concept to practice. Evaluators, advocates, and community leaders will explore how the Aloha Framework can inform real choices in evaluation design, stakeholder engagement, interpretation, and use. Together, we will translate core concepts—including aloha, ea (self-determination), and pili (deep relational connection)—into practices that strengthen accountability to communities and advance equity, justice, and the common good. Through guided activities, small-group dialogue, examples from practice, and shared reflection, participants will draw on the wisdom, lived experience, and questions in the room to co-create ways of applying akahai, lokahi, ʻoluʻolu, haʻahaʻa, and ahonui in their own settings as touchstones for culturally grounded, context-responsive evaluation. Participants will leave with practical tools, reflective prompts, and concrete approaches they can use in programs, policy, education, research, and community settings.
Workshop 2: Kōkua Kalihi Valley Comprehensive Family Services (KKV)
Workshop Description
Rooted in the living landscape of Hoʻoulu ʻĀina, a 100-acre nature preserve in Kalihi Valley, this workshop invites participants into a place-based learning experience that is both welcoming and rigorous. Drawing on Indigenous approaches to evaluation, the session centers ʻāina as teacher and measure, exploring how relationships to land and community reshape how we define success, accountability, and impact. Participants will engage in grounded inquiry that challenges conventional metrics and uplifts values such as reciprocity and collective well-being.
The ʻĀina Accountability Framework, developed with The Kohala Center, centers kuleana and familial relationships to ʻāina within evaluation and related practices. Through guided activities and small-group dialogue, participants will co-create a collective story rooted in their own experiences and relationships while examining how place-informed values guide culturally responsive evaluation.
Participants will explore how practices of remembrance, resilience, regeneration, and care can inform holistic measures of success, strengthen evaluation, and support healing across communities and systems. Participants will leave with a grounded understanding of ʻāina accountability and practical strategies for applying Indigenous, place-based approaches in their own contexts.