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Kalani Souza is founding director of the Olohana Foundation. Olohana focuses on building community capacity, cohesiveness, resilience, and emergency preparedness around food, energy, water, and knowledge systems.\\xa0 Kalani is a storyteller, singer, songwriter, musician, poet, philosopher, priest, political satirist, and peacemaker. A Hawaiian practitioner and cross-cultural facilitator, he has experience in promoting social justice through conflict resolution.\\xa0 Kalani\\u2019s native roots allow him a unique perspective of the collision of two worlds: one steeped in traditional culture and the other a juggernaut of new morality and changing economic and political persuasion. He is a messenger of integration and collaboration in a world normally rife with exclusion, oppression, and hopelessness. His work in behavior modification research, leadership, team-building, and political strategy gives him generous insights into group dynamics and systems of governance. He is a Coastal Community Resilience Trainer, a cultural competency consultant to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Pacific Services Center, a consultant to the Presidents Ocean Policy Task Force, and has taught Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawaii. Find him at www.http://olohana.org\\xa0

In this conversation focused on relationships and re-localization, Kalani speaks about how:

• In a multi-faceted life, his center is \\u201cthe community, the home, the children\\u2014the relationships\\u2026I work right here, within arm\\u2019s reach.\\u201d You have an impact by doing what you do in your local place.
• The simplest way to ensure a community\\u2019s well-being is to: \\u201cmake sure the children are fed, the old people are comfortable, and the women unafraid\\u201d\\u2014these achievements require solid infrastructure, healthy relationships, access to resources, healthy sources of energy, and a healthy environment.
• \\u201cSince we\\u2019re going to have adjustments [with climate change], we should strengthen our communities with food, fresh water, energy, shelter\\u2026gather our people in place and create real regional place-based capacity that is micro-sized and focuses on women and children\\u2019s well-being in their place.\\u201d \\u201cWe do this thing as family, deeply in relationship with each other.\\u201d We talk about how permaculture and Transition are crafting re-localization.\\xa0
• We are now able to contrast the colonialist \\u201cDoctrine of Discovery\\u201d focused on ownership with the \\u201cdoctrine of relationships\\u201d among people and between people and nature. Kalani speaks to economic injustice and our priorities as nations, questioning why we are not acting more forcefully.\\xa0
• A prayer he recently composed acknowledges our relationships with nature. He speaks it in Hawaiian and then English, explaining its focus on \\u201cthe relational aspect\\u201d of our existence with the natural world, who is The Family You\\u2019re Never Without.
• \\u201cWe are spirits having a physical awakening, so to me, the coffee is sacred, the red wine, these very physical things\\u201d\\xa0
• \\u201cI believe conflict is the opportunity for positive change. We need the conflict to change; it doesn\\u2019t have to lead to war or violence; it can lead to a sharing of needs and desires for the future\\u2026The answer must work for everyone!\\u201d

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