Get ready!
Get ready!
2025–2026
Global Eahou
Immersion Cohort
The Global Eahou Immersion is a cohort of local and global leaders that will take part in a virtual and in-person, place-based learning experience, including a three-day immersion and a three-day public festival based on Oʻahu. Participants will explore how ancestral knowledge, technology, and entrepreneurship intersect to shape a regenerative, inclusive economy.
Applications are open until October 8, 2025.
Apply early for the best chance to be considered.
Get ready!
2025–2026
Global Eahou
Immersion Cohort
The Global Eahou Immersion is a cohort of local and global leaders that will take part in a virtual and in-person, place-based learning experience, including a three-day immersion and a three-day public festival based on Oʻahu. Participants will explore how ancestral knowledge, technology, and entrepreneurship intersect to shape a regenerative, inclusive economy.
Applications are open until October 8, 2025.
Apply early for the best chance to be considered.
Our Ethos
Our Ethos
Our Ethos
Why Eahou?
Eahou embodies a vision of empowered, sovereign community and fresh beginnings—especially through self-determination, cultural grounding, and regenerative economy.
Eahou embodies a vision of empowered, sovereign community and fresh beginnings—especially through self-determination, cultural grounding, and regenerative economy.
Ea (n.)
Sovereignty, life, and to rise. Driving vision for regenerative futures through tradition and action.
Hou (vs.)
New, fresh, pushing for more. Fuel for resilient innovation and community well-being.
Building a Values-based Cohort
Areas of Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Areas of Expertise
Who We're Looking For
We encourage participants to have the support of their organization, community, or institution, and to be ready to integrate learnings into their ongoing work and networks. While not required, it is beneficial if you bring a platform, practice, or initiative that has the potential to grow or influence others. We welcome cultural practitioners, organizers, technologists, and visionaries committed to justice and innovation, with at least 10 years of experience, within:
Aloha ʻĀina
Biocultural Restoration
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Cooperatives
Circular Economies
Food Security
Community Health Solutions
Housing
Land Stewardship
Data Sovereignty
Tech for Social Good
Aloha ʻĀina
Biocultural Restoration
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Cooperatives
Circular Economies
Food Security
Health and Healing Systems
Housing
Land Stewardship
Data Sovereignty
Tech for Social Good
Aloha ʻĀina
Biocultural Restoration
Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Cooperatives
Circular Economies
Food Security
Health and Healing Systems
Housing
Land Stewardship
Data Sovereignty
Tech for Social Good
Cohort Programming
Alignment
Alignment
Alignment
Why Apply
We’re gathering a diverse community of leaders, practitioners, and creators who are grounded in values of reciprocity, justice, and innovation. As part of this cohort, you’ll engage with peers across cultures and sectors, weaving together ancestral knowledge and emerging technologies to shape regenerative futures. This is not just about individual growth. It’s about carrying forward what you learn, strengthening your work, your community, and the networks you steward.
Applications are open until October 8, 2025.
Apply early for the best chance to be considered.
We’re gathering a diverse community of leaders, practitioners, and creators who are grounded in values of reciprocity, justice, and innovation. As part of this cohort, you’ll engage with peers across cultures and sectors, weaving together ancestral knowledge and emerging technologies to shape regenerative futures. This is not just about individual growth. It’s about carrying forward what you learn, strengthening your work, your community, and the networks you steward.
Applications are open until October 8, 2025. Apply early for the best chance to be considered.
The Journey
The Journey
Shaping the Experience
Shaping the Experience Together
What You'll Gain
Through this experience, you’ll deepen relationships and engage in cross-cultural collaboration, while receiving the support and inspiration needed to advance your project or practice.
You’ll gain exposure to community-led solutions rooted in Hawaiian worldviews, and find opportunities for global visibility and shared advocacy. Most importantly, you’ll have the time and space to reflect, reset, and reimagine what’s possible in your work.
Expected Outcomes
This program seeks to amplify Indigenous voices and leadership in shaping global systems change, while demonstrating how cultural traditions and economic innovation can move in alignment.
It is designed to foster lasting relationships, mentorship, and networks that extend beyond the cohort itself, and to contribute to a growing global movement for Indigenous self-determination, healing, and regeneration.
The Journey
Shaping the Experience
What You'll Gain
Through this experience, you’ll deepen relationships and engage in cross-cultural collaboration, while receiving the support and inspiration needed to advance your project or practice.
You’ll gain exposure to community-led solutions rooted in Hawaiian worldviews, and find opportunities for global visibility and shared advocacy. Most importantly, you’ll have the time and space to reflect, reset, and reimagine what’s possible in your work.
Expected Outcomes
This program seeks to amplify Indigenous voices and leadership in shaping global systems change, while demonstrating how cultural traditions and economic innovation can move in alignment.
It is designed to foster lasting relationships, mentorship, and networks that extend beyond the cohort itself, and to contribute to a growing global movement for Indigenous self-determination, healing, and regeneration.
Traveling With the Cohort
Traveling With the Cohort
Traveling With the Cohort
Important Dates
2026 Travel Dates
and Accommodations
A 6-day celebration of moʻolelo (storytelling), ea (sovereignty, life, breath), and place-based innovation, showcasing circular, regenerative, and self-sufficient economic futures for Hawai‘i. All travel, lodging, meals, and programming costs are covered for cohort participants.
Nov
2025
Nov
2025
Nov
2025
Digital Cohort Begins
Digital Cohort Begins
Digital Cohort Begins
Apr 27
& May 3
Apr 27
& May 3
Apr 27
& May 3
Travel Dates to
and from O'ahu
Travel Dates to
and from O'ahu
Travel Dates to
and from O'ahu
Apr 28
thr 30
Apr 28
thr 30
Apr 28
thr 30
In-person
Immersion Cohort
In-person
Immersion Cohort
In-person
Immersion Cohort
May 1
thr 3
May 1
thr 3
30
people
Eahou Fest
Eahou Fest
Eahou Fest
Our 'Ohana
Our 'Ohana
Our 'Ohana
Who's Involved?
This opportunity is a collaboration between Purple Maiʻa Foundation (PMF)—on a mission to empower the next generation of culturally grounded, community-serving technologists and problem solvers—and Breakout, an organization that creates immersive, place-based experiences to connect people, place, and purpose. Together, we’re bringing a global community working toward regenerative, just futures.
Immersion Facilitator
Hi'ilani Shibata
Hawaiian educator and co-founder of the Ka Mahina Project, dedicated to mālama ʻāina (to care for the land), mauli ola (power of healing), and kaiāulu (community).
Hawaiian educator and co-founder of the Ka Mahina Project, dedicated to mālama ʻāina (to care for the land), mauli ola (power of healing), and kaiāulu (community).
Hawaiian educator and co-founder of the Ka Mahina Project, dedicated to mālama ʻāina (to care for the land), mauli ola (power of healing), and kaiāulu (community).
Immersion Partner
Nation of Hawaiʻi
Nation of Hawai'i’s mission is to restore, maintain and preserve the sophisticated religion, language and culture of the Native Hawaiian people, who prior to the overthrow, lived in a highly organized, self-sufficient, subsistent social system based on communal land tenure.
Nation of Hawai'i’s mission is to restore, maintain and preserve the sophisticated religion, language and culture of the Native Hawaiian people, who prior to the overthrow, lived in a highly organized, self-sufficient, subsistent social system based on communal land tenure.
Nation of Hawai'i’s mission is to restore, maintain and preserve the sophisticated religion, language and culture of the Native Hawaiian people, who prior to the overthrow, lived in a highly organized, self-sufficient, subsistent social system based on communal land tenure.
Partner Org
Purple Maiʻa Foundation
We are on a mission to educate and empower the next generation of culturally grounded, community serving technology makers and problem solvers.
We are on a mission to educate and empower the next generation of culturally grounded, community serving technology makers and problem solvers.
We are on a mission to educate and empower the next generation of culturally grounded, community serving technology makers and problem solvers.
Partner Org
Breakout
Creating immersive, place-based experiences that connect people, communities, and purpose across industries and backgrounds.
Creating immersive, place-based experiences that connect people, communities, and purpose across industries and backgrounds.
Creating immersive, place-based experiences that connect people, communities, and purpose across industries and backgrounds.
FAQ
FAQ
Nīnau? Questions?
If you still have questions, please email us at: laurasofia@breakout.today
Who can apply to the Eahou Immersion?
What costs are covered?
What’s the time commitment?
When do applications open and close?
What areas of work are you prioritizing?
Do applicants need to integrate technology in their work?
Will I need to apply for a visa?
Can I lead a panel or workshop?
Who can apply to the Eahou Immersion?
What costs are covered?
What’s the time commitment?
When do applications open and close?
What areas of work are you prioritizing?
Do applicants need to integrate technology in their work?
Will I need to apply for a visa?
Can I lead a panel or workshop?
FAQ
Nīnau? Questions?
If you still have questions, please email us at: laurasofia@breakout.today
Who can apply to the Eahou Immersion?
What costs are covered?
What’s the time commitment?
When do applications open and close?
What areas of work are you prioritizing?
Do applicants need to integrate technology in their work?
Will I need to apply for a visa?
Can I lead a panel or workshop?
Apply or Nominate
Apply or Nominate
Apply or Nominate Someone for the
Global Eahou Immersion Cohort
Applications are open until October 8, 2025.
Apply early for the best chance to be considered.
Apply or Nominate
Apply or Nominate Someone for the Global Eahou Immersion Cohort 2026
Applications are open until October 8, 2025. Apply early for the best chance to be considered.