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Training Materials & Disclaimer for Community Relational Training & Sacred Sons Organization

1. Professional Services Disclaimer: The content provided in this CRT manual, including but not limited to text, resources, and general information, is for informational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for professional therapy, counseling, or any other mental health services.

2. No Therapeutic Relationship: The use of this CRT manual/framework or communication through this framework does not create a facilitator-client relationship. If you are seeking therapy, please advise participants to contact a licensed professional to schedule an appointment.

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4. No Guarantee of Results: Although the facilitators at Sacred Sons Organization are trained professionals, we do not guarantee specific outcomes or results from therapy. The effectiveness of therapy depends on various factors, including individual commitment, participation, and unique circumstances.

5. Licensing and Regulation: CRT facilitators operating under Sacred Sons Organization are trained in the Community Relational Training framework as developed and defined by this organization. This training does not confer licensure in mental health, psychology, psychiatry, social work, or any other regulated clinical profession. Facilitators are not licensed therapists unless separately credentialed by an independent licensing body. Sacred Sons Organization operates in accordance with applicable laws and regulations governing peer support, community facilitation, and somatic wellness practices. Participants are encouraged to consult their local regulatory bodies for jurisdiction-specific guidance on therapeutic services

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Contributor Bios

Co-Founder of Sacred Sons

Adam Jackson is a co-founder and chief visionary of Sacred Sons, a global movement dedicated to embodying healthy masculinity, conscious leadership, and community-based transformation.

As a father-of-four, facilitator, and cultural architect, Adam holds a steady presence that invites men and women into deeper connection with themselves, each other, and the earth.

Guided by a commitment to authenticity and embodied truth, Adam has spent years designing experiences that support personal growth through brotherhood, ritual, and relational practice.

His work bridges ancient wisdom with modern embodiment, helping people remember their inherent power, purpose, and belonging.

Through gatherings like Convergence, Remembrance, and Summit, Adam continues to guide communities toward connection and prosperity.

His voice is known for its grounded clarity, his leadership for its steadiness, and his mission for its devotion to ushering brotherhood to the forefront of our human family.

Kale Kamaki Makauhaole Kaalekahi

Co-Founder of Sacred Sons

Kale is a cultural consultant, speaker, and ceremonialist. He lives with his wife and daughter on the island of Maui, where the land, the ocean, and the rhythms of daily life are not separate from his work. They are the source of it.

He is a new father, and that has changed the lens through which he sees everything. Watching his daughter come into the world made the question of what we pass to the next generation less philosophical and more urgent and practical. It is no longer something he thinks about. It is something he tends to every single day.

Kale has spent nearly two decades in place-based education, rites of passage facilitation, and formation work rooted in the understanding that identity and character are not taught in classrooms. They require culture. They are forged through challenge, through ceremony, through relationship with land, community, and elderhood. That conviction has shaped everything he has built and every circle he has held.

His work has always been multigenerational. While his foundation is in cultural work, rites of passage for young men have been at the center of his calling. Human work requires diverse experiences, Kale had facilitated for in wilderness settings, in ceremony, around fires, and has watched what happens when a young man is held by a standard and surrounded by people who genuinely believe that the boy is capable of meeting it. He has seen it change hundreds of young men. He has seen those young men change their families. He has seen what moves through a community when enough of that happens in one generation.

Kumu Anna Lisa Kalauokekupukupu Espiritu Abuan McKeon

Women’s Leader Sacred Sons

Kumu Anna Lisa Kalauokekupukupu Espiritu Abuan McKeon is wife, mom, future tūtū, and everyone's auntie. A cultural practitioner, teacher, and visionary devoted to the preservation, perpetuation, and living expression of ancestral wisdom. Rooted in the sacred traditions of Hawai‘i and enriched through a lifetime of cross-cultural study, she carries a lineage that bridges dance, ceremony, land stewardship, and earth-based healing.

What began as a love for movement became a lifelong path of culture, connection, and responsibility. She began her journey in ballet, studying under Joan Golden, with training rooted in the Vaganova and Cecchetti methods, and continued with hula Hālau He Inoa No Ipu Lei Manu under the direction of Denise Bigelow. From there, she was called to deepen her studies across Polynesia. Training in Tahitian dance and drumming with Mapuhi Tuku Tekurio of Tekurio Nui, and Samoan fire knife dance with Mel Liufau of Nonosina. For Kumu Anna Lisa, dance has never been about performance alone. It is a sacred vessel for lineage.

She is the founder of Kūhai Hālau Nā Liko Kupukupu i Ka Lani Pā ‘Ōlapa Kahiko, a hula school grounded in the preservation and living practice of traditional Hawaiian knowledge, values, and ceremony. She completed her uniki (sacred graduation rites) under the guidance of Loea Kawaikapuokalani Frank Hewett, who entrusted her with the kuleana to carry this work forward with integrity. Through this lineage, hula is lived, not just learned. Holding genealogy, language, history, and a profound spiritual relationship to the land.

Within her hālau, students from keiki to kūpuna are guided beyond movement. Chant, protocol, plant wisdom, and deep connection to nature are woven into the practice. Her teaching invites people to remember where they come from and how to live in the right relationship with the world around them. That relationship extends to the land itself. Kumu Anna Lisa integrates land stewardship, eco-conscious building, and regenerative living into her work, emphasizing that how we care for the Earth is inseparable from how we carry culture.

Every choice, how we build, grow, and live, becomes part of the practice.

Her path has also led her into earth-based healing traditions through her studies with Sage L. Maurer of The Gaia School of Healing and the lineage of Marysia Miernowska of The School of the Sacred Wild. Through these wise women teachings, she continues to deepen her relationship with plants, ancestral knowledge, and holistic, land-based healing.

At her core, Kumu Anna Lisa is a bridge-builder, bringing people together across cultures, generations, and geographies. She has cultivated meaningful relationships with teachers, students, and communities around the world.

Her work honors the past, tends to the present, and helps ensure that future generations remain deeply connected to culture, to one another, and to the living Earth.

Marni Suu Reynolds MBA, PhD Researcher

Women’s Leader, Sacred Sons

Born in Costa Rica to a Burmese Mother and Irish/Scottish Father, Marni is a Mother of 2, and was raised in Hawaii. She currently lives in between Hawaii and Thailand where she is conducting doctoral research in “How We Heal: Healing Collective Trauma with Gender Inclusion and Compassion to Address Social Suffering.” Marni has over 28+years in the private and non-profit sectors focused in the areas of collective trauma healing, trauma wellness development and humanitarian aid programming. Over the last 25+ years, Marni has curated, facilitated and developed trauma-informed wellness curricula for corporations, institutions, and educational settings, including community centers, retreats, private businesses, humanitarian and monastic settings. Marni has worked in the community relational facilitation field since 2003, working with men and women healing groups across several countries. Marni’s work blends the holistic approach with behavioral science, healing, neuroscience and wellness modalities.

A published author, Marni has presented her doctoral research at: Stockholm University “Men & Masculinities” Conference, Cambridge University - ASEAS Conference, Edinburgh University - “ASEAN Conference, Chiang Mai University - “ICBMS 4 Conference”, and Northern Illinois University - “Burma Studies” Conference. Marni is Certified Trauma & Somatic Specialist -Trauma Research Foundation. Certified Mindfulness Teacher by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D. and Tara Brach, Ph.D. This certification is by the University of California at Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, a Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, an IMTA accredited two-year training. A Certified Hatha Yoga Teacher & Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher (RYT1000) and an Ordained Spiritual Healer, Sacred Path Healing School 2003.

Marni has worked and traveled to over 42 countries including in the United States, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Peru, Egypt, UK, Canada, Polynesia, and throughout Europe and Asia. A meditation practitioner with over 40+ years of devotional practice, which began in the Buddhist temples of Burma (Myanmar) at age 13. She has practiced in monastic and retreat centers including: Thich Nhat Hanh Monastery, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Tassajara Mountain Zen Center, Palolo Zen Center, Hawaii Vipassana and Myanmar Vipassana Center (Burma), Wat Sopharam Vipassana International Meditation Center, Thailand Vipassana Chiang Mai and more.

She has been featured in “55 Faces – Global Edition 2024” – The Aspire Series. Launched her own podcast, The Golden Thread Podcast in 2020 and advocated for humanitarian rights for societal health and trauma advocacy at United Nations UNESCAP Summit in Bangkok, Thailand 2025.