About Us
Our Mission
To support the successful resolution of conflict, applying Nonviolent Communication to build connection and bring peace to the world.
Who We Are
We offer training in Nonviolent Communication mediation, and provide trained mediators to help everyone move through conflict in a way that builds connection and meets the needs of all involved.
Our Non-profit
Maluhia Mediation is a project of the Teran James Young Foundation, which also does business under the name of NVCnextgen. The Teran James Young Foundation is a non-profit whose mission is to bring peace to the world by cultivating Non-Violent Communication in the next generation (hence, the NVCnextgen moniker).
Along with Maluhia Mediation, the Teran James Young Foundation offers many other services and programs to the island’s schools and greater community, including the Hale PonoYouth Shelter, a short-term shelter for at-risk youth, and the Restorative Justice Center, which offers education in restorative justice and restorative justice services. To learn more about these programs and services, please visit our foundation’s website at teranjy.org.
Meet Our Team
Founder/Mediator
Genesis Young is trained in nonviolent communication style relational mediation. He works with private clients and runs a nonviolent communication mediation weekly public class for years in person and currently online. This is a vigorous international group that practices mediation with each other with conflicts the members have in their lives. Our work is to use conflict as a medium to have increasing connection and therefore more peace in the world.
Mediator/Programs Director
David Litman, (MA, MFT), has over 25 years of experience applying Nonviolent Communication in mediation, counseling, personal coaching, training, and organizational development. Initially certified as a mediator through the Santa Barbara Mediation Group in 1995, he currently conducts Nonviolent Communication mediations and trains mediators in Nonviolent Communication mediation through Maluhia Mediation courses and practice groups. David has helped hundreds of individuals and groups resolve conflict in a manner that effectively meets the needs of all.
Mediator
Hawkeye Lannis is a dedicated Nonviolent Communication and Restorative Practices facilitator who works diligently to educate the young minds of Maui youth about conflict resolution, needs awareness, and social emotional well-being, and collaborates with teachers and counselors in schools across the island toward the implementation of Restorative Practices in our Maui educational system.
Hawkeye also utilizes his skills to aid the greater island community, offering classes teaching Nonviolent Communication and communication skills to the participants at Malama Family Recovery center (a live-in addiction recovery center for women and their children), in order to help them successfully re-integrate into society.
“At the core of all anger is a need that is not being fulfilled.”
― Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life