Hui Ho'olana

Name

Hui Ho'olana

Legal name

Hui Ho'olana

Website

https://huiho.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1994

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Retreat Services

NAICS

Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions (71219), Nature Parks and Other Similar Institutions (712190), Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products (113210)

SIC

Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000), Forestry (800), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Eco-Lodges (Sustainable/Nature-Based) (THAGAIAC)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community Forestry & Indigenous Land Stewardship Services (IMAMAJAM), Community-Based & Indigenous-Led Ecotourism (THAAAEAH), Ayurveda & Traditional Medicine Retreats (THAGAMAF)

Keywords

• Educational retreat programs
• Photography workshops
• Healing arts workshops
• Native reforestation
• Arts education

Headquarters

HQ city

Kualapuu

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Revenue model

1. Workshop Fees and Teacher Donations: Workshop fees go directly from students to teachers. The teacher in turn makes a donation to Hui Ho'olana to assist with their expenses. This income goes directly back into the organization and community for supplies, services, utilities, land lease, and operations.
2. Donations and Contributions: Hui Ho'olana is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Donations can be one-time or recurring (monthly or yearly) and can be designated for General funding, Native Plant Restoration program, Butterfly Sanctuary, scholarships, guest teachers, reforestation or local projects. Suggested donation levels: Member $35, Supporting Member $100, Patron $500, Benefactor $1,000, Founder $5,000+.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Hui Ho'olana operates a living sanctuary on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, offering multi-day educational workshops in photography, painting, healing arts (Internal Family Systems), and contemplative/Zen practices. The organization combines on-site immersive workshops with a native Hawaiian dry-land reforestation program that has planted over 25,000 native and endangered plants. It is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that also accepts tax-deductible donations and memberships to fund operations, scholarships, and restoration work.

Product overview

Hui Ho'olana is a non-profit living sanctuary and educational retreat center on Molokai, Hawaii, offering a portfolio of workshop programs centered on creative arts (photography, painting), healing/spiritual practices (IFS therapy, Zen Buddhism, contemplative practices), and community building. The organization operates as a unified platform combining on-site workshops, lodging/facilities, and reforestation/environmental programs. Core offerings include multi-day photography workshops (The Heart of Seeing, Creative Photography for the Soul, A Natural Eye Gathering, Contemplative Photography Retreat), the annual Painting Intensive led by Stewart Cubley, Deep Healing of Exiles retreats based on Internal Family Systems, meditation and Zen path programs, and Great Fullness Work Camps for community service. The sanctuary also maintains a Native Botanical Garden & Reforestation Program as a conservation initiative. Revenue supports facility operations, reforestation, scholarships, and guest teachers. No digital product, API, or SaaS offering exists—this is a physical retreat center experience.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 20,000 native Hawaiian plants restored across 2+ acres
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• IFS InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIFS (Internal Family Systems) Institute partners with Hui Ho'olana to host the Deep Healing of Exiles retreat. Dick Schwartz, the founding developer of the IFS model, leads workshops at the Hui. IFS has gained global recognition over 30 years and is being used in venues beyond psychotherapy.
• Hakomi AustinminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerHakomi Austin organized the Softening Barriers to Love workshop at Hui Ho'olana with Flint Sparks, combining Hakomi Method with Zen Buddhist practice for personal transformation.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• 1440 Multiversity: California-based educational retreat campus hosting multi-day workshops on personal growth, creativity, and well-being with all-inclusive lodging. Closely comparable workshop+lodge+amenity offering and adult-learner target audience.
• Omega Institute for Holistic Studies: Nonprofit educational retreat center in Rhinebeck, NY hosting hundreds of wellness, creative, and personal growth workshops per year on a large campus. Highly comparable mission (education + personal transformation) and membership/donation-driven non-profit structure.
• Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health: Largest yoga and holistic-health retreat center in the US, offering residential workshops in contemplative practice, healing, and the arts. Direct overlap with Hui Ho'olana's healing-arts and spiritual-practice programming on a non-profit retreat campus model.
• Schumacher College (Dartington): UK-based educational retreat college offering short residential programs in ecology, the arts, and transformative learning. Comparable mission of immersive short-course education combined with land-based sustainability ethos.
• Esalen Institute: Long-running residential workshop and retreat center on the California coast offering experiential workshops (photography, healing, somatic practice) in a nature-based setting with shared lodging and educational programming model closely aligned to Hui Ho'olana's intimate workshop-plus-sanctuary format.
• Menla Mountain Retreat Center: Spa-of-peace retreat center in Phoenicia, NY offering residential programs in yoga, meditation, healing arts, and contemplative practice—directly comparable integrative, retreat-based education format with strong healing-arts focus.

Broad incumbents

• Findhorn Foundation: Scotland-based spiritual/eco-village and conference center running residential workshops and retreats with a strong environmental restoration component—an established nonprofit parallel combining education and land stewardship at scale.

Regional players

• Hollyhock: Canadian nonprofit retreat center on Cortes Island, BC offering experiential learning programs in the arts, wellness, and personal growth—a geographically-distant peer with a near-identical non-profit retreat/workshop/sanctuary model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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