How our groups are built
Lokahi: looking beyond the substance.
Unity. Balance. Healing. Together as One.
Mana’s own culturally rooted approach to recovery, woven through group therapy and the Intensive Outpatient Program. It is not a separate program you enroll in — it is how the groups here are structured, it revolves around a 90-day curriculum, and everyone in IOP takes part.
What Lokahi is.
Lokahi means unity, harmony and agreement. In the family’s own words it is “more than just being in agreement — it represents peace, collective well-being, and the interconnectedness between people, nature and the spiritual realm.” Mana is a Native Hawaiian family business, and the name was chosen deliberately.
As a curriculum, Lokahi is a defined 90-day body of material delivered through group therapy. It asks a different first question from most substance-use programs. Instead of starting with the substance and working outward, it starts with the person and works toward it: what was happening, what it was doing for you, and what is still there when it stops.
That question matters because stopping is often not the hard part. People get sober, find work, rebuild a routine — and the thing that drove it in the first place is untouched. Lokahi exists because our own family watched exactly that happen.
Grounded in unity and balance
The values behind the name are not decoration. A group works when the people in it are genuinely for each other, and the curriculum is built to produce that rather than assume it. Unity here is practical: it means the room holds together well enough for people to say difficult things in it.
What the curriculum works on
- The experiences underneath substance use, not only its consequences
- Mental-health concerns that run alongside it
- Patterns that repeat across relationships and work
- What connection and purpose actually look like day to day
What Lokahi is not
It is not a separate licensed level of care, not a replacement for the Intensive Outpatient Program, and not something offered to people outside it — you take part by being in IOP. It is not a religious program either: Mana works with people of any belief and of none, and does not preach.
Why we wrote our own.
In May 2022 we lost Jonny, a member of our family, at twenty-six. He had done the things people are told to do: he had found sobriety, he was working, he had people around him. What he never reached were the reasons underneath — he declined the therapy that might have taken him there, and the programs available to him were not built to insist.
Lokahi is our attempt to build the thing that was missing. It is not a claim to have solved anything. It is a curriculum written by people who know precisely what it costs when the underlying question goes unasked.
Read the family story →“Imagine a circle, the individual needing care standing inside of the circle, and people completely surrounding this person, locked hand in hand. This is us, our guiding principles, and the basis for our success.”
Mana Health and Wellness
Where it sits
How Lokahi fits with the rest of your care.
The foundation
IOP, individual therapy and medication management are Mana’s clinical care. Lokahi does not replace any of them.
The 90-day curriculum
Lokahi revolves around a 90-day curriculum delivered in group sessions. It is woven through group therapy and IOP rather than sold as a separate level of care.
Practical support
Case management, peer support, employment help and transport keep treatment possible while the work happens.
There is nothing separate to sign up for
Lokahi has no enrollment of its own. Everyone in the Intensive Outpatient Program experiences it, because it is how the groups are run — and it is not offered to people who are not in IOP.
Part of the approach
The 12 steps, and what we mean by a higher power.
Twelve-step progression sessions are part of the week here, and taking part in them is not required. We would rather say that plainly than let anyone find out after they have started.
The steps involve the idea of a higher power. At Mana, what that means is whatever you decide it means — for some people it is a faith they already hold, for others it is the group itself, the people who love them, the ocean, or simply something larger than the version of themselves that was using. We do not define it for you and we do not preach. People of every faith and of none do this work here.
What we do encourage, case by case, is that you stay engaged in your own recovery outside of the clinic — in whatever way actually works for you. For some people that is a twelve-step group. For others it is something else entirely, and that is a good answer too.
“At Mana Health and Wellness, we believe in the power of healing, spirituality, and community. Together, we create a path to lasting recovery and a life filled with purpose.”
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No. There is no separate enrollment. Lokahi is woven through group therapy and the Intensive Outpatient Program — it is how those groups are structured — and it is not offered to people who are not in IOP.
Everyone in the Intensive Outpatient Program experiences Lokahi, because it is how the groups are run rather than an extra to opt into.
No. Mana works with people of any belief and of none. The values behind the name are about unity and balance between people, not doctrine.
It revolves around a 90-day curriculum, delivered in the groups that run inside the class day, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM.
No. It is delivered alongside clinical care, not instead of it.
Talk to us
Ask about joining a Lokahi group.
You do not need a diagnosis or a referral to ask. Call and we will explain how the groups run and whether the timing works for you.
Mon–Fri 8:00 AM–4:00 PM. In a crisis, call 911 or call or text 988.