The first message we want to convey to our Keala Kids is the high value of pursuing health through physical activity. We want our students to understand the direct correlation between exercise and the longevity and quality of life, including freedom from sickness and immobility. Our aim is to contrast the direction of mainstream culture that leads to chronic pain and disease by providing education in the fundamentals of strength and conditioning.

Our second initiative is to help students acknowledge and overcome the natural human desires for comfort. This may take the form of unhealthy foods or other lifestyle habits that can lead to obesity, pain and chronic disease. We want to invite Keala Kids into recognizing the influence of community and the service of others that can motivate our own well being so that we can be better contributors to culture.

We want to encourage our Keala Kids to develop a spiritual sense of self and belonging. We believe that physical health is a reflection of a relationship within the heart of an individual and the created environment to which they belong.

We encourage our Keala Kids to examine themselves deeply in the morality of their character - in discipline, honesty and accountability. We teach them how to be self-aware individuals with the capacity to see themselves as they truly are. We want to foster the maturity of our kids to take account and responsibility to do the difficult task of self-examination, in both the good and the bad, and we teach this through physical exercise and the pursuit of healthy habits.

It is important that we teach our Keala Kids about the quality of humility and being able to admit wrongdoing. We endeavor to teach kids that wrong behavior is not about the associated consequence and punishment so much as it is about the misalignment it causes one from his/her true self. The value we aim to teach about this layer of the human journey is the quality of life that comes through communication and the boldness to be transparent.

We want our Keala Kids to be prepared in every sense of the word - to courageously face both challenge and loss. We teach our kids the difference between moral and immoral character qualities and help them gain the necessary resources and capacity to remove harmful traits from their lifestyle. This equally applies to their exercise of fitness in which they learn how they mentally stand in their own way of becoming faster and stronger.

We encourage our kids both to practice and receive forgiveness of wrongs. As we help foster a spiritual sense of the self and in the context of community, we aim to teach Keala Kids that forgiveness stands at the center of grace and humility.

We teach our Keala Kids to be accountable to both themselves and to one another, growing in their own willingness to make corrections of their own lifestyle choices. We teach them to understand that between the space of awareness and action is required a practice in accountability.

Our Keala Kids are taught to be brave in facing the consequence of their own harmful actions. We encourage them to practice the making of amends and to “make right” those things which they have contributed to making wrong. We also teach them to use wisdom and discernment in doing such things so as not to cause greater harm at the sake of disclosure or admittance.

Not only do we teach our Keala Kids to take account of their past, but also of their present life and of the future yet to come by continuing to deal with misgivings and doings as they come. We teach our kids how to continuously grow in their pursuit of better physical, mental and emotional health and to acknowledge that this is an ongoing process. Our kids grow to understand that the goal is not perfection, but daily practice - in fitness and in life. We teach our students that the practice of suppression leads to the burden of shame into the future and to tackle problems in the present in order to stay healthy in all ways.

The resultant outcome of moral accounts of both self and reconciliation to community and others leads our Keala Kids to have a deeper understanding of the nature of their own spirit. In maturing in this way, our kids find purpose in their own life beyond their own Self. We encourage our students to act boldly from this healthy place of a purpose-driven life.

Finally, we celebrate our Keala Kids in the lessons they learn. As they become restored and healed to the true nature of themselves in the context of their family, community and humanity at large, we welcome them to be excited about the journey. We remind them that they have power and resources granted through humility and grace that is as true in body as it is in the intangible qualities of human spirit.