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Mark Patterson: The Criminal Justice System: A Place Of Healing at TEDxHonolulu 2012

Mark Patterson, Warden, Women’s Community Correctional Center: Mark Patterson’s vision for the Women’s Community Correctional Center is to create a Puuhonua — a sanctuary, a place of healing and transformation. His strategy includes taking a community-building approach through partnership formation that will have a transforming systemic effect on the Criminal Justice System, utilizing mind, body, spirit and place-perspective, and incorporating a trauma informed system of care framework. With over 25 years of public safety experience in both Hawaii and Nevada, his career began as an adult corrections officer, now a Warden for the past five years. Mark was raised on the island of Oahu in Waianae, he is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools, attended New Mexico Military Institute, and holds a degree in criminology from Florida State University.

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The Inner Airport

I made my way to the airport days, minutes and millennia ago to meet with two dear friends.They had no phone and we had not prearranged a meeting point or time within certain dimensions. In the Ultimate Reality of multidimensions that exist as ONE experience of the Universe, we certainly had made clear plans to meet. So with total trust in my intuition, and theirs, I got into the taxi and went to the airport knowing that as long as the intention to see them existed in a pure, loving and non-expectant space, my messages would be received. For there is no distance between hearts. An hour after being assisted by the wonderfully friendly staff at Ninoy Aquino, I was told that there a restaurant outside terminal one. I had never seen it before and instantly knew that they would be there. Petronila was not surprised to see me at all. She knew, as I knew, as Teresita knew that we would see each other. It was perfect. So we sat within the bustle of the passengers, the luggage, the boarding passes and the families saying goodbye simply being unaffected by outer conditions. For in truth, everything we hear is a message, even the noise of the cash register, the ringing mobiles the multitude of conversations. We sat reflecting on their time spent at Maia Earth Village, Palawan and their intentions for their return to their homes in Hawaii and California. We simply spoke a language of Seven Colours. The colours of Maian Consciousness, an essence that is being earthed in every one of …