LEAP Connect
LEAP Connect aims to bring both needed and inspirational leadership dialogues to the community. Through a series of accessible monthly leadership conversations, trainings, networking opportunities and more, participants will build the tools and resources needed to inspire change within their personal and professional communities.
Upcoming Session
The Quiet Work of Healing: A Grief Recovery Session
Grief doesn’t shout—but it lingers. It shows up in silence, in sleepless nights, in moments no one sees.
This powerful session with Grief Recovery Specialist Rhys Kiaaina creates sacred space to face what’s been buried, name what’s been lost, and gently begin the quiet work of healing. This workshop will guide you through a proven process of grief recovery—offering hope, clarity, and emotional freedom.
Whether your loss is fresh, distant, personal, or unspoken, you don’t have to carry it alone. Healing may be quiet, but it is holy—and it starts here.
LEAP Connect leadership workshops are free, accessible to the public, and are intended to bring a safe space to the community. Participants can walk away from the sessions with the tools and resources necessary to increase their leadership skills and inspire change.
About Rhys Kiaaina
Rhys Kiaaina (Reese Key Ah Eye Na) has been a Christian for 33 years & was converted in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1992. He has been married to Grace Kiaaina for 30 years & have 3 children, Kala’i, Kainani, and Keahikupono. He has served as a Senior Minister for the Hawaii Family of Churches (Oahu, Maui, Hilo, Guam, Saipan, and Myanmar) from 2001-2012. In 2012, he moved to LA & served in the Los Angeles International Church of Christ, Metro Region till 2024. Rhys received his Master of Religious Education in Missional Leadership from Rochester Christian University in 2020. As of February 2025, he currently serves as a Minister / Consultant with the Temecula Valley Church of Christ which has been such a life-giving experience with a group of 50 members.
Since 2019, he also has been involved in the Grief Recovery Method Program, the only evidence-based recovery program in the world that helps educate and empower grievers with tools to take action steps that lead to recovery. As a Grief Recovery Method Specialist trained by the Grief Recovery Institute, he has serviced clients with the Grief Recovery Method throughout the United States and internationally in Canada, Jamaica, London, and Norway. He is passionate about helping those going through devastating loss to recover & rediscover life, laughter, and love again. He believes if “you can feel it, you can heal it.”
2026 Season
Coming soon!
Thank you to our LEAP Connect sponsors
