For Healani Klein, the pre-Valentine’s Day flower arranging event at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Campus Center was a morning of magic and aloha.

“It’s full of beautiful energy, lovely people,” she said while using the Japanese style of ikebana to create two bouquets—one for her and another that was donated to Mental Health Kōkua, a nonprofit that shared her arrangement with a family that is struggling.