The Simplest Peacemaking Tool To De-escalate Any Situation

For today’s Talk Less, Listen More Thursday Tip of the Day, I attest that this works. As a conflict mediator, this is a foundational tool I inform all parties involved before the mediation. It sets an important tone and is a critical a ground rule to achieving an effective mediation session.

Below are additional Talk Less, Listen More Thursday video tips to help us all cultivate compassion and empathy. It is through good communication skills that we—as a society—can get closer to peace and love. I truly believe there is nothing good communication can’t solve.

What are other tips and strategies to help us move closer to peace and love?

In community,

Jenny


Hello Community!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your heartfelt love and support of my passion to boldly create positive change, especially through my baby, my artistic activism, Retrofit Republic. When I founded Retrofit Republic at 25 years old, I had no idea it would become the innovative social enterprise that so many of you championed. Thank you for believing in the good work that we were doing.

Going back down memory lane.

Award-winning singer, rapper, songwriter, musician, producer Anderson .Paak and rapper Dumbfoundead. Creative vision and wardrobe styling by yours truly.

I knew we were on to something unique. But the continual out-pour of our positive affect on you and so many illustrated that it was changing society to be better, to be more diverse, more inclusive, more equitable, to herald the beautiful diversity of individuals, races, cultures, backgrounds, gender presentations, body types, abilities and disabilities; and while changing culture to be more conscious of consumerism and its global ramifications such as the human and environmental costs of products and business practices.

Additionally, many studies have shown the greater benefits of diversity in the workforce such as increased revenue and fundraising, better and comprehensive ideas, improved efficiencies and productivity, significantly higher retention, and overall happier employees. So why not put concerted effort to institutionalize diversity, equity, and inclusion practices and policies in your company? It’s a no-brainer really.

These values continue to inform me in my continual nonprofit, social impact, and consulting work. As well as in the past four years, with the students I have been so fortunate to work with. With anything that I am passionate about, it becomes my life. I give it my all. Just like at Retrofit Republic, I gave my all to my students and families. I learned a ton. I am forever grateful for the transformations and relationships fostered. But I deeply miss the magical creative flow that I had running Retrofit Republic, where I had full creative license to collaborate and run my own vehicle of change.

Thus, here I am starting my next creative vision and consulting services site. Whatever your needs are such as how to:

_Start a nonprofit, social enterprise or business.
_Lead a mission driven personal and career path.
_Ensure your company and practices are rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
_Hire and train diverse talent.
_Coach and develop your team.
_Mediate conflict resolutions between your team members.
_Execute an effective and productive staff retreat.
_Market, communicate, and increase your reach.
_Envision and execute an unforgettable marketing campaign from A-Z.
_Create a unique brand and identity.
_Market research to understand what competitive advantage you and your company has.
_Develop a memorable tagline and elevator pitch.
_Set-up photo and video shoots.
_Style it all.
_Dress and present yourself as the boss that you are or strive to be.
_Lead and inspire a team.
_Plan and execute your organization’s anniversary event.

I got you! Or you simply want to share what creative endeavors you’re working on or content that inspires you.

Keep doing you and believe in yourself. If you don’t, then why should anyone else? Trust that your firm belief will manifest.

“Your journey has molded you for the greater good. It was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think you’ve lost time. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.” -Asha Tyson.

Let’s create your best self and live y/our dreams together.

In solidarity,

Jenny


Art Challenges Passive Culture

“Art challenges passive culture” is a quote by renowned artist Nicolas Bourriaud. It is a quote that struck me many years ago and affirmed my love and study of the arts. It truly embodies an arts nonprofit dear to my heart, Kearny Street Workshop.

Kearny Street Workshop is the oldest multidisciplinary Asian Pacific American arts organization in the United States. KSW was founded on racial, social, and economic injustices dealt by the Asian Pacific American community in the 1970s. This monumental historical precedence carries through in our values for equity, representation, and visibility through the arts today.

Join us tonight at 7 p.m. for our annual end-of-the-year virtual celebration honoring our community artists, allies, and greater community. We honor you. We thank you.

And through our silent auction, bid on your own commissioned portraits like the ones below by gifted artist Nina Asay or the Diving Coloring Book by brilliant design artist Christine Joy Ferrer. The unique art and gifts for yourself or that special someone is plentiful.

It’s a win, win! Attain a masterpiece for your home that I guarantee your guests will gush over. Then subsequently share how you won it at a silent auction fundraiser, which helps to sustain an incomparable arts nonprofit.


Thanks to you, we did it!

Community, thank you for coming through! It is because of you we surpassed our fundraising goal for five deserving women warriors!

Your donations are in the works. We are assembling each women warrior’s care packages, and they will be delivered to them by no later than early January 2021. These care packages will contain monetary gift cards to help with essential needs and individualized items for their well-being and the well-being of their families. Additionally, your gift for your donation is also in the works and should arrive by early January 2021 too.

We are only as strong as our community and this campaign couldn’t be more indicative. Your encouraging words pierce deeply, especially in 2020.

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“You each are so deserving of this and so much more.” -Diana

“Thank you for sharing your stories and allowing us to give back a little. May our Lord watch over your families with love and protection!” -Jennie

“Sending love and blessings to all of you.” – Chayla

“Thank you for all that you do to make the world a kinder place.” -Laurie

“I love the work you are doing, keep shining.” -Erica

“Wonderful way to honor women!” -Anonymous

“By Queens, For Queens! Love what you’re continuing to do to uplift and inspire womxn.” -Stephanie

“Supporting our most inspiring, fearless, brilliant, and beautiful Queens! -Allyson

“Who run the world?!” – Abigail

“Women of the Resistance” mural by Lucia Gonzalez Ippolito at Balmy Alley in the Mission district of San Francisco. Photo by me.

#UpliftingWomenWarriors