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?
“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.
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.
