Imagine one person, at the right time saying the right thing to transform your being, Hello Beautiful! One Poem written to garner hope in the lives 26 public schools students is now transforming the world.
Hello BEautiful two words with one mission, to affect change has deepened the educator/student relationship, became a path lit to outline the future, and revitalize/motivate an inner strength. What began in the classroom as Jones solution to counter act negative programming and self sabotaging behavior(s) has become a movement. Hello Beautiful . . . induced self respect, built character, prompted a new expectation in the classroom and began to cultivate a self-love. In a tri-fold scenario the Hello Beautiful Movement challenges educators to set higher expectations for the classroom and refuse negative degrading language in the classroom. Focus on each students strengths and exploit them, while at the same time strengthening each students weaknesses. Another aspect of the Hello Beautiful Movement, extracts the negativity that surrounds youth in disadvantage communities, by using Hello Beautiful to replace misogynistic terms easily accepted and have become norm and/or terms of endearment (Bitch/Whore syndrome). The final aspect of the Hello Beautiful movement equalizes the disparities presented to the general public through media (billboards, magazine, television) imaging, which in turn, leave children feeling inadequate and/or abnormal, so we use Hello Beautiful to amplify the beauty in diversity. Ultimately, I am asking persons to try Hello Beautiful for 21days. Start by halting all negative words coming into your personal space or coming out of your mouth and/or out of your personal space and replacing any and all things negative with POSITIVE words/energy going in and ultimately coming out. This includes all negative people who are harming you and your space. Join the movement, Surround yourself with words of destiny like Hello Beautiful, and document the outcome, journal your results and tell me about it. Then go beyond the 21 days and use Hello Beautiful for LIFE!
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+ Indianapolis Woman Magazine - April 2010 Issue
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