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Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀 Whether you're donning green, enjoying Irish music, or sharing a meal with loved ones, may the luck of the Irish be with you today and always. Sláinte to health, happiness, and a day filled with joyful moments! 🌈🍻 #StPatricksDay #LuckOfTheIrish #CelebrateTogether #SenerchiaAndSenerchia #kidsprotectionplanning #kidsprotectionplan #LegalExperts #FamilyLawFirm #EstatePlanning #RealEstateLaw #BusinessLaw #LegalServices #TrustAndWills #SmallBusinessSupport #LegalLegacy #ClientFocused #EmpatheticLawyers #RhodeIslandLawyers #LegalAdvice #LawFirmExcellence #PersonalizedService #LegacyProtection

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀 Whether you're donning green, enjoying Irish music, or sharing a meal with loved ones, may the luck of the Irish be with you today and always. Sláinte to health, happiness, and a day filled with joyful moments! 🌈🍻 #StPatricksDay #LuckOfTheIrish #CelebrateTogether #SenerchiaAndSenerchia #kidsprotectionplanning #kidsprotectionplan #LegalExperts #FamilyLawFirm #EstatePlanning #RealEstateLaw #BusinessLaw #LegalServices #TrustAndWills #SmallBusinessSupport #LegalLegacy #ClientFocused #EmpatheticLawyers #RhodeIslandLawyers #LegalAdvice #LawFirmExcellence #PersonalizedService #LegacyProtection

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀 Whether you're donning green, enjoying Irish music, or sharing a meal with loved ones, may the luck of the Irish be with you today and always. Sláinte to health, happiness, and a day filled with joyful moments! 🌈🍻 #StPatricksDay #LuckOfTheIrish #CelebrateTogether #SenerchiaAndSenerchia #kidsprotectionplanning #kidsprotectionplan #LegalExperts #FamilyLawFirm #EstatePlanning #RealEstateLaw #BusinessLaw #LegalServices #TrustAndWills #SmallBusinessSupport #LegalLegacy #ClientFocused #EmpatheticLawyers #RhodeIslandLawyers #LegalAdvice #LawFirmExcellence #PersonalizedService #LegacyProtection

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀 Whether you're donning green, enjoying Irish music, or sharing a meal with loved ones, may the luck of the Irish be with you today and always. Sláinte to health, happiness, and a day filled with joyful moments! 🌈🍻 #StPatricksDay #LuckOfTheIrish #CelebrateTogether #SenerchiaAndSenerchia #kidsprotectionplanning #kidsprotectionplan #LegalExperts #FamilyLawFirm #EstatePlanning #RealEstateLaw #BusinessLaw #LegalServices #TrustAndWills #SmallBusinessSupport #LegalLegacy #ClientFocused #EmpatheticLawyers #RhodeIslandLawyers #LegalAdvice #LawFirmExcellence #PersonalizedService #LegacyProtection

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 🍀 Whether you're donning green, enjoying Irish music, or sharing a meal with loved ones, may the luck of the Irish be with you today and always. Sláinte to health, happiness, and a day filled with joyful moments! 🌈🍻 #StPatricksDay #LuckOfTheIrish #CelebrateTogether #SenerchiaAndSenerchia #kidsprotectionplanning #kidsprotectionplan #LegalExperts #FamilyLawFirm #EstatePlanning #RealEstateLaw #BusinessLaw #LegalServices #TrustAndWills #SmallBusinessSupport #LegalLegacy #ClientFocused #EmpatheticLawyers #RhodeIslandLawyers #LegalAdvice #LawFirmExcellence #PersonalizedService #LegacyProtection

Are your people connected by a common goal? 40 years ago in the winter of 1984 Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, were watching a crisis unfold in Ethiopia, and they decided to act. They didn’t just want to raise money; they wanted to rally the world. They created Band Aid. In just 6 weeks, they brought together some of the biggest names in music, Sting, Bono, George Michael, Phil Collins, and more, to write, record, and release "Do They Know It's Christmas?" The song became the UK's fastest-selling single, raising £8 million for famine relief, far surpassing the initial goal of £70,000. How did they do it? A common goal. Geldof and Ure bypassed the bureaucracy, no managers, no record labels. They called the artists directly and communicated a powerful purpose: to help those in desperate need. The artists put aside egos and differences because they were united by the cause. It wasn’t just the artists who connected. That Christmas, millions of people came together, united by a shared purpose. The record inspired movements across the globe, from Live Aid to We Are the World, creating a ripple effect that still inspires us today. 5 Things We Can Learn from Band-Aid 👇 🎯 Pick a Common Goal: ⤷ Align it with what you do e.g., Drive the most sales in Q1. ⏱ Set a Deadline: ⤷ Give urgency to action. Set a clear deadline like Band-Aid’s 6-week target. 📢 Communicate With Passion: ⤷ Speak with passion and purpose. Geldof called artists directly and inspired them to drop everything and act. 🤝 Foster Connection: ⤷ Drop the egos, yours too. Emphasize teamwork over individual glory. It’s about the bigger picture. 🚀 Make It Easy to Contribute: ⤷ Remove barriers. Just like Band Aid artists needed only to show up and sing, make contributing simple for your people. When we connect people to a purpose, we do more than just get work done, we create moments that resonate, moments people remember and moments that go down in history. Use this Christmas to connect your people, use 2025 to change the World. Please like, share, comment, and all of that good stuff! 🤗 P.S. Imagine what your team could achieve if everyone was connected to one shared, meaningful goal. What would that be? Let me know below 👇

Annual £1bn Cultural Challenge Update. Last year I reached to King Charles III and asked for his support to raise £1bn using culture as a vehicle. The idea being to create a shared platform with which to promote personal and community relations through joy. The money raised to provide the young people with the life skills necessary to facilitate personal and community resilience. The events of recent weeks, demonstrate the vital importance of this project. If the new Government, genuinely wants to heal the whole of the country, then initiatives like this are going to be essential. The hard truth is, there is no money. There has been a breakdown in law and order. They can’t help us, so it’s on us to step up, and lead. The question we all must ask ourselves is this! Are we going to pick up bricks to throw at each other, or are we going to pick up them up to build bridges? Please repost this and let King Charles 111 know, that now is his time. Now more than ever. we need our monarch to lead us in a way no politician can. Night Time Industries Association United Kingdom Crowd Management Association British Security Industry Association (BSIA) British Army Royal Air Force (RAF) Royal Navy Imperial College London Figen Murray OBE Dr Lynne Baird MBE Satia Rai F.ISRM DIR.IPSA Dawn Dines Lisa Baskott Anne Marie Chebib BA (Hons), PGDip Ann-Marie McLeavy (Martin) Michael Kill Mike Reddington Ian Stokes Jake Deadman Paul Evans Paul Eeles, CBII, Chartered FCIPD, Paul Bessant Adam Liardet Rollo Davies. Gary Twining-Wright Dr David Rubens Roberto Manunta BSc MSc F.ISRM Andrew Blades FRSA GAICD Washington Yotto Ochieng, CBE, EBS, FREng

There are 3 groups of people I will champion until the day I die: 1️⃣ senior citizens, 2️⃣ young people, and 3️⃣ anyone who could be a Special Olympian. On May 30, I will be donating my time to speak at Big Hearts for Seniors, a wonderful event that raises much-needed funds for senior citizens, and I could not be more excited! The theme of the event is LOVE STORIES and let me tell you, it will be a miracle if I make it to the end of my story without love running down my cheeks and puddling on stage. This is a big event with 7 people sharing from the depths of their hearts, so think of it as a night of live storytelling, connection, and entertainment with a very important purpose. The only way we are going to help seniors is to: ❤️ fill the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater/Michigan League in Ann Arbor with big-hearted people like YOU, (tickets are on sale NOW, it's on May 30 at 7:00pm) 💜 bid on the silent auction items between May 23-30 (just NOT the stuff I'm bidding on!😉) 💙 and find individuals & businesses to sponsor the event (sponsors receive a host of benefits including 2 tickets, and if you sponsor before April 26, your info will be in event emails). Information about all of the above is on the website below. (I didn't add the site to this narrative, in hopes that LinkedIn will push this out to more people). You can also help by sharing this entire post, inviting people from groups or churches you belong to, and reaching out to me or the event hosts for more info. Let's do this! ❤️❤️❤️ #seniorcare #storytelling #professionalspeaker

When it comes to community engagement, good arts organisations punch way above their weight. I mean the type of engagement services would kill for. Here are some generalisations made from my lived experience of being involved in the community arts sector for many years… 👉Artists are usually really invested in their practice – whether they get paid for it or not, and if part of that practice involves genuine engagement then they are equally invested in that outcome. 👉They work bloody hard – often in cycles which people don’t always see. 👉They are also often interested in the deeper things that matter to us as humans – the ‘soul’ and despite what some funding bodies might think, I know from my years at Milk Crate Theatre that ‘soul’ piece was very, very important to those who were struggling. It’s often overlooked. 👉In complex times, art will ask the hard questions of us, and bring us together to feel our collective spirit. As noted in Jade Lillie and collaborators gloriously titled book "The relationship is the project" - “Community-engaged practice is not an art form. It’s not an add-on. It’s a way of working; a deep collaboration” And yet the funding for it in Australia is staggeringly low. As the recent "Artists as Workers: An economic study of professional artists in Australia" report demonstrated, many artists make their work and live below the poverty line to do so. After being affiliated for a few years, I recently joined the volunteer Executive Committee for Whale Chorus, a local Newcastle-based theatre company. I believe in this company and its vision. Like most arts organisations, it is run on the smell of an oily rag, combined with exceptional skill, passion and commitment. If you want to see what outcomes look like from a tiny, but committed local arts organisation - its role in the local community ecosystem – check out Whale Chorus’ Annual Report. The ratio of size to impact is pretty staggering. If it works for you, please support this important work to continue by going to the website https://whalechorus.com/ and making a tax-deductible donation. Janie Gibson Katerina Skoumbas #localart #placebasedarts #whalechorus

🌟 From a Dream to a Movement: The Evolution of Heart Place Hospital 🌟 Heart Place Hospital started in the simplest of places—our lounge. For a time, it even operated from the caravan parked on our driveway. From those humble beginnings, it has grown into a sanctuary on our 4-acre property, which is not just the heart of our work but also our home. ❣️Heart Place Hospital is more than a charity; it’s a movement—a movement created so that our daughters, raised through every stage of its evolution, will never grow up believing the saying: “We like a woman when she has a dream, but not when she makes it come true.” 💚🏥At its core, Heart Place Hospital is inspired by the true meaning of the word “hospital”—a place to welcome strangers. But we’ve gone further. We’ve created a place of solace, healing, and community, not only for visitors but for our family and their people. All great movements start somewhere. Ours began in a lounge and a driveway caravan, and now, we have built a thriving sanctuary that has touched countless lives. And this is just the beginning—requests are pouring in to replicate Heart Place Hospital in Canterbury, Hawke’s Bay, the Bay of Plenty, Milford Sound, Australia, and beyond🌎 This movement is a legacy—for our daughters, for future generations, and for every person who dares to dream and sees it through. Because when dreams come true, they change the world. 💛 📸 top photo Dec 2022, bottom Dec 2024