Mentoring is Hip Hop

Hey everybody. I copied this post from the Wetpaint wiki. To keep things simple, I thought I'd consolidate everything from that site to this one. Peace.


first of all i'd like to congratulate all of us on our first day- mentoring- is a very personal thing. i ask you stop reflect on it in your journals. did you feel like your presence made an impact? how were you affected by the eosa community?
I beg to take this moment and speak to the deed of mentorship. to be a mentor is to know one's own caliber, to be blindado- bullet proof, to know the history of one's own experience- life - the mastery you have on anything...art making, building things, capturing image, writing up songs, poems, enchantments, the pursuit of things, loving, dancing, laughing, energy, organizing, breathing, cooking, practicing, teaching, sculpting... Is there discipline? passion? does that, which you are in the pursuit of meet the/ your challenge? does it hit the spot? mentorship has always confronted me with these questions; it's made me confront how real I my? how much do I walk my talk? from theater, acting, yoga, modeling, writing, teaching... teaching does it to you- i'd say. just plain living? when you are cognizant of your power, you almost instantaneously choose to be a mentor. because you become a model, you become inspiration, a way, and a catalyst. my performance/ director friend Rhodessa Jones comes to mind when I think of keeping it real. do we? always? keep it real? In my opinion, this is the main barometer for your process of mentoring; it will also endow you with choosing good mentors. we are all teachers. how can we inspire through doing (our projects are key). reflect on mentorship (journals will share) finish your business so that we can have you fully committed to the journey. in the words of our adopted quote: We (are) Hip-Hop. Me, you, everybody. We are Hip-Hop
Be blessed, Purnima