Jay Kemp

Jay Kemp

Student Program manager at NXTHVN

TEDx Organizer
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About Jay

I am a…

Educator/Teacher, Entrepreneur, Life mentor, Public servant, Writer/Editor

Bio

Leveraging NXTHVN’s studio and curatorial fellows and, through one-on-one mentorship, that prioritizes empowerment, innovation, and technical learning, the apprenticeship program trains the next generation of artists and creative thinkers.

I'm passionate about

Helping humans discover their own power.

An idea worth spreading

Essentially we use our imagination everyday. When you plan your day, you are actually using your imagination, visualizing yourself how you are going to do each task. When you point the way to someone, you see the route in your imagination. When you prepare a meal, you plan it first in your imagination. So imagination is something that we automatically do. But at some point we lose the intentionality behind imaginating. When we are children we are very intentional about imagination. We will imagine what we want to play, what we want to create, how we want to pretend. So when we bring intention to imagination we become the engineers of our vision, destiny. Wether you believe in a "high power" or not we are an essential part of how we show up in life. This is a great power we have. Developing our imagination muscle is a way to be more in control of that power. Using strategies rooted in Self image psychology "Higher Self Imagineering" provides a confidence in ones value, self worth, and they imagination to create the life they want to live.

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