About Yejin Lee
Yejin Lee (she/they) is a queer, genderfluid, neurodivergent and Corean facilitator, coach and consultant who supports individuals in taking ownership of and responsibility for the shape of their transformational influence within their organizations towards efficient, effective, and ethical organizational operations and reflective, resilient, and recuperative people culture.
Yejin draws from her twelve years of professional experiences in nonprofit community organizing, fundraising, governance, strategy, and operations, and also from her six years of organizational consulting and coaching for companies interested in bridging the gap between their espoused values and their everyday operations. They are especially gifted at identifying, naming, and creating responsive strategies to address operational and relational (re: human) roots of organizational ineffiency, inequity, and instability, and in facilitating processes that surface tailored approaches to organizational change work that suit the people and institution. She is also passionate about integrating care, wholeness, and directness into all spaces, and invites softeness, lightness, and play when needed and appropriate!
Why Jeong?
Yejin strongly believes that grounding ourselves in our subjectivtiies and personal, cultural histories can be a tremendous source of strength for change work. They have found foundational roots in the Korean word, practice, and philosophy of Jeong (정).
This is how Jeong Coaching & Consulting LLC was born.
In 2020, Yejin came across a remarkable Instagram account called han_soom that shared a beautiful post about the following Korean concepts (quoted below):
Han: “…is that indescribable combination of pain, grief, rage, anxiety, and fear that all Korean people feel. It is born out of centuries of invasion, colonialism, occupation, and war on the peninsula, passed down through our parents, living in our Korean blood as we inhabit all corners of the diaspora today.”
Jeong: “Han’s complementary emotion -- a deep care and responsibility for one another that we are born with.”
“Jeong & han constitutes the Korean will to live.
To ground ourselves in jeong/han is to understand our struggle as Korean people as not unique or extraordinary, but rather as one with the struggle of all colonized people across the globe.”
Jeong reminds Yejin that equity & justice work is always rooted in community.
Yejin’s Philosophy & Principles
A Philosophy: a system of ideas and an overarching framework of beliefs, values, and the "why" behind a person or organization's perspective
Yejin believes that there is an abundance of rich data swirling around within and outside of each of us, and that the more we can surface that information, the more we can access greater agency and autonomy over our choices so we can move in alignment with our principles.
Yejin believes that increased knowledge, awareness and attunement must be translated into tangible shifts and changes in everyday behaviors and actions, otherwise the gathering of information is an act of indulgence rather than something transformative.
Yejin believes that change work is inherently relational, and must be rooted in meaningful and material acts of building trust, build, and care in order for it to result in positive transformation. Transactionality, even in workplaces, will severely limit the possibilities of change.
Yejin believes that curiosity, care and compassion are practices that create natural openings for reflection, growth, and change.
Yejin believes there can be no growth or change without conflict or confrontation. While curiosity, care and compassion are foundational to their philosophy, they also know that increasing people's capacity to be challenged is an important part of the work.
Yejin believes that the intentional and accidental exclusion of disabled and neurodivergent people from decision-making and organizational culture formation is a great loss to organizations who will never be able to access the entirety of their wisdoms, expertise, and contributions.
Principles: Actionable & living truths or propositions that are used to guide choices and behaviors as we move through the world
Protection of Individual Agency & Autonomy
Fortification of the Collective
Accountability as a Relational & Community Process
Care Requires Responsivity
Practice and Struggle as a Vehicles for Growth
A portion of Yejin's wholeness is their openness to name how their commitment to liberation shows up in their body. They bring these learnings back with softness, honesty, uncertainty, and value based practice. They allow this to shift their boundaries, name their limits, and share the external and internal challenges that this brings forth. As a disabled and chronically ill person, I am constantly relearning and renegotiating my capacity, and being able to witnessing Yejin's practice of this feels like a comforting embrace to know I'm not alone.
Hadiel
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Yejin's approach to resource mobilization and wealth redistribution, especially the ways that they practice compassionate boundary-setting and transparency, has helped me explore how I can regularly participate in these practices, even as a less resourced person. I deeply appreciate the way that she bring her wholeness to her work and invites others to do the same. I am learning how to put my values into practice every day, while not extracting from my own disabled/chronically ill bodymind because of Yejin's work.
Reed
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I have learned so much from witnessing Yejin hold their multitude of emotions / feelings with so much tenderness and truthfulness. I continue to learn so much from the ways that Yejin engages in their practice of honoring their sensitivity and the needs of their body-mind, in ways that have helped me to be gentler and kinder to my own sensitive parts / body-mind. Yejin reminds me that courage, rage, anger, silliness, playfulness, truthfulness, and humor can exist at once (and often do!) and that all are necessary as we engage in this journey towards collective liberation. Yejin’s embodied practices (their dancing / water color art / cooking) have filled me with so much hope and joy and have inspired me to move through this world in more embodied ways. I am so grateful for Yejin!
SM
Overview of Services
Organizational Consulting, Capacity-Building, Facilitation & Speaking Engagements
Effeciency, Efficacy & Equity Audit
Includes in-depth observation, comprehensive auditing process, recommendations report, and option for capacity-building workshopsTailored Capacity-Building Workshops
Facilitated Challenging (but Necessary!) Conversations
Organizational Conflict & Repair Process Facilitation
Integration of Care, Wholeness, Lightness & Play into "The Work"TM
Speaking Engagement Types: Keynote Address, Panel Discussion, Podcast Interview, Fireside Chat, Class Instruction (Guest Speaker)
Leadership Coaching
Management Coaching
Frontline Staff Coaching
Liberatory Coaching
Liberatory Project, Process & Program Improvement
Support for Fledgling Idea
Review and Evaluation of Current Project/Process/Program + Recommendations for Operational Shifts