Kaetrena
@kaetrena.bsky.social
Researcher | Leader | Consultant | Coach
I help people recognize, reconcile, and recover from low-morale experiences.
https://renewalslis.com
I help people recognize, reconcile, and recover from low-morale experiences.
https://renewalslis.com
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If you're navigating an active low-morale experience, which of these worries resonate for you?
November 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
If you're navigating an active low-morale experience, which of these worries resonate for you?
Colleagues, if you've taught or facilitated about Assertive Communication in libraries, I'd love to chat with you (or, if you know of someone who has done this work, please send recommendations) - thank you!
November 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Colleagues, if you've taught or facilitated about Assertive Communication in libraries, I'd love to chat with you (or, if you know of someone who has done this work, please send recommendations) - thank you!
Toxic co-workers/organizations won't onboard you when you arrive at the job - and will plan/throw you a party when they've forced you to leave it.
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Toxic co-workers/organizations won't onboard you when you arrive at the job - and will plan/throw you a party when they've forced you to leave it.
Toxic bosses/organizations won't reward you when you stay late often - and will punish you if you arrive late once.
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Toxic bosses/organizations won't reward you when you stay late often - and will punish you if you arrive late once.
I'm excited to share that in January, I'm slated to teach my special topics course, "Critical Hope and Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship" at Dominican University's School of Information Studies! Learn more at tinyurl.com/mrxbchz
November 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I'm excited to share that in January, I'm slated to teach my special topics course, "Critical Hope and Self-Preservation in Contemporary Librarianship" at Dominican University's School of Information Studies! Learn more at tinyurl.com/mrxbchz
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Here are a few mindsets that haunt #LowMorale workplaces. These entrenched mindsets are even scarier since we see may not immediately see damaging results - only to one day find ourselves among buried plans and goals and petrified and paralyzed employees. Which ones haunt your workplace?
October 31, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Here are a few mindsets that haunt #LowMorale workplaces. These entrenched mindsets are even scarier since we see may not immediately see damaging results - only to one day find ourselves among buried plans and goals and petrified and paralyzed employees. Which ones haunt your workplace?
This Tuesday afternoon I'll be presenting at the South Carolina Library Association conference, so don't forget to add my session if you're attending. See you there!
October 26, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This Tuesday afternoon I'll be presenting at the South Carolina Library Association conference, so don't forget to add my session if you're attending. See you there!
I'm brimming with joy to share that I'll be facilitating the 2026 Virginia Library Leadership Academy (my second cohort)! If you're a Virginia library employee interested in cultivating humane leadership and library workplaces, applications are now open! Learn more: tinyurl.com/3w62629x
October 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
I'm brimming with joy to share that I'll be facilitating the 2026 Virginia Library Leadership Academy (my second cohort)! If you're a Virginia library employee interested in cultivating humane leadership and library workplaces, applications are now open! Learn more: tinyurl.com/3w62629x
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Renewers, if you're attending the Library Marketing & Communications Conference this year, I'm looking forward to seeing you! Learn more: tinyurl.com/9t8zvxkt
October 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Renewers, if you're attending the Library Marketing & Communications Conference this year, I'm looking forward to seeing you! Learn more: tinyurl.com/9t8zvxkt
This Wednesday, I'll be in community and connection with colleagues coming to The Renewals Workshop, hosted by OhioNet! It will be an intentional day of reflection, clarification, exploration, and practice. See you there! tinyurl.com/443yd4wx
The Renewals Workshop - Event - OhioNet
Please join our award-winning facilitator, Kaetrena Davis Kendrick, MSLS, as she leads a 6-hour workshop designed to help people and groups recognize, reconcile, and recover from dysfunctional organiz...
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October 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
This Wednesday, I'll be in community and connection with colleagues coming to The Renewals Workshop, hosted by OhioNet! It will be an intentional day of reflection, clarification, exploration, and practice. See you there! tinyurl.com/443yd4wx
Stop thinking in binary when it comes to your response(s) to early signals of workplace harm. You can give the offender grace AND document their behavior. The grace may leave -- and your record will remain.
October 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Stop thinking in binary when it comes to your response(s) to early signals of workplace harm. You can give the offender grace AND document their behavior. The grace may leave -- and your record will remain.
Please read this chapter to see applied practices of slow librarianship (H/T: @librarianmer.bsky.social), & to see real responses when resilience narratives are presented to library employees. Reveal the gaps & show the impacts for more humane results! Thank you @amandaelaan.bsky.social
My book chapter, Don't Do More With Less: Sustainable Work as a Management Value, has arrived! This chapter explores my first years as a manager and how I did my best to embrace slow librarianship, push back on overcommitment and vocational awe, and make my department and its work sustainable. 📚📜
Don’t Do More With Less: Sustainable Work as a Management Value
Discusses a series of decisions a middle manager made to keep the work of her department sustainable and how she incorporated her values into her process.
oasis.library.unlv.edu
October 1, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Please read this chapter to see applied practices of slow librarianship (H/T: @librarianmer.bsky.social), & to see real responses when resilience narratives are presented to library employees. Reveal the gaps & show the impacts for more humane results! Thank you @amandaelaan.bsky.social
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Hi CDC and friends,
CDC current and former staff have created a mutual aid network called CDC mutual aid 💚
If you are looking for resources or want to help support cdc workers check out this website: www.cdcresourceportal.org
@cdcmutualaid.bsky.social
CDC current and former staff have created a mutual aid network called CDC mutual aid 💚
If you are looking for resources or want to help support cdc workers check out this website: www.cdcresourceportal.org
@cdcmutualaid.bsky.social
Mutual Aid Network Portal
Our online Store is Now Open!
www.cdcresourceportal.org
September 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Hi CDC and friends,
CDC current and former staff have created a mutual aid network called CDC mutual aid 💚
If you are looking for resources or want to help support cdc workers check out this website: www.cdcresourceportal.org
@cdcmutualaid.bsky.social
CDC current and former staff have created a mutual aid network called CDC mutual aid 💚
If you are looking for resources or want to help support cdc workers check out this website: www.cdcresourceportal.org
@cdcmutualaid.bsky.social
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Get a jump on spooky season & learn how #LowMorale Experiences are deepened by what I call GOTCHA Culture. I've identified six behavioral & cultural signals that interrupt employee success. In Part 1, let's look at:
#Gatekeeping
#Overwork
#Triangulation
Peek in to these BOOs: tinyurl.com/y4ny4d8a
#Gatekeeping
#Overwork
#Triangulation
Peek in to these BOOs: tinyurl.com/y4ny4d8a
September 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
September 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them. -
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
Assata Shakur
Pic of the day
#photography
A quick reminder that mean people do can do nice things. In fact, they'll remind you of The Nice Thing They Did while they are planning or perpetuating harm - and when they're trying to distract you from it.
September 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
A quick reminder that mean people do can do nice things. In fact, they'll remind you of The Nice Thing They Did while they are planning or perpetuating harm - and when they're trying to distract you from it.
Does your organization have a GOTCHA Culture?
Renewers, have you experienced any of these lose-lose situations during your #LowMorale experience? I'll be defining and exploring what I call #GOTCHA Culture soon. Like if any of these resonate, share with others, and don't forget to save this and follow so you'll know when I've dropped part 1!
September 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Does your organization have a GOTCHA Culture?
When we're excited about our work & its potential for good is exactly when we should be most aware & honoring of our capacity. Otherwise, excitement will be subsumed into others' ideas of passion - allowing reduction of resources and valorization of overwork. Honoring capacity = self-preservation.
🧵Yesterday, we had an all day reference/instruction planning meeting for the start of the term & my boss (the Dean) was saying some really smart things about capacity and not taking on too much when another colleague disagreed with her. She said that when we're excited about a project, our capacity
September 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
When we're excited about our work & its potential for good is exactly when we should be most aware & honoring of our capacity. Otherwise, excitement will be subsumed into others' ideas of passion - allowing reduction of resources and valorization of overwork. Honoring capacity = self-preservation.
Implementing a "Free to Focus" mandate while relying on Google Classroom is nasty work.
September 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Implementing a "Free to Focus" mandate while relying on Google Classroom is nasty work.
Hey hi hello - a quick reminder: If you want a bully to let up, giving them what they are demanding will intensify their intimidation/manipulation tactics. They want the power - not the deal.
September 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Hey hi hello - a quick reminder: If you want a bully to let up, giving them what they are demanding will intensify their intimidation/manipulation tactics. They want the power - not the deal.
You don't need to refresh your house for fall. Put that card back in your wallet and face what you're feeling. You have everything you need.
September 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
You don't need to refresh your house for fall. Put that card back in your wallet and face what you're feeling. You have everything you need.
Keeping Toni Morrison at the front of my mind and as a salve to my heart today. The ancestors have told us who we are and remind us of our purpose and innate humaneness.
September 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Keeping Toni Morrison at the front of my mind and as a salve to my heart today. The ancestors have told us who we are and remind us of our purpose and innate humaneness.
People often ignore empathy and seek performances of niceness instead.
September 13, 2025 at 2:42 AM
People often ignore empathy and seek performances of niceness instead.
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Renewers, I'm rounding out the year with a few more facilitation and teaching events. I hope to see you so we can learn and practice in community! Learn more and register: tinyurl.com/jhcmayku
September 13, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Renewers, I'm rounding out the year with a few more facilitation and teaching events. I hope to see you so we can learn and practice in community! Learn more and register: tinyurl.com/jhcmayku
I'm bringing back my #HoorayOfTheDay...
September 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I'm bringing back my #HoorayOfTheDay...