How Healthy Campaigns Respond in the Face of Bad News
Examples – from 350.org and beyond – about ways people handled campaign losses in healthy, soul-giving, and strategic ways.
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Wellbeing_Self care
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Resilience Trees
Resilience Trees are a visual exercise to deepen our understanding of the practices that increase our resilience and strengthen our movements.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Following the Breath
Meditative tool to develop awareness in order to increase our capacity to show up, work together and bring about change in the world.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Body Scanning and Cultivating Somatic Awareness
Body Scanning is a wellbeing tool which can strengthen the capacity for holistic and regenerative leaderful organizing.
The Activist Handbook: Campaigning Guides for Activists
The Activist Handbook is a ‘wikipedia’ style website that provides guides and resources for people to become effective activists.
Nonviolent Campaigning, Organising and Wellbeing Resources | Şiddetsiz Kampanya, Örgütlenme ve Esenlik Kaynakları (Turkish – Türkçe)
A collection of resources on nonviolence, campaigning, organising and well being in Turkish collated by Şiddetsizlik Merkezi.
Faire face au roulement des membres (Français) [Navigating turnover in Activist Groups in French)
Guide élaboré pour fournir aux groupes militants des idées et des stratégies pour faire face au roulement des membres, en particulier dans le cas des groupes dirigés par des étudiants.
We Need a Climate Movement that Addresses the Trauma of Fighting for a Burning Planet
To build an impactful climate justice movement able to face the challenges ahead we must first build cultures that care for the people doing the work.
There’s No Place for Burnout in a Burning World
Climate activists can start to build a stronger culture of care by taking burnout seriously and understanding its root causes.
Manejando la Renovación de Membresia en Grupos Activistas (Spanish – Español)
Guía elaborada para proporcionar ideas y estrategias a los grupos de activistas a la hora de hacer frente a la rotación de miembros, especialmente en el caso de los grupos dirigidos por estudiantes
Navigating Turnover in Activist Groups
A Guide developed to provide ideas and strategies for activists groups to implement when dealing with turnover, especially with student led groups.
Jail Solidarity and Supporting Prisoners
Guides, stories and studies on ways in which campaigners and protesters have responded to arrest and imprisonment for political activities.
Campaign Wellbeing Bingo
A bingo sheet full of low barrier things folks can do to stay healthier and handle stress better when under pressure.
10 Great Resources on Activist Wellbeing
Are you an activist experiencing stress or burnout? These articles, videos and tips will help you stay healthy and well while working to change the world.
Movements and leaders have seasons – it’s important to know which one you are in
Learning to attune to the cycles of our own leadership can help us know when to do the right thing at the right time.
Changemaker Chat with Tyson Yunkaporta: Indigenous Thinking
Tyson Yunkaporta discusses Indigenous thinking on power, change, being and coping with chaos.
How do we keep going? Activist burnout and personal sustainability in social movements
Activism, burn out and stress – The impacts of burnout and strategies for preventing it, on a personal, organisational and movement level.
Tips for Life in Lockdown
Tips for personal and collective wellbeing and resilience during Covid-19 pandemic lockdowns. Insights from a survey by Commons Librarians.
5 Principles to Guide Campaigning in 2021
Ideas about how organisations and grassroots collectives can campaign in 2021 – it’s not a ‘normal’ year.Here are 5 principles to guide you.
Navigating the ‘Festive Season’ as an Activist
Holly Hammond reflects on the challenges and opportunities of an activist Christmas. Great tips on surviving the holidays.