Mental Health in the Palestine Solidarity Movement: Supporting Each Other
Mental health in the Palestine solidarity movement amidst a genocide: Fostering persistence and supporting each other through stress, burnout and trauma.
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Wellbeing_Self care
The Impact of Climate Activism on Health: Exploring Positive and Negative Effects
Drawing on interviews with climate activists, this article explores the top five negative and positive health impacts of climate activism.
Climate Activism Coping Strategies: 5 tips for mental and physical health
Climate activists share their top five coping strategies to deal with the health impacts of climate activism.
Activist Burnout Guide with Videos
In this guide from the Activist Handbook they explain how to deal with activist burnout and how to prevent it.
Board Members, We Need to Talk About Palestine
Many community organisations are facing criticism over Israel and Palestine. Governance expert Kate Larsen provides guidance.
What to do when we ‘Lose’
Some important lessons on dealing with loss from a recent generation-defining struggle in New Zealand: the Save Happy Valley Campaign.
How do we Encourage Activists to Celebrate Wins and come back from Losses?
How do we encourage activists to celebrate wins, and come back from losses using rest and reflection? Insights and learnings from Global Grassroots Support Network GGSN.
10 Tips for how the Climate Movement can Improve Experiences for Activists with Diverse Health Needs
Researchers interviewed climate activists about their physical and mental health experiences. Here are 10 tips based on the activists’ experiences, insights and recommendations.
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.
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.