A Workshop Series for Sustaining Your Work and Well-Being
Activism and organizing can be deeply rewarding, but they often come with intense stress, burnout, and emotional fatigue. In these challenging times, building resilience is essential — not just to sustain your efforts but also to protect your mental, emotional, and physical well-being.
Practical Resilience for Activists and Organizers is a transformational workshop series designed to help you cultivate the resilience you need to thrive in this work. Through evidence-based yoga, mindfulness techniques, and self-compassion practices, you will learn how to manage stress, enhance mental clarity, and stay focused on your purpose. Whether you’re advocating for justice, organizing grassroots movements, or supporting marginalized communities, these workshops will provide you with practical tools to navigate the challenges of activism with greater ease and clarity.
Workshop Structure: Three Core Sessions
The workshop series includes three core sessions, each designed to strengthen a different aspect of resilience:
- Calm the Body: Yoga Techniques for Stress Relief
Learn simple yet powerful yoga practices to release tension, calm the nervous system, and restore balance to both body and mind. - Cultivate Clarity: Mindfulness Strategies for Mental Focus
Discover mindfulness techniques to improve focus, enhance mental clarity, and support decision-making—critical tools for navigating complex and high-stakes situations. - Deepen Connection: Build Resilience Through Self-Compassion and Community
Explore practices that nurture self-compassion and cultivate meaningful connections, both for personal well-being and stronger community solidarity.
Each session offers a safe, supportive space to deepen your practice, learn new strategies, and leave with practical tools you can integrate immediately into your daily life and work.
Flexible Workshop Format
The format of the workshop is adaptable to meet the needs of your organization. Whether you’re looking for:
- A one-day retreat
- A multi-day intensive
- Weekly sessions over several weeks
We will collaborate to design a series that fits your team’s schedule, size, and goals. This flexibility ensures that your group can integrate the material at a pace and intensity that works best for you.
Key Takeaways
By the end of this workshop series, you will:
- Develop greater mental clarity and emotional resilience to handle difficult situations with more ease.
- Enhance your decision-making through improved focus and presence of mind.
- Cultivate stronger social-emotional intelligence to foster more effective collaboration and communication within your team and community.
- Renew your sense of purpose and empowerment, giving you the strength to continue your vital work with more care and sustainability.
Why Work With Me?
I bring a unique combination of lived experience, professional expertise, and deep personal understanding of the challenges that activists and organizers face. Some highlights of my background include:
- Years of service in HIV/AIDS advocacy, including serving on the Wisconsin HIV Prevention Planning Council, organizing an AIDS benefit concert, doctoral research on musical responses to HIV/AIDS (dissertation), and helping to found the Wisconsin AIDS Ride (formerly AIDS Network Cycles Together).
- Volunteering to bring mindfulness practices into prisons, supporting incarcerated individuals with tools for emotional and psychological resilience.
- Board Chair of onelove.yoga, where I helped integrate yoga and mindfulness practices into schools
- Personal experience with burnout, including navigating panic attacks, chronic pain, and stress-related health issues.
- Certified RYT-500 Kripalu Yoga Teacher, trained in trauma-informed and evidence-based yoga and meditation practices.
Having personally experienced the toll that activism can take on both body and mind, I am deeply committed to helping you develop the tools you need to navigate these challenges with resilience and care.
Cost & Accessibility: Dana (Generosity)
Lake many of my teachers, I offer these workshops in the spirit of generosity, following the practice of dana (Sanskrit for “giving”). I believe that resilience and self-care should be accessible to all, particularly those on the frontlines of social justice and advocacy work.
Ready to Build Resilience for Your Team?
Are you ready build the capacity for collective well-being, so we can continue doing this important work for the long haul?
Let’s discuss how this workshop series can meet the needs of your group. Contact me now to schedule a consultation and design a program that works for you.
