This body of work offers a range of tools, collective and personal, which can make our activism more effective and sustainable.
These are tools which can help us avoid burnout and stay in it for the long haul, adding continuity to our movement building. And they can be used to ensure the collective and organisational dimensions of our activism exemplify the values we’re struggling for.
Those of us involved in social change face enormous challenges. Often, on a daily basis, we experience the injustice, loss, and suffering in the world around us. We also meet our own responses to that; our fears, frustrations and anger. It becomes important to ask: How can we best work with these responses creatively to achieve our goals? Where can we find the personal resources and skills that could make our action more effective and sustainable? And what collective tools can we use to enable our groups, organisations, and networks to better embody our values? Engaging with these questions, these trainings take a ‘regenerative’ approach, which goes beyond sustainability, to explore how we can organise in ways that renew and revitalize our resources. It can help us stay inspired, nourished, and more creative in our strategic thinking and development of tactics.
