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An event organised by
the Transition Network - if interested the deadline is 2 Feb.
See details
below.
Hello hello ... I hope this finds you well and rested
after the festive break ... Burnout has been a strong and recurring
theme throughout the series of Regional Network events we
have hosted for those involved in Transition across the UK. We will
be offering a two day introductory workshop in the UK in March for
those in need of support - please be in touch if you would like to
join us, or if you would like to explore the possibility of us
bringing the workshop to your community or region.
Below is more information and here is a link to the
Facebook event - please do share this with anyone
you know who is need of this support ...
From Burnout to Balance: Co-creating
Cultures of Collective and Self Care
2 - 4th March, Bristol,
UK Sliding
Scale £25 - £150
When we think of our escalating
refugee/hospitality crisis, mounting inequalities, eco-systemic
collapse and runaway climate change - the challenges we face can
seem insurmountable. No matter what we do, it never seems to be
enough. The transformations that we are looking for seem to require
such immense and relentless effort that the self and mutual-care
necessary to sustain ourselves and our groups long-term can feel
like an unaffordable or self-indulgent luxury. If this resonates
with you, if you have felt or feel on the edge of burnout and want
to develop insights and skills to avoid it, join us for a
nourishing weekend reflecting on and exploring effective and
regenerative activism and personal sustainability through the
co-creation of cultures of collective- and self-care.
A Space to Reflect,
Rest and Replenish
This introductory weekend draws
on ecological/systems thinking, embodied holistic-participatory
learning, nature connection, mindfulness, Process Work and the Work
that Reconnects, to explore the causes of, and tools for addressing
and avoiding burnout and disillusionment within our movements for
social/ecological justice and renewal. The workshop offers a space
of reflection and rest as well as practical methods for engaging in
the inner and interpersonal 'work' that underpins effective
activism and social change.
Content
Includes: -
Practices of of collective- and self-care - Changing behavioural
patterns that cause burnout - Building group dynamics that support
sustainable activism - Avoiding disillusionment/staying inspired -
What is 'enough'? This non-residential weekend training has grown
out of our experiences of facilitating 'Sustaining Resistance:
Empowering Renewal' a 10 day residential training developed and
delivered at Ecodharma in the Catalunyan Pyrenees. Who is it
for?
If you are working for social
or environmental justice, paid or unpaid, whether you call yourself
an activist or campaigner or not, we would love you to join
us! Facilitation
Team Claire Milne,
Madelanne Rust-D'Eye and Kathryn Tulip will co-facilitate this
weekend workshop. Claire has been working within the social
and environmental justice movement for two decades. Within that
time she has managed to get well and truly burned out - and reap
the rich rewards entwined within learning how to recover from this
dis-ease of our times. Claire is now the Inner Transition
international Coordinator for Transition Network www.transitionnetwork.org, which involves coordinating the
integration of Inner Transition across the international Transition
movement, along with creating collaborative relationships with
allies and critical friends.
Madelanne is a Canadian body-based
psychotherapist with a private practice based in Totnes, Devon,
England
www.BodyIntelligence.ca. She believes in the transformational
potential that body- and movement-based psychological paradigms
hold for global culture. She offers experiential educational
programs and consulting for organizations, communities, and
change-makers, teaching the latest insights from neuroscience and
embodied psychology to build collaborative group cultures from the
inside-out.
Kathryn is a trainer and faciltator with
Navigate
www.navigate.org.uk, a training collective dedicated to
supporting individuals and groups working for social and ecological
justice. She has been campaigning and taking direct action in
various parts of the social and ecological justice movements for
the past 30 years. Kathryn experienced burnout about 12 years ago
and is passionate about supporting others to develop healthy
practices to avoid burnout and to create resilient and effective
groups and organisations.
Investment Sliding scale from £25 - £150 including
food (non-residential) We do not want money to prevent anyone
from attending so please give what you can afford. We have set the
lowest donation at £25 because we feel this is an amount everyone,
even those working almost exclusively for free, is able to generate
between now and the course. We hope and trust that participants
will contribute generously to enable this workshop to be
financially viable and so that we are able to continue to make this
important work available for the growing number of activists in
need of it.
Applying for a
Place To apply for
a place please complete a short application form:
https://goo.gl/forms/vZ5TdQKpnj7NHHBj2.
Application deadline Friday 2nd
February 2018 If you have
any questions please contact Kathryn by email: kathryn@navigate.org.uk or phone: 07795 171 652
We look forward to hearing from
you! Claire, Madelanne and Kathryn
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