Cultivating A Resilient Practice
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Explains how we need to understand crises as historical problems, along a chain of continuity, and not as people’s problems only at a given point of time.
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Sarah Ahmed provides a survival kit for “killjoys” or people who are rubbing against and seeking to change the status quo.
Download the book chapter here: LINK
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from IGLI 2019. Download LINK
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A toolkit from Michelle Emery at DePaul University that outlines an approach for healing driven by community, prioritized healing for ourselves and others, and was geared towards the transformation of systems and institutions that perpetuate oppression and violence in our communities.
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By We Rise. This activity can be used to connect participants to their sense of resilience and strength.
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By The Everyday Peace Initiative. This toolkit focuses on personal experience of obtaining everyday peace and offers practical tools and strategies that you can implement to avoid or respond to everyday violence in their own lives, communities, and globally.
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Guide for both asylum-seekers and relocation providers to ensure affirming and informed practices.
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By Eroles Project. Download LINK
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By Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Rights. This book traces how feminist organizing and activism can be sustained by meeting physical, spiritual, and emotional needs. The authors’ primary motive is to put the ‘soul’ back in activism by recording the experiences of over 100 women-identified activists from 45 countries.
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This is a self-help manual with exercises and reflections on how to care for oneself and think more about healing while engaging in activist work.
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By CREA. This toolkit was developed to help individuals and organisations dedicated to advancing a feminist social change agenda and proposes a framework for transformative feminist leadership. NOTE: The appendix at the end includes mind-body-spirit exercises and activities to try with groups.
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A guide for conducting Integrated Security Workshops for women human rights activists. It also has different exercises for facilitators. Integrated Security covers all aspects of an activist's work and life, from health and personal networks to secure working spaces. All in order to secure the activist’s survival as Human Rights Defenders, to find strategies for security.
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This is a manual that helps people reflect on how defending human rights can affect women’s security and well-being and why it is important to develop both individual and collective protection measures. It also helps people bridge the gap between international mechanisms and grassroots communities, and create more effective strategies.
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By the podcast For the Wild.
Homebound: Personal Preparedness in Advance with Reverend M. KALANI SOUZA
Homebound: Decentralizing the Power of Healing with Dr. RUPA MARYA
Homebound: Capitalists and Other Cannibals with ALNOOR LADHA
Homebound: Eco-Justice in the Age of Disasters with JACQUI PATTERSON
Homebound: Confronting Crisis with Divine Dignity with ANDREW HARVEY
Homebound: Transforming Toxic Movement Culture with THE WILDFIRE PROJECT
Homebound: The Roots and Shoots of Earth-based Community with STARHAWK
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By the podcast For the Wild.
DeeplyRooted: Black Mary-Olivering with brontë velez
DeeplyRooted: Declaring Interdependence with MILLA PRINCE
DeeplyRooted: Remembering Back into Ourselves with KAILEA FREDERICK
DeeplyRooted: “And God is the Water” with LYLA JUNE
DeeplyRooted: Honoring our Ancestors and the Earth with LEAH PENNIMAN
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Khuzy M., 2019 IGLI Participant
Jamie D., 2019 IGLI Facilitator
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Download here. From the Activist Trauma Support archive.
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Seeking counseling or therapy can be a vulnerable process.To that, add the challenges that people with marginalized identities face such as neglect, prejudice, silencing, micro-aggressions, and language or financial barriers. Check out this BIPOC Therapy Fund for Inclusive Therapists here: they have therapists with open availability with diverse focuses, therapeutic approaches, and cultural competencies. it’s important to note that therapists are licensed and based in the U.S and Canada and therefor limitations may apply, but some are multilingual and might be open to telehealth appointments. You can fill out a preference sheet to get matched here.
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By Sexual Trauma and Recovery Service. When we have experienced trauma, we can, at times, feel overwhelmed by memories, thoughts and feelings. Sometimes we feel ‘triggered’ and experience very strong symptoms of trauma such as flashbacks, nightmares, panic attacks and dissociation. Sometimes for no apparent reason we can start to feel really emotional, perhaps we feel scared or perhaps we get really sad and tears start welling up and we’re not sure why, this can be when our body remembers something, is triggered into an old memory, but perhaps our brain consciously doesn’t so we feel disconnected and unsure of what is going on.
Grounding techniques are designed to help you be ‘grounded’ in the here and now – not thinking about the past or being overwhelmed by your thoughts or feelings.
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25 Grounding Techniques for Anxiety, PTSD, & Panic.” Download here
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This leaflet aims to look at the
possible psychological impacts of
such activism and also looks at
coping strategies and other tips to
avoid burnout