"The experience of burnout has a particular kind of poignancy. Having started out to help others, we’re somehow getting wounded ourselves. What we had in mind was expressing compassion. Instead what we seem to be adding to the universe is more suffering – our own – while we’re supposedly helping…” How Can I Help? by Ram Dass & Paul Gorman
This participatory, interactive workshop series will help you learn how to sustain yourself and your social change work. Avoid burnout and compassion fatigue by cultivating a healthy personal ecology. We will help you understand the inner and outer causes and effects of burnout, and provide ideas for prevention and recovery. Participants share their experiences, practice new strategies, and take home useful tools.
Our workshop can be designed to meet the needs of your group, organization, or conference. An introductory overview can be done in 1 1/2 hours; A more extended day-long or two-evening workshop, or a multi-week course, provides exposure to a wider variety of resources, more in-depth experience, and the opportunity to practice new tools.
Here's a link to a relevant article from one of the authors of Active Hope:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/resilience-hope-behaviour-bad-news?newsfeed=true
This participatory, interactive workshop series will help you learn how to sustain yourself and your social change work. Avoid burnout and compassion fatigue by cultivating a healthy personal ecology. We will help you understand the inner and outer causes and effects of burnout, and provide ideas for prevention and recovery. Participants share their experiences, practice new strategies, and take home useful tools.
Our workshop can be designed to meet the needs of your group, organization, or conference. An introductory overview can be done in 1 1/2 hours; A more extended day-long or two-evening workshop, or a multi-week course, provides exposure to a wider variety of resources, more in-depth experience, and the opportunity to practice new tools.
Here's a link to a relevant article from one of the authors of Active Hope:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/resilience-hope-behaviour-bad-news?newsfeed=true
Register Here for the next workshop, May 17 & 31!
Sustainable Activism Workshops
with Rebecca Krantz and Jean McElhaney
In 2011-2012, Rebecca is on the faculty of this political leadership training program. See
http://www.progressiveleaders.org/leadershipprograms/fellowship.htm
for more information.
http://www.progressiveleaders.org/leadershipprograms/fellowship.htm
for more information.
Center for Progressive Leadership Political Leaders Fellowship
Don B. Katz
Don Katz has a Masters and a PhD in Botany and Horticulture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has worked in computers, financial investing, and as a stay-at-home single parent of two children with significant disabilities. He is a donor and activist with organizations working for progressive social justice, including serving as treasurer, board president, and interim executive director of Wisconsin Community Fund, as founding partner of the Donor Collaborative of Wisconsin, and as a board member of the Seasons Fund for Social Transformation. Don has been a practicing Buddhist for over 30 years and is ordained as a lay leader in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. He has also trained as a social change agent with Robert Gass, and as a meeting facilitator with Community at Work in San Francisco and Facilitating By Heart in Madison, WI. Don enjoys bicycling and cross-country skiing, and is a musician who loves to sing and play the guitar. He is happily married and loves working with his wife, Rebecca Krantz.
Jean McElhaney
Jean has a Masters' in Counseling Psychology, is an ordained interfaith minister, has trained as a mediator, and has been a counselor, peace activist, workshop presenter, and group facilitator. Jean has a longstanding and deep interest in nonviolence, spiritual activism, and the integration of inner work and outer work. In particular, she enjoys supporting people who work to make the world better on a variety of levels, from therapy to broad social change work, helping them find hope and resilience despite the challenges. In recent years Jean has been passionately engaged in learning and practicing Nonviolent Communication.