Resilience For Sustainable Activism

Many of us entered movement work out of urgency and many of us are exhausted by it. The Resilience Toolkit offers an embodied, justice-aligned framework for sustaining activism over the long arc of the struggle. Rather than treating burnout, reactivity and conflict as personal failures, The Toolkit helps us understand them as predictable stress and trauma responses - and equips us with real-time regulation skills that expand our capacity to stay engaged without collapse or numbness.

Together, we’ll explore: How stress and trauma shape movement behavior (withdrawal, escalation, fracture) and how embodied stabilization interrupts those patterns in real time.

Embodied solidarity: how listening, repair, and collective care become possible only when the nervous system has enough bandwidth.

Rest and joy as conditions of political strategy, not rewards for after the work is done.

Practical tools to increase steadiness and discernment into movement, organizing, and mutual aid work.

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