Webinar will take place on Zoom
Dates: 25.10.2021, 27.10.2021, 29.10.2021, 01.11.2021, 03.11.2021, 05.11.2021
Time: 10.30 – 12.30

We as LGBTIQ+ organisations and activists are working to empower the community and create safe and sustainable spaces for us, we are steeped in work that requires incredible amounts of strength, energy and time. We are frequently exposed to violence and injustice and carry individual and collective trauma, and we feel political repression and hostility towards our community . We feel anger, anguish, stress, frustration, pain and desperation of our contexts, and over this exposure can take a toll on us and the groups we are involved in when we disregard our own personal well-being and that of others.

This series of  webinars is an invitation to explore the role of self and collective care in our work necessary for our social movements. We will aim to encourage wellbeing as a collective strategy for creation of the sustainable movement itself, where the wellbeing of one becomes the responsibility of all.

Webinars will offer space for:

• Working deeper with the personal/inner dimension of activism, as attending to the personal and inner aspect of our experience is essential for activism that is both effective and sustainable;
• Discuss on the sustainable activism and creation of the organizational mechanisms for sustainability and support for the activists;
• Recognizing our needs for survival and health we need spaces and time for rest and renewal. Healthy food sustains us. Finding pleasure in our live connects us with purpose and happiness;
• Recognizing our Limits: Our bodies are not machines: we have biological, emotional and physical rhythms that we have to respect;
• Building Emotional Resilience so we have tools in our emotional kits to deal with vicarious/secondary trauma;
• To build Emotional Intelligence so we can find language for our experiences;
• Practice collective tools for liberation.

Throughout the webinars we will work on:

• Burnout & mental/physical health;
• Emotional literacy in working with fear, demotivation, and stress;
• Cultures of collective and self-care;
• Sustainable activism;
• Regenerative practices in groups;
• Community care and resilience;
• Movement level resilience;
• Understanding risk and threats;
• Regenerative organisational culture;
• Skills for mental effectiveness;
• Local and regional support structures;
• Burnout causes and prevention theory and practice - repression protection strategies.