Radical Rest & Self-Care for Racial Justice Advocates: Part II

Building on Radical Rest and Self-Care Part I, this session offers more concrete tools to identify and reduce burnout. It explores collective strategies to sustain our bodies, minds, and movements amid rising capitalist, racial, and gendered violence and shrinking support systems.

Participants will:

• Map eight types of holistic rest with both low- and high-energy intervention options
• Reflect on how trauma drives patterns of overwork and burnout in our communities
• Assess your proximity to burn out using practical self-inventory tools
• Draft rest-centered workplace practices rooted in equity and long-term retention

*Participants are encouraged to attend Radical Rest and Self-Care for Racial Justice Advocates Part 1 before enrolling in Part 2.

Course Overview

Under the current presidential administration, many racial justice advocates face high caseloads, job insecurity, and the trauma of fighting seemingly-intractable systems of oppression.

In this landscape, scholar-poet Audre Lorde reminds us that rest isn’t indulgence — it’s survival. If you’re exhausted from fighting battles on multiple fronts, this workshop is your act of defiance.

Radical Rest & Self-Care for Racial Justice Advocates, our new webinar series offered in two 2.5-hour sessions, equips you with tools to:

• Regulate your nervous system after years of high-stakes advocacy under political violence
• Unlearn “urgency addiction” — a trauma response to the nonstop crises of the Trump era
• Spot systemic sabotage — including how racial capitalism exploits your labor while denying your humanity
• Share sustainable strategies with lawyers and advocates on the front lines of legislative fights

➡️ Workshop Highlights:

• “Rest Under Siege”: how Trump-era tactics (e.g., deliberate overload, strategic confusion) drain advocates
• Case studies on organizations resisting burnout culture in the second Trump administration

➡️ Your Takeaway: Personalized rest tools — because you can’t pour from an empty cup.