Emotional Resilience in Community Organising

It takes commitment to be a community organiser. It calls on us to care deeply and to often organise around vital causes.

In this introductory webinar you will learn ways to think about, and increase, your emotional resilience in community organising and we will provide practical tools to support this.

In this workshop you will:

• Gain a better understanding of emotional resilience in the context of community organising. 
• Be introduced to stress states, how they show up in organising and the concept of the window of tolerance. 
• Be introduced to tools to support you to build your self-awareness and emotional resilience in your organising.

Meet the facilitators

Stephanie Wong is a community organiser, facilitator and collective care practitioner. She has won with many others on issues from citizenship for young people, securing better wages for 1000s of staff and winning housing for those seeking asylum. She has trained hundreds of community leaders who have gone on to win local and national policy change and political elections. She has taught at Stanford, Harvard, UCL and LSE University. She built Act Build Change with her husband Ricky in 2018 in response to some of the inaccessible ways organising was taught in the UK. Together, they hoped to give a contribution to the field of organising that would allow more of us to get great organising training in accessible, dignified and transformative ways.

Kennedy Walker has supported individuals, groups and organisations move through conflict, build power, cultivate knowledge and strengthen skills for over ten years. They’ve trained with the Gestalt Centre in London, Navigate and Training for Change in counselling skills, group facilitation, coaching and more. Alongside this they have campaigned and organised towards food, land and climate justice. In 2017, Kennedy co-founded Kinfolk Network, a network for black organisers and campaigners to learn from each other and build power. Kennedy holds a master's degree in Human Rights, Culture and Social Justice and is currently a trainee therapeutic counsellor.

Cost

• Free for Full Members (those with a paid membership) – email info@actbuildchange.com to request your free ticket.
• £15 for everyone else.

If you would like to become a Full Member (and get access to lots of other great events, trainings and more), visit our membership page to get started.

Access

This event will be held online using Zoom. The link will be shared with registered attendees before the start of the event.

To avoid difficulties accessing the workshop, please ensure that you register for the event with the same email address that you intend to use on Zoom.

Please let us know if there is anything we can do to support your participation in this session. This includes, but is not limited to, language, comfort, and access (physical, emotional, technological) needs.