Resources

A Collective Care Workbook for Organisers

A tool to support community organisers to strengthen and build collective care in their organising practice.

Latifa Akay | 19 May 2026

We are excited to launch our Collective Care Workbook for Organisers, an online resource to support community organisers to strengthen and build collective care in their organising practice.

About the workbook

This workbook is designed for community organisers and is divided into sections based on theme.

The workbook begins with an introduction and opportunity to make intentions around how you will use the resource. Each theme then contains teaching, activities and tools to build care in your organising:

Organising relationships and care.
Boundaries and organising.
Navigating stress and urgency.
Anti-oppression and intersectionality.
Joy and celebration.
Rest and recovery.
Building caring teams.

At the end of the workbook we include a list of helpful resources.

How to use the workbook

The content in the workbook will benefit from reflection and discussion so we recommend that you take your time and try to do all of the activities. If you are working through the workbook independently, we recommend that you choose an accountability buddy to reflect on the learnings with.

Alongside exploring this resource we encourage that you attend our live trainings on collective care (see our Events page for upcoming trainings), as being supported by a trained care practitioner is invaluable.

Start exploring the workbook

With thanks to Joseph Rowntree Foundation who funded the creation of this resource.

Resources

A Collective Care Workbook for Organisers

This workbook is a tool to support community organisers to strengthen and build collective care in their organising practice.

Author

Latifa Akay

Lead of Impact and Learning at Act Build Change

Latifa has over a decade of experience working and organising with communities around social justice issues and on arts-based community projects. Latifa is interested in transformative approaches to safety and justice and produced and co-wrote The Radical Safeguarding Workbook in her former role as Director of Education at Maslaha. Latifa approaches organising with the belief that collective action is all we have and that only by building solidarity across struggles and oppressions can liberation truly be a possibility. Latifa is a trustee at the Inclusive Mosque Initiative and was co-director of the 2021 MFest at the British Library. She holds an LLM in Human Rights Law and before moving to London in 2012, she worked for two years as a journalist in Istanbul.