This is an experiential, practical skills workshop for building resilience to sustain activism for social and environmental justice.

This workshop will draw on Joanna Macy's ‘Work that Reconnects / Active Hope’, a framework to help us connect with our emotional response to crises and move forward with renewed perspectives and tools for resilience. We will also be taking inspiration from Adrienne Maree Brown's 'Pleasure Activism', which explores the politics of feeling good and advocates for pleasure and joy in activism.

How do we sustain our actions and remain hopeful when things get tough?

How can we recognise signals of burnout and anxiety so we can respond adequately?

How can we foster pleasure activism and active hope as important elements in our groups, spaces and actions?

Join us for an afternoon of reflective practices for understanding emotional response, focusing into our bodies through gentle yoga and meditation and also letting loose to enjoy ourselves through play.

This will be an exploratory session of listening and sharing to discover ways to rebuild and re-ignite. Please bring your own lived and learned experience!

The workshop will be facilitated by Claudia Tormey and Miriam Needham who are both trained and experienced Active Hope facilitators. Miriam is also a yoga teacher, theatre maker and professional clown. Both Claudia and Miriam have been involved in movement and activism from environmental justice to reproductive rights.

*Unfortunately this venue is not wheelchair accessible, there are stairs to climb.