Welcome to The Rest of Activism
Burnout Prevention & Recovery for Activists
Fed up choosing between yourself and what you care about? Healing starts right here. Inside you, inside me, in this exact moment. And then it ripples out to the world.
If you’re wondering how to make that happen, I’d love to help.
Getting 1:1 Support
Creative coaching. Rites of Passage. Healing Work. Deep Dreaming. Grief Tending. Movement medicine. Active Hope. And so, so much more.
By taking a deep dive into the heart of how things are for you at the moment, we’ll discover the resources, guidance and direction you need for what’s ahead. They are ideal if you are recovering from burnout, want to make a significant change, have a transition coming up, or are seeking healing from a painful experience.
Earth Calling coaching sessions are deep discernment and healing experiences, either as a one-off session or on an ongoing basis.
They can be for anyone, but have a particular focus on people who would identify in some way as an activist or changemaker.
About Me
Hi, I’m Jo Musker-Sherwood (she/her); culture worker, mother and deeply feeling human.
Coming to environmental work in my early twenties filled my life with meaning, but after time it began to take an unbearable toll. I thought that perhaps it was a ‘me’ problem. That I was too sensitive, needed too much, was too much.
After giving my all to founding a fast growing charity I truly believed in, I was devastated to realise I would need to leave. I was mentally and physically broken, scared for my own financial survival and full of despair about my capacity to change the world.
What I wish I could have told myself then was that this burnout experience was a kind of dying experience that would ultimately birth a whole new way for me to be in the world.
I see our individual experiences, such as burnout, as an expression of our collective experiences under late stage capitalism. There is a dying to the old way of violently extracting from ourselves and each other that needs to happen in order for us to adapt, survive and thrive.
With that in mind, I have come to believe that some of our most courageous acts of resistance start from within ourselves, rippling out.
Through culture work, workshops, facilitation, 1:1 mentoring, and my online programmes I come alongside changemakers and changemaking organisations who want to find healthy, non-violent and transformational ways of being in the world.
Drawing especially on the wisdom of grief tending practices, nature/ body connection, and radical governance practices, for example, I help people find their most powerful and authentic way of turning up to the work that is theirs to do in the world.
Organisations I’ve worked with…
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