Video Recordings
Catch up videos from the Rest of Activism sessions (Thursday lunchtimes) can be found on the Catch up page (available to members only).
Becoming a Joy-Fuelled Activist session with Jo. Delivered on 5 October 2022
3 month pilot Workshop Recordings
Week 1: Watch this half hour Introduction to Resilience video from our first session, giving an overview of the approaches that will inform the techniques shared throughout the membership.
Week 3: Catch up on this 20 minute session on Eco-Anxiety; What is it and how do we work with it?
Week 5: In our fifth session, we focus on ways we can cultivate self-compassion as a boost to our resilience levels.
Week 2: Watch this powerful talk from the amazing youth activist Katie Hodgetts all about ecological activism, mental health and burnout. You can find out more about Katie’s organisation supporting young activists, The Resilience Project, here.
Week 4: Listen to Mark Leonard talk on Mindfulness, agency, and social change. This session includes a 7 minute exercise drawing from the metta bhavana meditation practice.
Week 6: Our final session.
2nd phase Membership recordings
7 February 2022 - 2nd Meditation with Vivian Winterhoff
28 January 2022 - Meditation with Vivian Winterhoff
6 December 2021 - Looking at building resilience to shame and how it affects our climate work. To learn more about the Power of Vulnerability by Brené Brown watch her TED Talk.
26 November 2021 - Processing COP Part 2- In this session we revisited Joanna Macy's 'spiral' to work through our feelings and experiences during COP26. The poem that is shared at the end but not included in the recording is 'Impossible' by Harry Baker.
8 November 2021: Processing COP26 Part One - Using the first 2 parts of Joanna Macy’s spiral from ‘The Work That Reconnects’ to discuss and process reactions to the work done at COP26.
29 October 2021 - Heroes journey revisited: Are there limitations to seeing ourselves as heroes? What happens when we get stuck in hero mode? And what can we do about it?
4 October 2021 - The Hero’s Journey.
24 September 2021 - Why are boundaries so great? Jo talks about why setting boundaries are so important for wellbeing.
6 September 2021 - in this session Jo shares a short meditation based on the 5-4-3-2-1 technique to help us ground when things are feeling especially stressful.
Seminar Videos
As the window of opportunity to halt climate change grows ever tighter, it would not be surprising to find ourselves wondering if there is really time for self-care in a climate emergency.
But emerging from lockdown, many of us have experienced challenges in this current pandemic that have had unprecedented and profound impacts on our wellbeing.
So perhaps this event’s question is better phrased, can we afford not to set aside time for self-care in a climate emergency?
Our chair and panellists each themselves play pivotal roles in responding to the climate emergency and know only too well the challenges of this delicate balance.
Each of our panellists gave a short overview of their understanding of the interplay between self-care and the climate emergency, followed by questions from our chair, and the final 45 minutes for Q and A from the audience.
Take a look at the recording above (click the image), and subscribe to Climate.Emergence to hear about more events like this and receive weekly ideas for practicing self-care in a climate emergency.
Resilience Exercises
Introduction to a breath exercise that can alleviate stress in as short a time as 10 seconds when used regularly throughout your day.
An 8 minute exercise to release tension from your body and ground in the present moment.
A 10 minute exercise taken from the Positive Intelligence Coaching Framework to reduce stress by helping us to see that we can convert any of our everyday stresses into a gift.
