[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]How can collective and organisational spaces ensure the wellbeing of the people who are part of their causes and movements? How can these spaces become enablers for those doing people work to continue with it?<\/p>\n
Here, we have resources \u2013 both TARSHI\u2019s and external \u2013 on ways to think about, imagine, and create collective care. The resources offer strategies, guidance, tips and good practices to encourage organisations and collectives to think about ways to avoid staff and members\u2019 burnout and work towards their wellbeing.<\/p>\n
If your organisation has any such resources, do share with us at selfcare@tarshi.net<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and we’ll add them here.<\/p>\n TARSHI\u2019s resources<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In its 25 years of work, TARSHI has developed various kinds of resources and activities that cover sexuality, wellbeing, stress management and burnout prevention. Read about these in detail in the Our work<\/a><\/span> section.<\/p>\n The worksheets<\/a> in the self-care<\/a> section can also be used collectively,\u00a0 with all members of an organisation\/collective doing them individually. Organisations\/collectives can then request members to share their thoughts on the worksheets (although not the contents of what they wrote, as that is private and confidential). These could be used as a collective care exercise, or as ideas for policies on collective care.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]How can collective and organisational spaces ensure the wellbeing of the people who are part of their causes and movements? How can these spaces become enablers for those doing people work to continue with it?<\/p>\n Here, we have resources \u2013 both TARSHI\u2019s and external \u2013 on ways to think about, imagine, and create collective care. The resources offer strategies, guidance, tips and good practices to encourage organisations and collectives to think about ways to avoid staff and members\u2019 burnout and work towards their wellbeing.<\/p>\n If your organisation has any such resources, do share with us at selfcare@tarshi.net<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and we’ll add them here.<\/p>\n Collaborative resources of TARSHI and Nazariya<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n In 2018 and 2019 TARSHI and Nazariya: A Queer Feminist Resource Group collaborated (with AJWS support) to conduct stress and self-care needs assessment workshops in Delhi, Guwahati, and in Hyderabad and documented unique stressors faced by people working in areas related to sexuality, across different socio-political and regional contexts. This assessment was followed by a consultation in December 2019 which was video documented, to share the learnings from the needs assessment and discuss next steps.\u00a0 During the pandemic they<\/span> reached out to the workshop and consultation attendees to document their experiences.\u00a0 The outcome being these three films on self and collective care.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The film focuses on the geography of stress that is familiar to many human rights activists and caseworkers, but rarely, if ever, articulated and expressed. It introduces the viewer to the concept of stress and burnout, self-care and mental health issues, faced by those working in the human rights field.[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AvqPc7NYIK0&t=5s”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n This film focuses on stress, burnout and self-care needs assessment, based on our work. This presents the perspectives and responses of participants and resource persons, some with experience spanning decades, working on taboo subjects such as sexuality and rights, disability justice and mental health, with communities who face minority stress, who are part of co-creating this ongoing process with us.[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JX9vfqpgOBY”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n This film focuses on stress, self-care, language and vocabulary. The lack of articulation, that helps people express their stress, be heard, understood, and be accepted, is a key issue. This is more than a language component and involves the Activist<\/a> Tra<\/a>uma<\/a> Support<\/a><\/span><\/span> (ATS) was formed in 2004 in the UK, due to a recognition of the potential for people involved in political activism to have distressing or traumatic experiences. Over the following decade, ATS ran Wellbeing Spaces at a number of large convergences like G8 and Climate Camps, facilitated workshops at many gatherings, supported individuals by telephone as well as face-to-face, produced the literature available on this site and collaborated with groups doing similar work in other countries. The initial focus on post-traumatic stress was widened to include burnout when it was observed to be a problem in activist groups and grassroots campaigns.<\/span><\/p>\n On this site you will find readings on the intersection of trauma and politics, personal accounts, and information sheets in English and a few other languages, which can be downloaded, printed and distributed in any number.<\/span><\/p>\n In order to assist those thinking of ways to provide information, preventative action and support to people exposed to trauma and burnout through political activism, they have included their ATS internal guidelines and entry questionnaire in their archive.<\/p>\n Among the many useful <\/span>resources<\/a><\/span> on this website, here is one on <\/span>Sustainable activism and avoiding<\/a> burnout.<\/a><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”mulled_wine” style=”shadow”][vc_column_text]The Antares Foundation <\/a><\/span>is a non-profit organisation based in the Netherlands.\u00a0 They work across all ranges and aspects of staff care and psychosocial support for humanitarian, developmental and human rights organisations worldwide.<\/span><\/p>\n With their experience of working with both national and international humanitarian agencies worldwide, the Antares Foundation has seen the importance of addressing stress on all levels of an organisations. Following requests they got for information, ideas and strategies for developing a stress program for humanitarian workers, they developed the document Managing stress in humanitarian workers: guidelines for good practice<\/a> intended to help <\/span>organisations define their own needs in relation to stress management and develop their own staff care system.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”mulled_wine” style=”shadow”][vc_column_text]FRIDA<\/a><\/span> provides young feminist organisers with the resources they need to amplify their voices and bring attention to the social justice issues they care about. They enable the support, flexibility and networks to sustain young feminist visions.<\/span><\/p>\n FRIDA considers self-care as a feminist political strategy to ensure the feminist movement sustainability and their personal resilience.<\/span><\/p>\n The article <\/span>Practising individual and collective self-care at FRIDA<\/a><\/span> has some good tangible examples of individual and collective self care has been penned by all team members of FRIDA.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”mulled_wine” style=”shadow”][vc_column_text]Manah Wellness<\/a> is all about giving individuals and businesses the tools to create more mentally healthy workplaces.<\/span><\/p>\n Developed by <\/span>Beyond Blue<\/a><\/span><\/span> and supported by the Mentally Healthy Workplace Alliance, Heads Up calls on business leaders to make a commitment and start taking action in their workplaces. It also encourages everyone in the workplace to play their part in creating a mentally healthy working environment, take care of their own mental health, and look out for their colleagues.<\/span><\/p>\n The website provides a wide range of resources, information and advice for individuals and organisations – all of which are designed to offer simple, practical and, importantly, achievable guidance.<\/span><\/p>\n You can also create an action plan that’s tailored for your business. This interactive tool will help you define and prioritise your goals, identify risk areas and take a step-by-step approach to creating a mentally healthy workplace.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_separator color=”mulled_wine” style=”shadow”][vc_column_text]MobLab<\/a><\/span> trains, coaches and challenges changemakers and their organisations to build people power, deploy creative tactics, tackle root causes and adopt collaborative cultures. Why? Because these strategies are key to addressing the scale and complexity of the challenges we face today.<\/span><\/p>\n We are Feminist Leaders<\/a> looks at why self-care is a key to movement success and how organisations can create a culture of wellbeing.\u00a0 The Feminist Leadership Programme offered by them <\/a><\/u><\/span><\/span>brings home some lessons and takeaways from the discussion.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text]\n\t\t\t\n
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\nemotional and psycho-social \u2018space to speak\u2019, which is often missing.[\/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UuNVOGBnvYw”][vc_separator color=”mulled_wine” style=”shadow”][vc_column_text]External resources<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n