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Reclaiming Radical Rest for Racial and Social Justice Workplaces
As we contend with the shock and awe tactics of the Trump Administration and the complacency of the political apparatus as a whole, racial and social justice workplaces need tools to sustain themselves and their work, without sacrificing one for the other.
The Reality
Jasbir Puar builds on Achille Mbembe's concept of "necropolitics," which examines how states and systems decide who is disposable, by introducing "the right to maim." Systems don't always destroy us outright; often, they debilitate us gradually. Burnout exemplifies this slow maiming: it manifests as autoimmune diseases, high blood pressure, and other chronic conditions. With burnout among workers reaching 66% in 2025, an all-time high, we must reimagine our relationship to these systems and build more sustainable workplaces.
What This Workshop Offers
Reclaiming Radical Rest is a transformative workshop that reframes rest as a collective political strategy rather than individual self-care. You'll move from systemic analysis to actionable intervention, understanding why rest feels impossible under current conditions, then building the tools and frameworks to make it possible anyway.
Rooted in evidence-based research and movement practices from Black and Indigenous resistance movements, this workshop offers both individual reset strategies and sustainable workplace frameworks that challenge martyrdom ideology endemic in our workplaces and build infrastructure to sustain our work long-term.
Who This Is For
This is for any workplace or movement space organizing for racial and social justice and liberation, whether in nonprofits, unions, mutual aid collectives, community organizations, or grassroots movements, schools and universities. For service-oriented roles facing burnout, compassion fatigue, and the trauma of fighting seemingly intractable systems of oppression.
What You'll Walk Away With
Systemic Understanding
Move beyond individual self-care to analyze how racism, classism, ableism, and sexism compound workplace stress—without bypassing the underlying power dynamics.
Practical Assessment Tools
Recognize early warning signs of burnout in yourself and colleagues before reaching crisis point.
Create a holistic rest strategic plan
Understand the types of rest and create a holistic plan with low and high-energy interventions
Map trauma and Interrupt Martyrdom and Overwork Ideology
How socialization drives martyrdom and overwork ideology in your body, behavior, family and communities
Immediate Techniques
Learn simple 2–5 minute micro-rest resets you can use in the workplace right away.
Movement Wisdom
Explore Black and Indigenous practices that sustained historic resistance movements.
Collective Strategy
Connect with peers facing similar challenges and gain access to an ongoing support network.
Organizational Analysis
Tools to evaluate and challenge workplace policies that fuel unsustainability.
Workshop Approach
This isn't wellness theater. Our facilitation is:
Systems-focused — We address organizational structures, not just individual coping
Power-conscious — We name how oppression compounds workplace stress
Trauma-informed — Led by facilitators who understand triggered states and complex trauma
Holistic — We honor people as whole humans beyond their productivity
Format & Time
This is a 2-part workshop and each workshop is 2.5 hours for a total of 5 hours.
Virtual delivery via Zoom
The workshop includes small group discussion, presentation, guided practice, and reflection time and a comprehensive resource guide.
Investment — Sliding Scale Pricing
We use sliding scale pricing because we believe transformative training shouldn't only be accessible to well-funded institutions. When larger organizations pay more, they directly subsidize access for grassroots groups doing essential work with minimal resources.
Under $100K budget: $700
$100K–$1M budget: $1,500
$1M–$5M budget: $2,500
$5M+ budget: $3,500
Choose honestly based on your organization's total operating budget. All rates cover up to 30 participants. Please email us if you plan to have more than 30 participants
Price includes preparation consultation, facilitation, and a comprehensive resource guide.
FAQ
Can we do this in-person?
Contact us to discuss in-person options and pricing.
What if we have more than 30 people?
We can accommodate larger groups. Reach out to discuss pricing for your team size.
Do I have to attend both sessions?
The series builds across all three sessions, so full participation creates the most transformative experience. If you miss a session, recordings will be available.
Is this only for nonprofit workers?
No. This is for any workplace organizing for racial and social justice and liberation, whether in nonprofits, unions, mutual aid collectives, community organizations, or grassroots movements.
Will I get a recording?
No, but you will receive a comprehensive resource guide.
What Participants Say
"I learned in a small group a way to encourage teamwork around rest: Often when taking a
day off we return to work with more work than when we left, but when we bring other team
members in for support, there can be less work when returning from time off."
—Dr. Anita Torrence, Therapist and Trainer, Department of Education
Tools for Workers Navigating Burnout Under Racial and Other Capitalisms
A 2-part series for workers without organizational Professional Development funding.
The Reality
Workers dedicated to social justice are burning out at unsustainable rates—95% of nonprofit leaders cite burnout as a concern in their organizations, often unaware of the conditions producing it.
Historically, those most subordinated by intersecting systems of capitalism—particularly working-class and undereducated workers, Black and Indigenous workers, disabled workers, trans workers, and those at multiple intersections—are overworked, under-resourced, and die earlier.
The system isn't sustainable for anyone, but it has convinced us that overworking is the only path to keeping our lights on personally and to building a liberated future.
What This Series Offers
This isn't another training telling you to "practice self-care" while you labor in conditions designed to extract everything from you. This is a 3-part series for workers organizing against intersecting capitalisms and toward socially liberated futures—workers who are exhausted and afraid of the health implications, who know systemic problems require systemic solutions.
Together, we'll build analysis, assess our actual conditions, and create collective strategies for sustaining ourselves within and against the systems trying to consume us.
Who This Is For
Workers organizing for social justice and liberation who are:
Exhausted and concerned about the health implications
Tired of being told to practice self-care in unsustainable conditions
Ready to move beyond individual solutions to collective strategy
Committed to understanding the systemic roots of burnout
This series centers the experiences of working-class, Black, Indigenous, disabled, trans workers, and those at multiple intersections who bear the heaviest burden of capitalist extraction.
What You'll Walk Away With
Systemic Analysis
Understand why rest feels impossible through an exploration of intersecting capitalisms and how they structure workplace extraction.
Critical Consciousness
Examine your indoctrination into overwork culture through familial, media, and social systems—and how these messages differ based on your social locations.
Burnout Assessment
Understand burnout's physical and psychological impacts, and assess your own relationship to burnout with practical tools.
Holistic Wellness Framework
Explore your relationship to wellness beyond individualized self-care narratives that ignore structural barriers.
Rest Audits
Evaluate both organizational conditions and personal practices to identify what's actually within your control to change.
Series Format and Date
2 sessions, 5 hours
Virtual delivery via Zoom
Sessions include presentation, small group discussion, guided reflection, and practical exercises.
April 3rd 12-2:30pm EST
April 17th 12-2:30pm EST
Investment
Individual workers: $100 for the full 2-part series
Can't afford any of these rates? Email us. We hold spots specifically for workers who need full scholarships.
FAQ
Do I have to attend both sessions?
The series builds across all three sessions, so full participation creates the most transformative experience. If you miss a session, recordings will be available.
Is this only for nonprofit workers?
No. This is for any worker organizing for social justice and liberation, whether in nonprofits, unions, mutual aid collectives, community organizations, or grassroots movements.
I'm dealing with severe burnout. Is this the right fit?
This series is designed to meet you where you are. We create a trauma-informed space that acknowledges the reality of your exhaustion while building toward sustainable strategies.
Will I get a recording?
No, but you will receive a comprehensive resource guide.
What's your refund policy?
Full refund if you cancel before the first session; 50% refund after the first session.