We'll practice both community and self care as we work through what burnout 'prevention & recovery' looks like as a radical act, practicing non-violent within so it can ripple out to the world.
Open to all, on camera or off. In the spirit of full transparency, I’ll also share a little about my new Burnout Recovery Hub at the very end.
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Free Workshop
What helps us heal from burnout?
Is burnout itself a kind of medicine?
How can we help our burnout experiences of today become a seed of hope for the future?
Tuesday 28th October
3-4pm UK time
(for folks outside of the UK, please be aware of a time zone change the weekend before the date of this workshop)
About Jo
Hi, I’m Jo Musker-Sherwood (she/her); activist, 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.