Rest in Crisis & Change
A free 90-min virtual workshop exploring rest as a practice of liberation from personal and political unrest
Thursday, February 8th, 2024
9-10:30am PT / 12-1:30pm ET
We highly recommend joining live if you can.
A replay link will be shared with registrants within 48 hours.
“In ‘hurrying up’ all the time, we often lose sight of the abundance of resources that might help us meet today’s most challenging crises. We rush through into the same patterns we are used to.
Of course, there isn’t a single way to respond to crisis; there is no universally correct way. However the call to slow down works to bring us face to face with the invisible, the hidden, the unremarked, the yet-to-be-resolved.
Sometimes, what is the appropriate thing to do is not the effective thing to do.”
— Báyò Akómoláfé PhD
Thanks to smartphones and social media, oppressed peoples from around the world can share our stories, connect our struggles, and stand in solidarity.
We are living in an unprecedented time in history.
This has led many organizers, academics, cultural workers, healers, and everyday people to agree:
this is the biggest mass mobilization of decolonization we’ve yet to experience in our lifetime.
For those of us who’ve been longing for collective liberation, this is surely an exciting moment. But it’s also a devastating one.
Because everywhere we look, from the land to the people and all the living beings on this planet, there is immense suffering, loss, and grief that needs tending to.
So the question is:
“How can we resource ourselves well, recognizing that there will be big transformative energies to reckon with and hold, individually and collectively, in the coming days, months, and years?”
To create something different than what we’ve survived, we will need new ways of relating to ourselves, each other, and the living world around us.
We need to rely on more than just our minds. We need to enlist the wisdom of and creative potential within our bodies, hearts, and spirits.
We need rest.
Join me for a free 90-min virtual workshop where we will explore rest as a practice of liberation from personal and political unrest
Register for the Replay!
In this free 90-min virtual workshop, we will:
Unpack the hidden creative potential in the etymology of “crisis”
Destabilize and decenter Western notions of “peace” that affect how we understand rest while perpetuating violence on people and the planet
Come into right relationship with rest as a liberatory practice for personal and political unrest