There’s no place for burnout in a burning world
By Charlie Wood, Waging Nonviolence
Climate activists can start to build a stronger culture of care by taking burnout seriously and understanding its root causes.
Tag: burnout
An Activist’s Guide to Reclaiming, Restoring, and Redirecting Your Attention: Part 2
By Anna Ostermeier, Resilience.org
Environmental psychology offers practices we can build into our daily lives that manage and restore a precious mental resource we all have: ‘directed attention’.
The Four Levels: New Story Activism & Burnout
By Marie Goodwin, Transition US
I've learned first hand about what activism burn out feels like.
My Personal Burnout Audit
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
In the same spirit that George Monbiot publishes his 'Registry of Interests' showing who pays him to do what, I am going to attempt an honest evaluation... of how I manage balance and burnout in my own life.
On Pretending That What’s Happening Isn’t Actually Happening
By Adrian Ayres Fisher, Ecological Gardening
In December I found myself sliding into a state of extreme unwillingness to take on new projects, to continue work on those in hand, to write, or do much of anything else, really, at work or at home.
How Can We Keep from Burning Out?
By Sophy Banks, Transition Culture
How is it possible that in a movement that’s all about stopping the planet from burning out, we often make a culture where we burn ourselves out instead?
Sophy Banks on the power of not doing stuff
By Rob Hopkins, Transition Culture
But in this, our final post for the month before we sign off for August (during which very little will happen on this site, as we put theory into practice), Sophy (busily doing nothing, above), one of the key developers of the Inner Transition approach and co-creator of the Transition Training, reflects on whether it's just as important to not do stuff.