
RESOURCES
This page is a work in progress. Here you will find resources related to healing justice, engaged spirituality, sustainability, trauma care, self care, community care, and related topics. There is a fair bit of overlap among the categories - some entries could fit multiple places - so please take some time to browse!
Please email your suggested resources to us at: sustainingthesoul99@gmail.com
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Sustaining the Soul of Activism - workshops & retreats by OneLife Institute
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Sustainable Activism & Avoiding Burnout (PDF handout)
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BOLD - Black Organizing for Leadership & Dignity
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Healing Justice
Sustainable Activism / Burnout
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Engaged Spirituality / Spiritually-Rooted Activism
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Center for Contemplative Mind in Society - Compendium of a wide variety of spiritual practices
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Introduction to Insight Meditation & Metta Meditation - Courtesy of Spirit Rock Meditation Center
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Spiritual Practices
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Activist Trauma Support - Collection of resource links & PDF info sheets
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Activist Trauma & Recovery (PDF handout)
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TRACC - Trauma Response & Crisis Care for Movements
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Trauma Resources
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OneLife Institute - Serving at the intersection of healing, spirituality, and social action
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Healing By Choice - Detroit-based collective of WOC healers & transformative justice practitioners
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BEAM - Black Emotional & Mental Health
Self Care / Community Care
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Healing Justice: Holistic Self-Care for Change Makers - Loretta Pyles (2018)
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Sustaining Spirit: Self-care for Social Justice - Naomi Ortiz (2018)
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Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Spirit-Based Change - Sherri Mitchell (2018)
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The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century - Grace Lee Boggs (2011)
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Hope & Healing in Urban Education - Shawn Ginwright (2016)
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Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation - Rev angel Kyodo williams, Lama Rod Owens, Jasmine Syedullah (2016)
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The Way of Tenderness: Awakening Through Race, Sexuality & Gender - Zenju Earthlyn Manuel (2015)
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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds - adrienne maree brown (2017)
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Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm - Kazu Haga (2020)
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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem (2017)
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The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind & Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel Van Der Kolk (2014)
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Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism & Mothering - Rosemarie Freeney Harding & Rachel Harding (2015)
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Light in the Dark / Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality - Gloria E. Anzaldua, edited by Analouise Keating (2015)
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The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear - William J. Barber III (2016)
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The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation - Fania Davis (2019)
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Justice as Healing - Indigenous Ways: Writings on Community Peacemaking and Restorative Justice from the Native Law Centre - Wanda D. McCaslin, editor (2005)
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The Womanist Idea - Layli Maparyan (2012)
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The Spiritual Activist: Practices to Transform Your Life, Your Work & Your World - Claudia Horwitz (2002)
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Real World Mindfulness for Beginners - Brenda Salgado, editor (2016)