Join Us for Two Upcoming Events!

Join IDA for our second Sustainable Activism Teleseminar, “Beating Burnout: Sustaining Ourselves to Sustain Our Movements,” with activists Dallas Rising and Paul Gorski and win free tickets to our first Activist Healing Retreat featuring “The 30 Day Vegan” author Colleen Patrick-Goudreau! Both events are great opportunities to practice self-care and bolster our animal rights movement, which are the focus of our Sustainable Activism Campaign: www.idausa.org/SustainableActivism. See event details below.

“Beating Burnout: Sustaining Ourselves to Sustain Our Movements” Teleseminar for Activists (Online or by phone, on Tuesday, June 9)

Have stress or anxiety related to your animal rights, environmental, racial justice, or other activism resulted in such severe impacts on your emotional or physical health that you have wondered whether you needed to walk away from your activist work, at least temporarily? If so, you might be like the 50 to 60% of activists who have experienced activist burnout—a condition some people have argued is the most formidable barrier to the success of social justice movements.

This Sustainable Activism Teleseminar will address the most common causes, symptoms, and consequences of burnout, both to individual activists and to the movements in which they participate. Participants will receive strategies for self-care and community-care—strategies that can bolster our effectiveness as activists and help sustain our movements for social justice.

Facilitators Dallas Rising, long-time animal rights activist with experience in organizing, direct action, and coaching activists, and Paul Gorski, seasoned activist and professor of social justice and human rights who studies social justice activist burnout and its impact on social justice movements for the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being at George Mason University are both members of IDA’s Council of Sustainable Activism.

This free teleseminar is part of IDA’s Sustainable Activism Campaign, offering emotional support and self-care tools for animal activists. For teleseminar questions, contact Lisa Levinson at lisa@idausa.org.

What: Sustainable Activism Teleseminar on “Beating Burnout: Sustaining Ourselves to Sustain Our Movements”
When: Tuesday, June 9, 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. PST
Registration Link: http://myaccount.maestroconference.com/conference/register/Y2Q953TDDISE3VMU

Instructors:

Paul Gorski is an activist, educator, and author who teaches in the Social Justice and Human Rights program at George Mason University. His courses include Poverty, Wealth, and Inequality; Social Justice Consciousness and Personal Transformation; and Animal Rights. He is also a research fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being. His writing increasingly focuses on activist burnout, and particularly the potential role of mindfulness practices in alleviating activist burnout. You can reach him at gorski@edchange.org or http://paulgorski.efoliomn.com.

As a vegan and animal liberation activist for nearly two decades, Dallas Rising has sustained her personal commitment to activism over time. She ran a coaching and support company for animal activists and directed a statewide dog rescue. She now serves as the Executive Director for the country’s oldest grass-roots animal rights non-profit, the Animal Rights Coalition. She is curious about the role trauma plays in activists’ lives and has published essays on the psychology of refusing to acknowledge systemic animal cruelty, humane farming as it relates to sexual violence, and interpersonal abuse within our movement. She lives and practices martial arts in Minneapolis with her husband and their four boys, two rescued dogs, and two rescued cats. Dallas can be reached at dallasrising@gmail.com.

Activist Healing Retreat (Pacific Palisades, Saturday, June 13)

WIN A FREE TICKET TO IDA’S FIRST ACTIVIST HEALING RETREAT!

Join us this Saturday, June 13th for our very first Activist Healing Retreat featuring “The 30-Day Vegan Challenge” author Colleen Patrick Goudreau! Part of our Sustainable Activism Campaign, this retreat offers communication strategies to resolve conflicts and strengthen the animal rights movement.

As animal activists, it’s important to support each other and acknowledge that we too are sentient animals on a very important and often difficult journey. We are all worthy of support and self-care to sustain a healthy and motivated animal rights community. That’s why we’re calling all compassionate activists to gather for this unique opportunity to learn and heal!

This retreat is dedicated to Los Angeles activist Cindy Stein, who tragically took her own life on May 20, 2015. Vegan refreshments will be served.

What: Activist Healing Retreat
When: Saturday, June 13, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Where: Temescal Gateway Park, Classrooms #1-3, 15601 W. Sunset Blvd., Pacific Palisades, CA 90272

Bring: bag vegan lunch, water bottle, hat, sunscreen, comfortable clothes
Cost: $35 online registration, $40 door price, $7 parking fee
Registration Link: www.idausa.org/retreats
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/373091662892140/

In the spirit of Sustainable Activism, tell us in 50 words or less by sending your submission in an email to sustainableactivism@idausa.org, how you practice self-care for your chance to WIN one of 5 FREE TICKETS! Winners will be selected by our Sustainable Activism Campaign Director and notified by email. As another perk, you will be invited to submit your self-care practice as one of our weekly Sustainable Activism Tips!

Don’t want to risk missing out? Purchase your ticket now while they last: www.idausa.org/retreats

For event information, please contact Lisa Levinson at lisa@idausa.org.
Terms & Conditions:

1. The promoter is In Defense of Animals whose registered office is at 3010 Kerner Boulevard, San Rafael, CA , 94901.

2. Employees of In Defense of Animals or their family members or anyone else connected in any way with the competition or helping to set up the competition shall not be permitted to enter the competition.

3. There is no entry fee and no purchase necessary to enter this competition.

4. Route to entry for the competition is via email submission to sustainableactivism@idausa.org

5. Closing date for entry will be June 10th, 2015. After this date the no further entries to the competition will be permitted.

6. No responsibility can be accepted for entries not received for whatever reason.

7. The rules of the competition and the prize for each winner are as follows: Winner must be over 18 and a US resident. Travel from the winner’s location to the retreat is not included. The prize includes ONE of 5 free passes to the Animal Activist Healing retreat on Saturday, June 13, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m at Temescal Gateway Park, Classrooms #1-3, 15601 W. Sunset Blvd, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272.

8. In Defense of Animals reserves the right to cancel or amend the competition and these terms and conditions without notice. Any changes to the competition will be notified to entrants as soon as possible by the promoter.

9. No cash alternative to the prizes will be offered. The prizes are not transferable.

10. Winners will be chosen by our In Defense of Animals Sustainable Activism Campaign Director on June 10, 2015.