**Minneapolis, Minnesota Activists** 

This Sunday, November 8 – Join us for Beating Burnout Workshop: Sustaining Ourselves While Sustaining Our Social Justice Movements

Have stress or anxiety related to your racial justice, economic justice, queer justice, animal rights, environmental justice, educational 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. In this workshop, we will discuss the most common causes, symptoms, and consequences of burnout, both to individual activists and to the movements in which they participate. We will also share strategies for self-care and community-care—strategies that can bolster our effectiveness as activists and help sustain our movements for social justice.

IDA invites you to join this free workshop and discussion for social justice activists facilitated by Dallas Rising, a long-time animal rights activist with experience in organizing, direct action, and coaching activists, and Paul Gorski, a long-time racial justice and economic justice activist and professor of social justice and human rights who has been studying social justice activist burnout and its impact on social justice movements for the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being at George Mason University.

What: Beating Burnout Workshop
When: Sunday, November 8, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Where: Minnehaha Free Space, 3747 Minnehaha Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55406

Facebook event page here.

For more information, contact Lisa Levinson at lisa@idausa.org or local organizer Paul Gorski at gorski@edchange.org.

This event is supported in part by a grant from the Pollination Project with additional support from In Defense of Animals’ Council of Sustainable Activism (CoSA) and the Center for the Advancement of Well-Being. CoSA is part of IDA’s Sustainable Activism Campaign, offering emotional support and self-care resources for animal activists.