🌟 Resources for Activist Resilience and Emotional Support
Stay grounded, connected, and well while working for change
A curated list of organizations, collectives, and projects that support progressive activists in managing burnout, grief, anger, frustration, and fatigue.
These resources vary widely—some offer immediate tools or community events, while others provide deeper learning, creative expression, or healing practices. A few focus on specific communities, such as BIPOC organizers, LGBTQ+ folks, or climate justice movements.
Not every resource will fit every person, but this list invites you to explore what helps you stay steady, connected, and inspired.
Peer-led mental health support and political education for activists, especially LGBTQ+ and disabled folks. Offers online workshops, toolkits, and a free zine library.
AORTA (Anti-Oppression Resource and Training Alliance)
Offers practical tools for collective care, trauma response, and emotional capacity in activist groups. Includes downloadable guides and peer learning materials.
Builds resilient organizing teams through political education, emotional processing, and conflict transformation. Focused on healing collective wounds.
The Center for Story-Based Strategy
Helps activists reclaim narratives and emotions through storytelling. Offers workshops and strategy tools to build collective power.
Provides ecological justice training, healing-centered organizing methods, and practices for building long-term resilience in movements.
A cultural project that reframes rest as resistance, especially for Black communities. Shares meditations, reflections, and liberatory rest practices.
Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective
A founding voice of the Healing Justice movement. Offers education on trauma recovery, collective care, and healing rooted in Black Southern traditions.
Supports climate activists through grief circles, online dialogues, and resources addressing climate anxiety and emotional overwhelm.
Counselors for Social Justice (CSJ)
A national network of mental health professionals promoting equity, trauma-informed care, and community-based healing.
A public health–oriented nonprofit advancing collective wellbeing through equity, design, and community health. Less focused on direct activist support.
Offers free therapy for BIPOC residents of Washington. Prioritizes those facing financial or access barriers, including organizers and advocates.
A Seattle-based music and healing collective that uses group singing to foster connection, grief support, and resilience in movement spaces.
A Washington-based climate justice coalition of BIPOC-led organizations working at the intersection of community health, equity, and systemic change.
Founded by Valarie Kaur, this project promotes spiritual courage and radical love in justice movements. Offers videos, meditations, and leadership tools.
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
Provides emotional and spiritual support for white activists committed to racial justice. Includes reflection tools and practices for inner and group resilience.
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🕊️ Conflict Resolution & Community Healing
Tools and support for navigating inner tension, interpersonal friction, and group conflict
📚 Books to Help Us Bridge Divides and Resolve Conflict (coming soon)
Related Issues to Explore
Burnout in Activism: Chronic stress, overwork, and emotional fatigue that can lead to withdrawal or disengagement. These resources offer prevention and recovery strategies.
Collective Trauma & Healing: Emotional and psychological wounds shared by communities facing injustice or violence. Many organizations here address these wounds collectively.
Rest as Resistance: A growing movement—especially in BIPOC spaces—that frames rest and healing as political acts against systems of extraction and oppression.
Mental Health Justice: Supports mental health approaches that are accessible, culturally grounded, and community-centered—not just individual therapy.
Cultural Organizing: Draws on storytelling, music, and ritual to connect emotional truth with movement work. Supports resilience through creativity and expression.
Spiritual and Emotional Resilience in Movements: Taps into meditation, faith, reflection, or ritual to sustain hope and prevent burnout.