February/March 2021

Programs, talks, or trainings:

• Bystander intervention training
• Self defense
• Anxiety management
• Sobriety support
• Conflict resolution
• Hospital visitation (something hopefully never needed)
• healthcare resources and help signing up for certain programs; medicaid, snap and help just navigating the resources that are daunting.
• CBT and DBT groups.

Workshops or sessions:

• Meditation
• Community Reiki Share
• Zine-making
• Journaling
• Game night, a space where people can spend time with their community while also having some fun. (specifically for sobriety and those who feel uncomfortable around friends or family without being triggered).

Support groups:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• COVID recovery
• Burnout
• Sobriety
• Bipolar, Personality and Schizoaffective disorders.

Tools we can use:

• Zoom
• Outdoor activity when weather improves
• The space at St. Jacobus
• Closed or open groups within Slack
• Buddy system
• Check in calls

Activities

• walk and talks
• bike rides

Resources:

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown

Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook by Jovida Ross & Weyam Ghadbian

The People’s School of Conflict