Self Care for Community Organizing

Caring for ourselves is vital to sustaining our movements. Join us to explore strategies that centre your well-being while staying rooted in collective action. Through group discussions, journaling prompts, and guided yoga practices, you'll learn how to balance the demands of organizing, avoid burnout, and maintain the resilience needed for long-term movement-building.

This workshop will cover:

• The pillars of creating a self care habit
• Methods to balance mental, physical, and spiritual well-being
• Grounding ways to practice self care with cultural appreciation
  
  
  

Workshop Lead: Irene Lo (she/her) applies her communications, public relations, and social media expertise to be a part of meaningful change at Women Transforming Cities. Her work history includes municipal governments and women of colour wellness summits. She has a B.A. in English Literature and Classical Studies from UBC and a Public Relations certificate from SFU. Her path as a yoga student and teacher was what led her into the online space of anti-racist and intersectional feminist movements. As she learned from Indigenous, Black, and women of colour on social issues related to health equity and cultural respect, she became motivated to use her communication skills to serve women and non-binary people of colour. Born in Taiwan, she is of Han/Hakka ancestry. She lives and works on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded land of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations.

Women Transforming Cities (WTC) aims to radically shift social, economic, and political power to equity-deserving groups to reshape who cities are built by and for so that communities’ needs are met and everyone can belong, participate, and thrive. We do this with an intersectional feminist lens through civic literacy and education, research, advocacy and collaboration.

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Accessibility: The event will take place virtually on Zoom. It will be in English with live closed captioning. If you have any other requests that will support your participation, please let us know by emailing us at alexa@womentransformingcities.org.

We acknowledge that the event will take place virtually on the stolen, unceded ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation).