Understanding dependencies
Reflection questions to help you understand your dependencies.
Developing somatic bandwidth
Cultivating responsiveness to create more equitable systems.
Managing the flight response
Tips to shift from maladaptive to adaptive flight response.
Returning to community to resolve conflicts
Practices to restore a community from an individual’s damaging behaviour.
Compassionate listening
Tips to cultivate deep listening.
Brief Resilience Scale
Assess your ability to bounce back.
Dealing with shame
A mindfulness exercise to deal with shame.
Healing communication
Four practices to communicate in ways that support trauma healing.
Practising body neutrality
Learn to practise body neutrality.
Respectful rejection letters
Craft a respectful rejection letter.
Mind mapping for grief
An exercise to work through the heaviness of grief.
Gentleness through grief
Learn to be gentle with yourself through grief.
Positive introductions
Allowing people to get to know your best self.
Nurture your compassion roots
A reflective journaling practice to root yourself in compassion.
Creating ripples
Spreading ripples of love, hope, and happiness.
Arm linking
A vulnerability exercise to build a sense of connection and shared humanity.
Mitigating aftershock for activists
Tips for activists to avoid or mitigate aftershock.
Hard, Heart, Main, Mind, Organisations
Cultivating presence
Cultivating presence through deep listening and inquiry without imposition.
The wheel of awareness
A time-in practice to integrate consciousness.
Unlimited empathy
A group activity to foster empathy and deepen the bonds.
Crossing the line
A deep activity to build diversity awareness within a group.
Appreciation shower
A deep activity to cultivate gratitude and touch people’s hearts.
Self-compassion for your inner child
A creative activity to boost self-compassion.
The river of life
Exploring the flow that connects our changemaker journey.
Truth mandala
A ritual to honour our pain for the world so as to heal from it.
Transforming conflict
Using the heart to transform conflict into an opportunity.
Meeting your shadow
A creative activity to embrace your shadow.
Dealing with others’ suffering
A tonglen practice to cultivate compassion.
36 Qs for increasing closeness
A deeply connecting practice to increase closeness with others.
Releasing energy
Creating a shield to protect you from negative energy.
Heart-breathing meditation
A breathing technique to fill your heart with compassion.
Gratitude walk
A trust-based exercise to appreciate the fullness of life.
7 practices for peace
A seven-day programme to transform you into a peacemaker.