Self and Collective Care
Wild Geese
Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Resources
Explore a diverse array of resources dedicated to promoting self and collective care. Dive into tools designed to enhance your well-being on both personal and communal levels. From techniques to manage stress and foster mindfulness to strategies for building strong, supportive communities, this resource collection offers materials for both self and collective care. Empower yourself with knowledge and practices that prioritise mental, emotional, and physical health, and discover ways to contribute to a more caring and interconnected world. Whether you’re seeking individual rejuvenation or looking to make a positive impact on a larger scale, these resources provide valuable insights and support for cultivating holistic well-being.
Self care and self defense manual
Developed by CREA this self-help manual from 2008 will guide you through a series of practical exercises that facilitate self-exploration of your identity, relationships and positionality. It invites you to embark on a journey towards liberation. If you like to work on your own, this might be something for you. Grab your pen and be ready for the ride!
Hell Yeah Self Care
A very cool zine by Meg-John Barker unpacks the meaning of self-care in this chronic poly-crisis. How to meet your basic needs? How to cut down self-cruelty? How to incorporate self-care in your daily routine? The zine offers easy to implement suggestions. Plus extraordinary drawings!
Frida Happiness Manifesto
The Manifesto by the cutting edge FRIDA The Young Feminist Fund is a collection of beatiful graphics with powerful messages that will support you in defining your own happiness recipe. Check out the wisdom of young feminists and learn from it.
CBSR Web Spread
These reflections on creating care and sustaining well-being from queer organizing from south and southeast Asia offers insights on activists culture and underlying deep systems, states the need to unlearn, reflect and heal, as well as sketches ways forward. It offers concrete tips for you to explore like deep listening, ancient healing technique called Jin Shin Jyu or visioning.
Sustainable Activism and Care
This booklet by Amnesty International offers concise basics on the importance of self-care supported by prompts for reflection and the tool to elaborate your self-care plan.
Resist by Flourishing
This efficient booklet is rich in content and full of useful suggestions that can support you in navigating your own understanding of regenerative activism. It lists concrete tools for reflection and action.
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare”
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Get in Touch
Women’s Fund Armenia
info@womenfundarmenia.org
Women’s Fund in Georgia
info@womenfundgeorgia.org
FemFund Poland
kontakt@femfund.pl
