Caring for the Collective: Journal As Altar for Trauma Workers, Healers, Helpers & Caregivers
If you are exposed to trauma, injustice and crisis in your work, community, and/or familial roles, you may be feeling the weight of vicarious trauma.
…and the Caring for the Collective workshop is here for you. Vicarious trauma is the ongoing process of change in your wellbeing and perspective over time that results from the continuous witnessing of other people's suffering, trauma, and unmet needs. It is a normal response to walking alongside people experiencing harm, crisis, disaster. And! There’s a lot we can do about it. This workshop embraces the idea that a creative journaling practice can help us sort through vicarious trauma, light our paths, connect to the collective, and equip ourselves with resources to stay afloat.
If you are exposed to trauma, injustice and crisis in your work, community, and/or familial roles, you may be feeling the weight of vicarious trauma.
…and the Caring for the Collective workshop is here for you. Vicarious trauma is the ongoing process of change in your wellbeing and perspective over time that results from the continuous witnessing of other people's suffering, trauma, and unmet needs. It is a normal response to walking alongside people experiencing harm, crisis, disaster. And! There’s a lot we can do about it. This workshop embraces the idea that a creative journaling practice can help us sort through vicarious trauma, light our paths, connect to the collective, and equip ourselves with resources to stay afloat.
If you are exposed to trauma, injustice and crisis in your work, community, and/or familial roles, you may be feeling the weight of vicarious trauma.
…and the Caring for the Collective workshop is here for you. Vicarious trauma is the ongoing process of change in your wellbeing and perspective over time that results from the continuous witnessing of other people's suffering, trauma, and unmet needs. It is a normal response to walking alongside people experiencing harm, crisis, disaster. And! There’s a lot we can do about it. This workshop embraces the idea that a creative journaling practice can help us sort through vicarious trauma, light our paths, connect to the collective, and equip ourselves with resources to stay afloat.
Your purchase includes:
FIRST 20 TO PURCHASE WILL RECEIVE A BONUS PAPERCRAFT MINI KIT IN THE MAIL!
a link to the Caring for the Collective workshop video (1 hour and 20 minutes long, with captions), available to you for the foreseeable future
printable Caring for the Collective Guidebook, with rituals, considerations, and journaling prompts
printable Writing Prompts, with all of the writing prompts from the workshop video
printable , custom art page for cutting and pasting
all content gathered in one online home, the class notion page
Workshop covers how to:
Deepen your journaling practice as a form of mindful self care
Engage with art techniques & journal prompts
Consider collective care approaches for your well-being
Explore the gifts of your work while holding space for what's hard, through your journaling practice
Build a sustainable, well lit path for yourself that aligns with your values & elevates joy + Identify anchor points that ground you when you are impacted by trauma & injustice + Be cared for by a former
This workshop is for any of you who are consistently exposed to trauma, injustice, and toxic stress in your professional, community or familial roles, and are interested in enhancing your journaling practices as a form of self and collective care.
🎀 This workshop is different than the “Journaling Practices for Navigating Grief and Trauma” workshop, as it is specifically designed for people exposed to vicarious trauma in their work or other roles (whereas the other workshop is for direct survivors of trauma and loss).
We are currently living through increasingly difficult times with oppression and violence live streaming from our phones. As I write this, students on college campuses across the US face brutal police suppression of their protest against the genocide in Gaza, their own college administrations turning on them. Close to 40,000 Palestinians have been murdered by the Israeli military in 6 months, including close to 15,000 children - and they show no signs of stopping. Families of Israeli hostages are demanding a ceasefire; globally the calls for ceasefire are loud and clear. All of this is trauma. Some aren’t paying attention at all. Those of us who are, are hurting. Some of us have lost loved ones in both Israel and Gaza, and are directly impacted. For those of us who have long been exposed to vicarious trauma in our work, this exposure compounds what we were already carrying.
I hope this workshop offers a bit of balm, helping you to build creative practices that can hold the sorrows of this world with the joys. Ceasefire now. Free Palestine. Hostages home. Peace.
>> Upon purchase, you will receive a download link that’s good for 24 hours. You will need to download the pdf, which contains the link to the workshop Notion page, where you’ll find the video and all other materials. If you don’t access the link during 24 hours, it will be re-sent when you click through again. Once you download the PDF with link, you can click through to the Notion page and bookmark it for future use, or just save the PDF. Please do not share the video and/or links with others. If you know someone who would benefit from this content but can’t afford to pay, please ask them to contact me directly.
