✹ A Collective-Care Guide: Building Self-Care and Sustainability into Community Work
in 2023, alongside licensed therapists SANDRA OLARTE-HAYES AND MANUEL CANTU, future front facilitated ITS FIRST-EVER Collective-Care Club.
Monthly, a group of psychotherapists and community members in justice-based creative and/or cultural work gathered to explore their personal and professional relationships to collective-care, self-care and sustainability.
We explored important themes such as trauma and the body, how shame and trauma impact how we treat one another in conflict, personal and collective transformation and why so many social justice-focused spaces cause so much harm. This guide reflects back what the group learned.
KEEP READING FOR a step-by-step guide ON realigning your values, boundaries and frameworks toward EMBODIED self-care and collective-care within your community work.
WRITTEN BY TEXAS-BASED LICENSED THERAPISTS SANDRA OLARTE-HAYES AND MANUEL CANTU