Resilience in Activism

Objectives

1. To share practices of community care and resilience that strengthen collective support and the capacity to face challenges together.
2. To enhance emotional resilience and promote self-care practices among young activists, change-makers, and those who accompany processes of social transformation.
3. To introduce and share well-being, resilience, and self-regulation methods, based on expressive arts, the Work That Reconnects (WTR), and practices inspired by the Active Hope framework.
4. To promote transnational support networks where youth workers and activists can exchange practices of care, solidarity, and long-term sustainability.
5. To share tools for nervous system regulation, expressive arts, co-regulation, participatory methodologies, and embodied approaches to “living learning.”
6. To promote forms of activism that are caring, restorative, and respectful of rest, boundaries, and self-care.
7. To encourage mutual learning by highlighting different geopolitical realities and forging a community network that promotes freedom of expression, universal rights, and the health of the ecosystems we inhabit.