Currently, the world is under an ample amount of stress due to the global pandemic. Staying inside and practicing social distancing can cause some people to not only feel stress, but also anxiety, loneliness and depression. Essentially, self-care can be any activity that refreshes your mind and body, and it is meant to add joy and fun to life. Practicing self-care is important for promoting individual growth, but it also improves the way we interact and connect with others. Regularly engaging in self-care promotes healthier relationships with family members, partners, friends, co-workers, and is especially important for those in caregiving roles.

This session will draw on restorative circle approaches.

Objectives:

1) Learn models for inter and intrapersonal impact

2) Identify mechanisms for self-care and resilience

3) Distinguish between burnout & compassion fatigue

About the facilitators:

Karen Bortvedt Estrada (she/her) works full time as Relationship Manager for an international development organization and also leads workshops on depolarization. Through both her personal and professional experiences, she has seen the power of authenticity, vulnerability, and self-healing to transform family and community systems locally and overseas. Karen is passionate about holding space to humanize, hear, and heal.

Sal Corbin offers training in Active Bystander Intervention, Restorative Justice, Unarmed Civilian Protection and conflict mediation. He worked for 15 years in academia as a Psychology Professor before transitioning to nonprofit work. He has done Workforce Development training and program management and is a Training Coordinator for the Maryland Harm Reduction Institute. His vision is to help others build and maintain healthy relationships, with conflict transformation as the primary focus. His extensive background in leadership facilitation supports his efforts to keep showing up and sharing.

This training is brought to Indian audience by Arts4Change International in collaboration with Wild Strawberry, India and DC Peace Team, USA as a pre-cursor to the upcoming Arts4Change Festival.

Arts4Change International believes in Arts serving as a force for social change in individuals, organisations, and communities. Its vision is to leverage the power of creativity and storytelling to address the world's greatest problems.

DC Peace Team empowers ordinary civilians to increasingly serve their communities particularly as nonviolent peacekeepers, and by extension as peacemakers and peacebuilders. The DC Peace Team lives this mission by: deploying unarmed civilian protection and accompaniment units, providing training in various nonviolent skills, and facilitating dialogues and restorative justice approaches.