This event is made possible through a collaboration of the Oakland Climate Action Coalition, the City of Oakland, The San Francisco Foundation, the Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, and the East Bay Community Foundation.
June 5-6 Oakland Leaders Self-Care and Resiliency Workshop
Transformational Resilience Program
The Oakland Climate Action Coalition, Pacific Institute, West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, City of Oakland, and Alameda County, in partnership with The Resource Innovation Group and Trauma Resource Institute, invite community leaders in Oakland to join us for the upcoming Leaders Self-Care and Resiliency Workshop.
Description of Workshop
This highly interactive workshop will help Oakland community leaders learn how to use simple self-care resilience skills to increase their capacity to cope with ongoing life, work-related, and societal stresses that will be made worse by climate change enhanced acute traumas such as natural disasters and chronic stresses such as rising food prices and food shortages due to drought in ways that enhance both personal and collective wellbeing. Although a special emphasis will be placed on building resilience for the direct and indirect adversities resulting from climate change, the skills learned in the workshop will enhance your capacity to care for yourself and remain resilient to all types of challenges.
Humans are hardwired to be resilient. The Leaders Self-Care and Resiliency Workshop will help people recognize and enhance their natural capacities for resilience and growth. When people know how to utilize simple self-care resilience building skills and tools, they increase their natural capacity to weather life’s storms in a calm and confident way and use adversity as an opportunity to envision and attain new possibilities.
Date & Time: 8:30am to 4:30pm on Thursday and Friday June 5-6
Location: Wendte Hall, First Unitarian Church, 685 14th St, Oakland, CA. See the church's website for more details on getting there.
Information About the Transformational Resilience Program: For information about TRIG’s Transformational Resilience Program and an overview of the Leaders Self-Care Workshop, see the program overview.
Workshop Agenda: A draft overview of the workshop agenda is available here.
Workshop Facilitators: Leaders in resiliency from around the US will be facilitating the workshop including: Merdice Ellis, Trauma Resource Institute; Martha Parra, Trauma Resource Institute, and Bob Doppelt, The Resource Innovation Group. For more information on the workshop facilitators, see this PDF with brief bios.
Payment: The cost is $45 (scholarships are available) and it includes lunch on the first day. All payments go toward workshop costs. If you would like to request a scholarship please indicate so in the registration form below. We would prefer that you mail a check to The Resource Innovation Group, P.O. Box 51182, Eugene, 97405. However, you can also submit the $45 payment via PayPal here.
Food and refreshments: We will provide lunch the first day as well as coffee, tea and fruit on both days.
Cancelations and Refunds: Space at the workshop is limited to 40 participants. Cancelations received two weeks or more prior the workshop will receive a refund less $10 handling fee. No refund will be possible for cancelations made within two weeks of the workshop.
Contact: If you have questions not answered here, contact Liz Veazey at: tr@trig-cli.org or 510-854-6437
Registration is now closed