{"data":{"ID":243,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351821760,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Self-Care for Selfless Educators & Advocates in the Movement","Handle":"Sasha_Fierce_and_Self-Care_for_Social_Justice","ShortDescription":"Self-care is often an afterthought for educators, social justice activists, and ed reform advocates.  This interactive workshop will explore the responsibility we have to connect self-care with leading change; how pop culture, race and gender shape our ideas about personal sustainability; and how to support each other in allyship.","Description":"Literary activist Audre Lorde once declared, \u201cCaring for myself is not self-indulgence.  It is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.\u201d Self-care is often an afterthought for social justice activists.  The same is true in the movement for education reform.  Every child and their family deserve equitable opportunities to learn and live well, and educators and advocates work tirelessly in service of that belief.  No question: it\u2019s in our nature to nurture.  At home, at work, in the classroom and in our communities, we selflessly take care of everyone else before ourselves\u2014if at all.  But it is critical to remember that sustaining this depth of leadership requires sustaining ourselves. \r\n\r\nIn a society that defines strength by one\u2019s capacity to survive, the broad messages we receive about caring for ourselves are to toughen up through overwhelming circumstances and that it is only when we suffer the inevitable burn out that we should make time for self-care.  This interactive workshop will explore the responsibility we have to connect self-care with leading change.  Participants will learn:\r\n\r\n\u2022\thow pop culture, race, and gender shape our ideas about when, how and why to care for ourselves\r\n\u2022\thow to develop unapologetically selfish, specific approaches to personal sustainability; and\r\n\u2022\thow to support each other through our intersecting journeys.","Link":[],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Interactive workshop","Presenter":["Michaela Pommells","Reagen Price"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Coalition for Racial Justice"],"PresenterEmail":["Michaela@corajus.com","reagen@corajus.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":14,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}}