Facilitated By: Soumya Palreddy & Dekila Chungyalpa

Audience: Those 18+ organizing, leading, and caretaking on the ground for justice

We are living in a time of extraordinary stress—national, local, relational, environmental, and personal. For those organizing, leading, and caretaking on the ground for justice, the work to transform extractive and exploitative systems can often feel depleting, isolating, and eventually lead to burn out.

Presented by the Compassion Collective (Loka Initiative, Palreddy-Lowe Learning Lab, Center for Healthy Minds, and YWCA Madison), this session led by Dekila Chungyalpa and Soumya Palreddy invites changemakers, organizers, and caregivers to explore why creating containers for deepening inner, community, and ecological resilience must be intentionally embedded into the fabric of our social movements.

Grounded in the Deep Resilience framework developed by the Loka Initiative, this session asserts that abolishing and subverting harmful institutions and structures requires us to build intentional and supportive containers that heal and nurture ourselves, our community, and our environments. The Deep Resilience framework promotes a different model for self care; one that replenishes our inner resources through community care and compassion practices and re-rooting our interconnectedness with the Earth.

In this session, participants will:

• Explore why approaching self care through the lens of caring for a community and re-establishing our connection with the Earth is essential to moving towards liberation. 

• Engage in a dialogue on how to create containers for care in their own lives, organizations, and communities.

• Directly experience 1-2 contemplative practices aimed at deepening inner, community, or planetary resilience. 

• Receive a resource kit with some curated practices, prompts, and tools to continue deepening resilience beyond the session.