A workshop for individual campaigners, organizers, and movement leaders. Through somatic practice, nervous system regulation, and a healing justice framework, you leave with a personal resilience strategy designed for the actual pace of your campaign cycle, so you can stay in the work without the work taking you out of it. Offered periodically throughout the year.
You already know.
You are not failing at sustainability. You are working inside a system that does not have it built in. Campaigns are built for momentum. They are not always built to protect you. This workshop is for the part of you that wants to keep doing this work, and is starting to wonder if you can.
Somatic and nervous system practices you can run before a press call, in the middle of a tense conversation, or on the way back to your desk. The urgency stops accumulating in your shoulders, your jaw, your sleep. You learn to recognize the difference between adrenaline and clarity.
A guided personal planning exercise: your non-negotiables (sleep, food, movement, connection), the high-pressure moments you can already see coming, and the people in your life who can hold you through them. A real plan. Not a vision board.
The healing justice framework as a working tool, not a slogan. How taking care of yourself strengthens the campaign. Why burnout is structural, not personal. How to know what you can change as an individual and what requires collective action, including organizing your workplace if it isn't already.
A real map of the people, practices, and rhythms that hold you through the intensity. Built around the cycle you are running, not the slow season you don't get.
You leave with a written, personalized resilience strategy. But more than the document:
This is not about getting through. It is about doing the work in a way that you can keep doing it, on terms that are yours.
Three threads run through the workshop. Each one is a working practice, not a concept to learn.
Somatic and breath-based tools you can use anywhere. Built for campaigners who do not have the option to slow the work down.
The understanding that taking care of yourself is part of the work. Burnout is structural. Care is collective. Your survival is strategic.
A real wellness plan grounded in your actual cycle, your actual life, and the actual people who can hold you through it.
In 2016, I was knocking on doors and managing volunteers in Philadelphia, fully immersed in the intensity of electoral work. I know what it means to pour everything you have into a campaign and come out the other side depleted, win or lose.
I went on to lead communications for electoral and advocacy campaigns, navigating the relentless pace of multiple primaries and election cycles across states, often simultaneously. Alongside that, I served as a trainer with Women Run Campaigns, supporting hundreds of women in gaining the skills and experience needed to run effective, winning campaigns.
Over time, each campaign became a real-time practice in understanding stress, capacity, and what it actually takes to stay grounded amid constant urgency. My work has spanned races across the Mid-Atlantic and the Midwest, giving me a deep, on-the-ground understanding of the demands, intensity, and complexity of campaign life.
Through those experiences, I developed practical approaches to working with stress, building sustainable resilience, and staying present in demanding environments. Not in theory. In real time, under pressure.
Today, I bring that lived experience into my work. I create spaces where campaigners and movement leaders can pause, recalibrate, and build the internal and external support they need to keep going. This is not just about getting through a campaign. It is about doing the work in a way that is more sustainable, more grounded, and more aligned with who you are.
Because you deserve to do meaningful work without losing yourself in the process.
Resilient Campaigners runs periodically throughout the year to a small group. Add your name below to be the first to know when registration opens.