Resilience Coaching for Individuals, Groups, and Nonprofit Orgs Doing Social Justice Work
What is your superhero name? What are your superpowers? How can you maximize your superpowers in your professional and personal life?
Resilience and wellness coaching and debriefing for social justice comrades, organizers, activists, nonprofit workers, and other progressive humans who want to pause, reflect, reassess, maximize superpowers, replenish, celebrate, and keep their resistance momentum moving forward.
Tailored to your specific needs, Irene’s trauma-informed resilience coaching offers goal-oriented support and guidance for individuals and groups seeking to take stock, process, and heal, boost emotional endurance, and improve their overall health and well-being.
I. Resilience Resistance Coaching for individuals
II. Resilience Resistance Coaching groups and nonprofit organizations
See also: Helping professional resilience and vicarious trauma workshop, addressing conflicts in a social justice workplace or group, and Color Your Resistance Support Group.
Irene’s resiliency coaching uses an oppression-aware, trauma-informed, strengths-based, and healing-justice approach. Irene’s personal and professional background includes years of social justice frontline and behind-the-scenes organizing and activism, as well as serving as a psychological first-aid street medic trainer and national facilitator of dozens of activist-related groups and conversations.
Part of Irene’s “Superhero Healing & Resilience Series”
I. Individual Resilience and Wellness Coaching
The goals of individual activist resilience and wellness coaching include:
1. Process and debrief:
- What are your strengths and superpowers? How are you applying them to your work and care in this resistance movement?
- How have you been contributing to the resistance? Do you feel like you are doing enough or too much? How did you decide what your role/contributions would be?
- What stories, experiences are sticking with you? Stories of tragedy and inspiration.
- Identify your Political Trauma Stress (PTS) symptoms from the past months of occupation and the rise of fascism.
- Share how the ongoing social-political climate of oppression, fear, chaos, and uncertainty is adversely impacting your emotional, physical, psychological, and spiritual health and well-being.
- Celebrate your strengths, commitment, and the personal and collective changes.
2. Learn concrete skills and strategies:
- Receive support and strategies to manage any PTS and PTSD symptoms.
- Identify what you are learning about your resilience and strengths.
- Identify the Nine Elements of Resiliency and learn how you can build on them as you navigate the current social-political situation.
- Learn the Nine Types of Activist Self-Care and Wellness. Assess your commitment to your self-care and wellness.
- How do you know when it is time to pause or take a break in your resistance work?
- How do you determine your ongoing role in the revolution?
- Create a personalized Resilience and Resistance Self-care Plan to fortify yourself as you keep moving your resistance forward.
II. Organizational Activist Resilience and Wellness Coaching
Organizational activist wellness coaching applies the concepts of political trauma stress, resilience, self-care, and wellness to your specific organization or group. It is helpful to discuss, debrief, and share, then identify each person’s strengths and superpowers, and build on them with fine-tuned strategies and ideas.
Prompts for these group discussions may include:
What are the superpowers, skills, and strengths I have that are helping me get through these current social-political (and past) trauma experiences?
How do the intersections of systemic oppression, my identities, and my personal and professional life impact my well-being and sense of safety in the world and in this group?
- In what ways related to the rise of fascism and reduction in human rights am I experiencing my own and others’ increased anger, frustration, fragility, and burnout?
- What would a shared safety and care protocol for helping each other through these times look like?
- How do I take care of myself in the face of political trauma stress?
- What do health and wellness mean to me?
- How do I develop and sustain healthier boundaries in my personal, familial, and professional life?
- How do I maintain balance around my social justice-related actions, conversations, and choices?
- In what ways am I feeling burnt out, and why?
- I am resilient. Why do I still feel so exhausted?
- How can I healthily address my perfectionism, people-pleasing, anxiety, fear, and overwhelm?
- What unhealthy coping strategies do I use to distract, ignore, or avoid the feelings or challenging things in my life, i.e., social media, substance use, keeping busy, negative self-talk, isolating, etc.? What are healthier options?
- How does stress impact my body? Somatically, how can I release the stuck emotional and physical stress and tension that I carry in my body?
- How are my past traumas being triggered by the traumas inherent in the current social-political environment?
- What does shared community trauma, care, and resiliency mean to me and us?
If any of these questions are ones you or your group wants to explore, contact me
Resources:
Activist Self-Care and Wellness
Activist and Community Resources: TC Occupation 2025-26
To learn about the individual and relationship, group, and training services offered by Irene, or to schedule your complimentary 30-minute consultation. Contact Irene Greene
