Mindfulness for Organizers

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Mindfulness for Organizers

Mindfulness for Organizers is a project by Ben to integrate insights from mindfulness practices with political organizing for inclusive social change.

  1. 19/04/2021

    12 - Emotions are Tunnels

    This guided mindfulness exercise reflects on Emily Nagoski's quote  "emotions are tunnels". The exercise reminds you that your feelings  fundamentally motivate you to do something that is adaptive. The  practice reminds you that even difficult and challenging feelings embody your connection to others.

    9 min

  2. 12/04/2021

    11 - A Warm Hug

    This guided mindfulness exercise imagines a hug, connection, and presence. Something that we all need during COVID-19 especially. It practices your access to compassion and kindness hoping that you can bring this feeling into your everyday life.

    14 min

  3. 05/04/2021

    10 - The Trees' Perspective

    This guided mindfulness exercise focuses on shifting the time frame you think in terms of to help you see your present from a more positive and constructive lens. It shares a story of a time I went on a walk and remember to this day.

    8 min

  4. 22/03/2021

    9 - Refreshing Hike

    This guided mindfulness exercise imagines you going on a short walk through friendly woods. You have moments to reflect and gather yourself. You head back into the world feeling recharged.

    11 min

  5. 15/03/2021

    8 - Facing Discomfort

    This mindfulness exercise visualizes you facing discomfort head-on. It helps you practice differentiating how unpleasant an experience is from the stress of having to face the experience itself. It hopes to develop a mental skill you can bring into the moments of your life that you dread facing, but that you will be better for facing.

    10 min

  6. 15/03/2021

    7 - Simple Internal Family Systems Based Reflection

    This meditation is inspired by internal family systems. It intends to connect you to how your body is connected to the hurt parts of you that influence you in this present moment. It intends to build your muscle of self-awareness and self-compassion for emotional healing and growth.

    10 min

  7. 08/03/2021

    6 - Remembering the Other in Conflict

    This simple meditation is based around one of my most poignant memories in community organizing. Conflict can pick us up in a mighty river of emotion — remembering that we want to go to the same place, that we want a shared community, the other party can help reduce the unproductive parts of conflict.

    8 min

  8. 03/03/2021

    5 - Pausing with Food

    This meditation is intended for you to save for moments when you need to pause from thinking about food or eating. As someone who has recovered from an eating disorder, I know how the pressure to make a food decision in the moment can be utterly overwhelming — this meditation intends to give you the time you need to make a decision 'that you would make for a friend in your situation'.

    11 min
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Mindfulness for Organizers is a project by Ben to integrate insights from mindfulness practices with political organizing for inclusive social change.

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