Discussion Guides

Individual Reflection Guide

This set of questions can be used as a solo tool for reflection as you are working through this reader. You do not need to have read all the pieces to utilize this guide.

• How am I doing in my relationships? Do any of my close relationships (in and outside of community organizing) need tending to?

• What is my relationship to the natural world? If I find healing or peace in nature, have I made intentional time for this lately?

• What are my spiritual practices? Are they still working for me, or am I ready to try or return to practices that may work better for me right now?

• How am I involved in activist or social change work? How do I want to be engaged?

• Maisha Manson’s poem, “Body III”, touches on the themes of emotional and psychic exhaustion in activist community. Have you experienced a similar feeling? What are your practices to prevent feeling this way in the future?