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Rest Fest Blue - 41Bed0 Coral - Ff5353 Resource Guide Yellow - Ffd546 2020 Rest Fest Blue - 41bed0 Coral - ff5353 Resource Guide Yellow - ffd546 2020 Burgundy - da4453 Green - 84c7a4 Backgorund - eff5f1 Rest Fest Resource Guide 2020 Rest Fest Blue - 41bed0 Coral - ff5353 Resource Guide Yellow - ffd546 2020 Burgundy - da4453 Green - 84c7a4 Backgorund - eff5f1 Rest Fest Resource Guide 2020 Resources & Recommendations from friends & thought leaders Spells Thought Leadership & Inspiration Blue - 41bed0 Coral - ff5353 Wellness Spotlight Series (Impact Hub Baltimore via Medium) Yellow - ffd546 adrienne maree brown - blog (via Wordpress) Burgundy - The Nap Ministry | Rest as Resistance (via Wordpress) da4453 Green - 84c7a4 Using Emergence to Take Social Innovation to Scale (The Berkana Institute) Turning Towards Each Other & Embracing the Gifts of Conflict for Social Change (Jovida Ross & Backgorund - Weyam Ghadbian via Medium) eff5f1 Two Loops Model: Berkana Institute's Theory of Change (Doing Something Good via Youtube) Practices Tools, Activities & Rituals Toolkit for Healing Justice (Black Lives Matter) Nourish: Yin + Nidra + Writing with Maya Semans (Maya Semans, Baltimore) In This Together Guide (Mend Acupuncture, Baltimore) Self-Care Strategies at Home (Nicoletta de la Brown, Baltimore) What Kinds of Self-Care Do You Need? (Katy Bishop & Kalima Young, Baltimore) Care for Your Coronavirus Anxiety (A Project By Shine) Relax and Breathe: Do Nothing for 10 Minutes (The School of Self via Youtube) Rest Fest An Invitation to Pause Blue - 41bed0 Coral - ff5353 This year has been a lot. Yellow - ffd546 In March, the world as we understood it dropped away. We were pushed to rapidly Burgundy - da4453 Green - 84c7a4 adapt in our homes, work, and community. Inequities stared us in the face. Worlds came apart. Movements for justice and liberation mobilized millions of people to take Backgorund - eff5f1 action. Our communities organized to give care and fill gaps left by chronically broken systems. After months of rapid response and endless uncertainty, people are tired. We have done so much, and there is much left to do. The courage and creativity that carried us through this year require active healing and rest in order to be restored. Our people are our greatest resources. Our hearts and minds need fuel. Our vision of building a more just, joyful, and beautiful society begs us to come to this work with our whole and healthy selves. Our capacity to do great work is grounded in how we care for ourselves and each other. Our team will be taking space to rest, reflect, and recharge at the end of this year. We will officially be observing “Rest Fest” from Dec 14 to Jan 4. We invite you to slow down with us. We believe this pause is vital groundwork to rebuild our world in 2021. What is Rest Fest? What’s in this Guide? Rest Fest celebrates the importance of Our team compiled this Resource Guide rest, reflection, and self-care to sustain with wisdom and practices we draw on the work of social justice and systems ourselves to recharge or get inspired. In Blue - 41bed0 change. moments of uncertainty, they help us Coral - ff5353 reground ourselves and our work. Yellow - ffd546 Our “official” Rest Fest period runs from Dec 14 to Jan 4. Our team will be largely We created these lists by reflecting aloud Burgundy - da4453 unplugged during this time. Our space together. Inspired by Emergent Strategy, Green - 84c7a4 will be unhosted. We will be engaged in we organized our lists into "Spells and Backgorund - eff5f1 active, intentional rest. Practices”. Spells shift our state of being and power. Practices bring us into We encourage our members, partners, alignment with ourselves and our world. and broader community to join us. Take some personal days. Give your team a The process of generating our lists was break. Limit meetings and obligations. powerful in and of itself. Create your own Read. Reflect. Recharge. Even in small lists! Borrow what resonates, explore new ways. horizons, share the experience with a friend. Reclaim your time. Connect with your people. Practice rituals of healing. Seek Regrounding is vital to moving forward out sources of inspiration and joy. Give into 2021 and beyond. yourself permission to slow down. Redefine productivity. Commit to your wellbeing. Let go of things that do not How can you contribute? serve you. Cultivate resilience. Reimagine Commit to rest and reflect at the end of this our world. year. Share your resources and practices with loved ones. Share key resources with us to add to the Resource Guide. Encourage Where did this idea come from? and enable others to reset. Our imperative to rest came about as a response to our community who told us Our social media channels will activate they wanted support in pursuing rest, around Rest Fest in the first half of self-care, and healing. Our framing and December, before we hit pause. Share your approach is rooted in dialogue and commitments, spells, and practices with us practice on our team. online and offline. #RestFest2020 We’ve been inspired by the thought leadership of Tricia Hersey of The Nap Ministry, and Emergent Strategy by If we begin to understand ourselves as adrienne maree brown. Both remind us to practice ground for transformation, slow down, connect to nature, and listen we can transform the world. to ourselves. - adrienne maree brown Resources & Recommendations from Michelle Practices Rituals of Grounding & Wellness Acupuncture, massage, therapy (monthly) Journaling Tarot readings - favorite decks: The Wild Collage Unknown, Tarot Del Fuego Baths Morning coffee time with Andy Listening to records all the way through Chinese checkers Walks with friends Little localism treats - fancy coffee at Cabin weekends Sophomore, books from Bird in Hand Campfires - building & tending them House projects Baking Laura’s White Bread (a family recipe) Moon Lists journal Daily pocket crystals Time with friends Building altars of sacred objects Time alone Smudging with sage Magnolia oil Dancing in the living room with Andy -favorite tracks: This Must Be the Place by Talking Heads, Become Younger by Peals Listening to favorite albums and singing along: -Joni Mitchell (Blue), Nina Simone (Sings the Blues), Brian Eno (Here Come the Spells Warm Jets), Shannon and the Clams (Onion), Inspiration from Culture & Community Mountain Man (Magic Ship) Listen TODAY On Being podcast - Ocean Vuong, John Lewis, Today I’m flying low and I’m Jericho Brown, Wendell Berry, Rebecca Solnit not saying a word. Aldous Harding - Zoo Eyes I’m letting all the voodoos of ambition sleep. Look American Utopia - David Byrne The world goes on as it must, Life on Our Planet - David Attenborough the bees in the garden rumbling a little, The Artist Is Present - Marina Abramovic the fish leaping, the gnats getting eaten. Midnight Gospel - Netflix series And so forth. Harriet Tubman - underground railroad trail Fantastic Fungi But I’m taking the day off. Quiet as a feather. Read I hardly move though I’m really traveling Vesper Flights - Helen MacDonald a terrific distance. Trainings in Compassion - Norman Fischer Power and Love - Adam Kahane Stillness. One of the doors The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates Into the temple. How to Change Your MInd - Michael Pollen James Baldwin essays -Mary Oliver Resources & Recommendations from Irene Practices Rituals of Grounding & Wellness Reading Painting with ink and watercolor Journaling Processing and deep conversations with Gratitude lists close friends Collaging Singing bowl meditations Running Listening to albums (2020 favorite: Chilombo Salt baths - Jhené Aiko) Cooking Filipino adobo (Dad’s recipe) Time alone for self-reflection, processing, Catching up with loved ones and recharge Sitting by the water / docks at the Inner Meditating with crystals (favorites: sunstone, Harbor moonstone and citrine) Self-dates - mostly to walk to and read at Taking care of “earthly things” - review local parks finances and caring for my home Wearing red lipstick and doing my hair Naming fears out loud - acknowledging to Curating my wardrobe and dressing well build acceptance and release (instant confidence boost!) Burning sage and eucalyptus at home Mirror affirmations and self check-ins Reading old journals Watching the clouds as a reminder of Looking at family and childhood photos as a impermanence and to relieve anxiety reminder of my roots Brainstorming and laying out writing projects Listening to Disney piano music / essays Daily skincare routine Making my bed every morning Spells Inspiration from Culture & Community Gifts of Imperfection - Brené Brown Listen No Mud, No Lotus - Thich Nhat Hanh A Life Worthy of Our Breath with Ocean The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Vuong - On Being podcast Deepak Chopra Jhené Aiko: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz Look Come As You Are - Emily Nagoski Congresswoman AOC’s Guide to Her Signature Red Lip - Vogue Midnight Gospel - Netflix series (favorite episode: “Mouse of Silver” on the cycle of life The Alchemist and death) And, when you want something, Read all the universe conspires in All About Love - bell hooks helping you to achieve it. On Work & On Joy and Sorrow - poems by Kahlil Gibran Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe -Paulo Coelho - Laura Lynne Jackson Pleasure Activism - adrienne maree brown Practices Rituals of Grounding & Wellness My mother’s soup Buying new curtains and duvet covers in winter There is revolution in your rest Writing in the early morning or the middle of the night, when the house is quiet Sit in the car & listen to music Driving around Therapy,
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