Rest & Play Retreat Scholarships for Organizers
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This GoFundMe campaign is to raise money for the Scholarship Fund for BIPOC Movement Organizers who wish to attend WildSeed Society's Rest + Play Retreats.
At WildSeed Society, we know that the liberated world we seek cannot be ushered in by exhausted folks.
This is especially true for the people who are on the front lines stewarding movements to BUILD a better world and BLOCK attempts to control or harm our communities.
Through their countless hours poured into doing mutual aid, community organizing and movement defense work, they have provided support when none was available, recognized the pain that would have been otherwise erased, and held back the tide of the far right.
Now, after four years of Trump and facing so many relentless crises on local, national, and global levels, many of our movement stewards are beyond burnt out. They are experiencing what we call Unprocessed Pyrrhic Loss (the effects of what can seem like an un-grievable loss after a supposed victory like getting Trump out of office). This too often can lead to broken relationships and organizations going through the motions, detached from vision.
In the beginning of the year, we created a blueprint for healing to address this Unprocessed Pyrrhic Loss for these movement leaders that we called Regenerative Self-Manumission – a process where they could free themselves from patterns of overwork and self-sacrifice. Yet we were not able to raise enough funds for this program or enough to even simply keep our lights on.
That's why, WildSeed Society is hosting a series of Rest & Play Retreats where Erika Totten, Sandra Kim, and the rest of our BIPOC team can love up on folx. Kinda like a radical summer camp for adults committed to collective liberation, they are 5-day retreats where they're invited to rest and play in beautiful nature.
Even though it'll just be for several days, we believe it can be enough to help people bring some of that magic back into their everyday life, especially with continued support from WildSeed Society.
While these retreats are primarily fundraising events for the WildSeed Society, we want them – like everything we do – to build capacity for work to change the world. We want to use them to pilot a Regenerative Manumission program on a smaller scale with a group of movement stewards.
So we're initially setting the crowdfunding goal for $20,000 in order to grant scholarships to 10 movement organizers. Our hope is that we can begin resourcing their healing journeys by giving them time to rest.
Any additional funds will go towards building our Movement Chaplaincy and Regenerative Self-Manumission work. Also, if our community isn't ready to do Rest + Play Retreats yet and we're unable to host them, we will use the money raised here to support our Movement Chaplaincy and Regenerative Self-Manumission work.
Please help movement organizers fighting for justice and our collective liberation to be held in loving community and healing nature.
In love and solidarity,
The WildSeed Society
At WildSeed Society, we know that the liberated world we seek cannot be ushered in by exhausted folks.
This is especially true for the people who are on the front lines stewarding movements to BUILD a better world and BLOCK attempts to control or harm our communities.
Through their countless hours poured into doing mutual aid, community organizing and movement defense work, they have provided support when none was available, recognized the pain that would have been otherwise erased, and held back the tide of the far right.
Now, after four years of Trump and facing so many relentless crises on local, national, and global levels, many of our movement stewards are beyond burnt out. They are experiencing what we call Unprocessed Pyrrhic Loss (the effects of what can seem like an un-grievable loss after a supposed victory like getting Trump out of office). This too often can lead to broken relationships and organizations going through the motions, detached from vision.
In the beginning of the year, we created a blueprint for healing to address this Unprocessed Pyrrhic Loss for these movement leaders that we called Regenerative Self-Manumission – a process where they could free themselves from patterns of overwork and self-sacrifice. Yet we were not able to raise enough funds for this program or enough to even simply keep our lights on.
That's why, WildSeed Society is hosting a series of Rest & Play Retreats where Erika Totten, Sandra Kim, and the rest of our BIPOC team can love up on folx. Kinda like a radical summer camp for adults committed to collective liberation, they are 5-day retreats where they're invited to rest and play in beautiful nature.
Even though it'll just be for several days, we believe it can be enough to help people bring some of that magic back into their everyday life, especially with continued support from WildSeed Society.
While these retreats are primarily fundraising events for the WildSeed Society, we want them – like everything we do – to build capacity for work to change the world. We want to use them to pilot a Regenerative Manumission program on a smaller scale with a group of movement stewards.
So we're initially setting the crowdfunding goal for $20,000 in order to grant scholarships to 10 movement organizers. Our hope is that we can begin resourcing their healing journeys by giving them time to rest.
Any additional funds will go towards building our Movement Chaplaincy and Regenerative Self-Manumission work. Also, if our community isn't ready to do Rest + Play Retreats yet and we're unable to host them, we will use the money raised here to support our Movement Chaplaincy and Regenerative Self-Manumission work.
Please help movement organizers fighting for justice and our collective liberation to be held in loving community and healing nature.
In love and solidarity,
The WildSeed Society
Fundraising team (2)
WildSeed Society
Organizer
Washington D.C., DC
Aaron Goggans
Team member