Learn practices to sustain yourself in the workplace.

SJPLA’s Community Care and the Workplace is a free five-week course for folks who work in the homeless response sector. We’ll discuss ways disconnection, burnout, and grief shows up in our work.

Through guided discussion, practices, and guest speakers, participants will build practices that offer care for themselves while being of service to our greater community. The course will explore community care strategies like healing justice framework, embodied mindfulness, council circle, and more.

We rarely address the mental, physical, and emotional toll of this work, felt most acutely by BIPOC workers, leading to burnout and attrition. Providing practices and tools to care for this workforce helps retain expert employees and renew their ability to care for their clients.

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Learning Overview

We will identify unique ways to collectively invite wellbeing and community care practices in ourselves, our structures, and our work.

• Week 1: Community Welcome & Introduction

• Week 2: Understanding the Nervous System with Angelica Sievers

• Week 3: Grief at Work with Sofia Rose Smith

• Week 4: Mindful Awareness with syd yang

• Week 5: Building a Practice

How it works

• The course takes place over five 90 minute sessions and will enroll 25-30 people per course.

• Eligible applicants:

  • Homeless response worker in Los Angeles

  • Have not taken this course with us before

  • Can commit to attending all five sessions (via zoom). If you miss the first session, you will be removed from the course.

    • Monday, March 2, 11-12:30 p.m.

    • Monday, March 9, 11-12:30 p.m.

    • Monday, March 16, 11-12:30 p.m.

    • Monday, March 23, 11-12:30 p.m.

    • Monday, March 30, 11-12:30 p.m.

Facilitators

Angelica Sievers

Alli Simon

Sofia Rose Smith

Syd Yang

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Registration is open.