21-Day Self-Care Challenge

The 21-Day Self-Care Challenge starts on the first Tuesday of every month. Enter your email to sign-up and you’ll receive daily prompts (with a Friday bonus prompt to take into a weekend practice) to help you become more aware of your habits around self-care and to begin to shift those habits into more sustainable, mindful practices.

Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress

The Center’s work addresses a wide scope of trauma exposure from the consequences of combat, operations other than war, terrorism, natural and human-made disasters, and public health threats.

The Field Guide for Barefoot Psychology

The Field Guide for Barefoot Psychology is an educational and self-care tool written for adults forcibly displaced, and for those working with them. Grounded in the belief that science is a right and self-awareness is an asset, the Guide unpacks the biological and psychological processes associated with the experience of forced displacement, including issues such as fear, anxiety, stress, trauma, guilt, shame, and hopelessness. It also specifically explores positive assets for cultivating resilience, including the science of neuroplasticity, belonging, and post-traumatic growth (https://beyondconflictint.org/what-we-do/curent-intitatives/migrant-and-refugee-crisis/the-field-guide-for-barefoot-psychologists/).

The Holistic Security Manual

The Holistic Security Manual is founded on the understanding that 'security' is a deeply personal, subjective and gendered concept. When we work to bring about positive social change, we can face persistent threats and attacks which impact upon our physical and psychological integrity, and often affect our friends and families. However, taking an organised approach to security can help us to sustain ourselves and our work.

This manual is the first to adopt an explicitly 'holistic' approach to security and protection strategies for human rights defenders. This means that rather than looking separately at the importance of our digital security, psycho-social well-being and organisational security processes, it attempts to integrate them and highlight their interrelatedness.

The manual is designed to guide a process of establishing or improving security strategies for individuals, collectives or organisations. The content is divided into four Sections: Prepare, Explore, Strategise and Act, which are conceived as steps in an evolving, cyclical process and should be regularly revisited as part of our ongoing strategic planning. The chapters which appear on this website are summarised versions of those in the manual, which can be downloaded and read offline.

Human Rights Resilience Project

This website is a collaborative space run by the Human Rights Resilience Project to bring together resources, research, and tools to improve resilience and well-being within the human rights community. The crucial work undertaken by advocates to investigate abuse and advocate for justice can often expose them to traumatic material, threats, stressors, and violence that can affect well-being. This space aims to meet the urgent need for advocates to have improved access to tailored education, training, and research materials.

There are a number of links to resources under "Tools & Programs for Resilience."

International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies is dedicated to sharing information about the effects of trauma and the discovery and dissemination of knowledge about policy, program and service initiatives that seek to reduce traumatic stressors and their immediate and long-term consequences. ISTSS is an international interdisciplinary professional organization that promotes advancement and exchange of knowledge about traumatic stress.

Manual on Human Rights Monitoring: Trauma and Self-Care

The first part of this chapter reviews some of the effects that trauma can have on someone’s ability to recall and recount events. This can help HROs to have a trauma-sensitive approach to human rights monitoring. This part provides basic guidelines for HROs on how to interview trauma survivors, how to analyse information gathered from them, and what interventions may be helpful to support survivors recovering from traumatic human rights violations.

Practicing Individual and Collective Self-Care at Frida

FRIDA has great resources for self and collective care both for its team and for its grantees. It considers self and collective care to be an essential part of the feminist political strategy to ensure the sustainability of the feminist movement. This list contains working principles for young feminists who work in high-pressure environments, to ensure that they maintain a healthy work-life balance, and to foster resilience, but is also useful for all non-profit organizations. (https://www.hrresilience.org/tools--trainings.html)

Psychosocial Support Resources from Save the Children

Here you will find many materials regarding psychosocial interventions primarily for children, includes those in situations of armed conflict. There are also resources for adults working with children, some of which can be applicable to other situations.

Resources for Psychosocial Support in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings

Links to various resources for psychosocial support in fragile and conflict-affected settings listed by The World Bank.

Trauma-Informed Peacebuilding

This manual, provides guidance for donors, multinational organizations, and practitioners in the fields of healthcare, education, human rights, conservation, and humanitarian aid who are considering integrating trauma-responsive theory and practices to meet local needs.