Reclaiming Radical Rest for Workers Navigating Burnout Under Racial and Other Capitalisms

A 2-part series for workers who know bubble baths won't fix systemic problems

The Reality

Workers dedicated to social justice are burning out at unsustainable rates—95% of nonprofit leaders cite burnout as a concern in their organizations, often unaware of the conditions producing it. Historically, those most subordinated by intersecting systems of capitalism—particularly working-class and undereducated workers, Black and Indigenous workers, disabled workers, trans workers, and those at multiple intersections—are overworked, under-resourced, and die earlier. The system isn't sustainable for anyone, but it has convinced us that overworking is the only path to keeping our lights on personally and to building a liberated future.

What This Series Offers

This isn't another training telling you to "practice self-care" while you labor in conditions designed to extract everything from you. This is a 3-part series for workers organizing against intersecting capitalisms and toward socially liberated futures—workers who are exhausted and afraid of the health implications, who know systemic problems require systemic solutions. Together, we'll build analysis, assess our actual conditions, and create collective strategies for sustaining ourselves within and against the systems trying to consume us.

Who This Is For

Workers organizing for social justice and liberation who are: Exhausted and concerned about the health implications Tired of being told to practice self-care in unsustainable conditions Ready to move beyond individual solutions to collective strategy Committed to understanding the systemic roots of burnout This series centers the experiences of working-class, Black, Indigenous, disabled, trans workers, and those at multiple intersections who bear the heaviest burden of capitalist extraction.

What You'll Walk Away With

• Systemic Analysis

  • Understand why rest feels impossible through an exploration of intersecting capitalisms and how they structure workplace extraction.

  • Critical Consciousness
    Examine your indoctrination into overwork culture through familial, media, and social systems—and how these messages differ based on your social locations. Burnout Assessment
    Understand burnout's physical and psychological impacts, and assess your own relationship to burnout with practical tools. Holistic Wellness Framework
    Explore your relationship to wellness beyond individualized self-care narratives that ignore structural barriers. Rest Audits
    Evaluate both organizational conditions and personal practices to identify what's actually within your control to change. Liberatory Network
    Join an ongoing rest-centered community to share structural and interpersonal strategies for sustaining ourselves within and against intersecting capitalisms.

• Series Format

2 sessions, 90 minutes each
Virtual delivery via Zoom Session 1: Why Rest Feels Impossible — Systemic analysis of capitalist extraction
Session 2: Assessing Burnout & Wellness — Personal inventory and holistic frameworks
Session 3: Rest Audits & Collective Strategy — Practical tools and community building Sessions include presentation, small group discussion, guided reflection, and practical exercises. Participants receive resources and maintain access to the ongoing network after the series concludes.

About the Facilitator

Aysa Gray, MA founded Marronage Collective after years of witnessing how social justice movements burn through their most committed workers. As an organizational consultant with lived experience navigating burnout at multiple intersections, they bring both theoretical frameworks and practical tools for understanding how systems create unsustainable conditions—and how we build alternatives that don't consume us. Their work asks: How do we sustain ourselves while fighting for liberation?

Format

• 5 hours (standard)

• Virtual delivery via Zoom

• Small group discussion, presentation, guided practice, and reflection

Investment

We use sliding scale pricing because we believe transformative training shouldn't only be accessible to well-funded institutions. When larger organizations pay more, they directly subsidize access for grassroots groups doing essential work with minimal resources.

Under $100K budget: $700
$100K–$1M budget: $1,500
$1M–$5M budget: $2,500
$5M+ budget: $3,500

Choose honestly based on your organization's total operating budget. All rates cover up to 30 participants.

Includes preparation, facilitation, and comprehensive resource guide