The expectation that we can be immersed in suffering and loss daily and not be touched by it is as unrealistic as expecting to be able to walk through water without getting wet.-Rachel Naomi Remen
Energizing Change Workshops
Workshops, Retreats, and Training Tailored to your specific needs.
The work of providing services to people on the social margins can be frustrating and exhausting. Whether in the field of social services, health care, or education, burnout is a real risk even for the most dedicated individuals. JUST Listening Energizing Change Workshops are designed to help participants identify the causes of burnout and compassion fatigue, explore their own stresses, and acquire skills and perspectives to stay balanced, energized, and creative.
Workshops can also explore methods for creating and sustaining passion for your mission, so that together you can continue to do the vital work you do with commitment and enthusiasm.
Workshops are customized, and can range from a program of several hours duration to an entire weekend retreat.
In an interactive and energizing format, participants have an opportunity to rejuvenate,
communicate informally with colleagues about issues of mutual importance, and acquire
information and skills needed to sustain balanced, productive, and dedicated lives.
Energizing Change Workshops are great for teams experiencing:
- Low morale
- Burnout &/or compassion fatigue
- Poor communication
- Interpersonal and/or professional conflicts
- Staff dysfunction
- Lack of trust
Workshops can also be designed to incorporate other JUST Listening program offerings, such as:
Creative Listening: To Ourselves and Others: Improve staff personal & professional communication skills
Effective Communication Across Differences: Empowerment tools for personal and social change.
Listening in Difficult Conversations: Techniques for peaceful dialogue
Animating Change: Practices for Managers and Supervisors. How to enliven and empower your staff.
Workshop Pricing
Sliding Scale Fee for JUST Listening Workshops, One facilitator
Solidarity Rate
$2000
For organizations that:
- Do social justice or service work
- Have an annual budget up to $600,000
- Are led by people of color, immigrants, and/or working class and people experiencing poverty
- Pay their highest paid staff member less than $70,000/year (FTE) or there are no staff members.
Sustain Rate
$3000
For organizations that:
- Have an annual budget between $600,000 and $1.2 million and/or;
- Pay their highest paid staff member between $70,000-$90,000/year (FTE).
Full Cost Rate
$4000
For organizations that:
- Have an annual budget between $1.2 million and $5 million and/or;
- Pay their highest paid staff member between $90,000-$150,000/year (FTE)
Redistribution Rate
$5000
For organizations that:
- Have an annual budget above $5 million and/or;
- Pay their highest paid staff member less than $70,000/year (FTE) or there are no staff members.
About Our Rates
JUST Listening offers our services on a wide sliding scale. Our sliding scale is an intentional effort to distribute resources equitably between organizations, regardless of annual budget and income level. We aim to support and strengthen groups doing social benefit and strategic movement-building work. Paying at the higher end of the scale the Redistribution rate makes it possible for JUST Listening to work with smaller organizations at little to no cost to them and supports volunteer programming for individuals experiencing deep poverty and/or incarceration.
*We are grateful to AORTA anti-oppression resource and training alliance for allowing us to borrow their sliding scale model.
