Ben Greene - Resource Mapping and Resilience Building for LGBTQ+ Folks and Allies

This is a Mama Dragons event for members of Mama Dragons. To register, see "Events" on the new Mama Dragons platform.

Join Mama Dragons for an important conversation with author and activist Ben Greene about self-care as well as community care. 

We'll talk through important strategies for avoiding burnout and empathy fatigue and build our emotional capacity muscles. We'll also go through a resource mapping exercise to help you develop a better understanding of what resources are available to you and the people in your community, and how you might be able to pick one or two of these resources to get involved in. Through this, we'll create action plans that empower us to get involved and build community. We'll then discuss fearmongering, messaging bills, and social media as obstacles to resilience, and walk through strategies to engage with the news to stay informed without risking our sanity. There is a…