Wellness Sessions and Workshops
In-Sight Collaborative offers free monthly wellness sessions, journaling club, and pay-what-you-can workshops that are open to the general public. These sessions are designed to provided a supportive space for those who are on the frontlines of change, come together, process the world and our work, share knowledge, and heal.
The sessions and workshops are designed to create a space where individuals involved in humanitarian efforts can connect, share experiences, and process the emotional toll of their work through creative and hands-on means. It’s a place to share the challenges we’re facing, reflect on our personal journeys, and heal together in a supportive, like-minded community.
You can find our upcoming offerings and session archive below.
Events Calendar
Upcoming Events List
August 19th at 4pm UTC - Cultural Nourishment
How can we lean into the warm embrace of our culture to support our emotional and spiritual wellbeing? This wellness session will ground us in the cultures that shaped us and make us who we are. Participants will be encouraged to reconnect with aspects of their culture that help anchor them in their work as humanitarians, activists, or anyone involved in social justice work.
Format: Self-reflection and optional breakout room sharing
Suggested supplies: A pen and some paper or a notebook for your reflections. Also consider bringing a culturally significant or special snack or drink to enjoy during the session!
September 23rd at 4pm UTC - Movement and Mental Health
How does movement support our mental health and wellbeing? We are constantly bombarded with messaging about the importance - no, the necessity - of movement in our lives, yet we live in a heavily industrialized world where ancestral ways of moving are cut out of our lives and we are tethered to the restraints of a 9-5 job. Movement is often repackaged or rebranded and sold to us as one more subscription to pay or productive thing we need to check off of our to-do lists. Ableist society has also influenced how we define “acceptable” or “productive” i.e. meaningful forms of movement - a workout isn’t good enough unless you lift a certain amount of weight, do a certain number of reps, reach a certain heartrate… movement has become a form of self-punishment for many of us, and many of us have simultaneously been disconnected from the types of movement that are restful, healing, and ancestral. How can we reclaim movement and embodiment as a tool for our wellness practice?
Format: Gentle movement, self-reflection, and optional breakout room sharing
Suggested supplies: A pen and some paper or a notebook for your reflections. Make sure you have enough space to be on your feet or in a comfortable sitting position for light movement.
October 21st at 4pm UTC - Radical Removal
As the Northern Hemisphere enters the season of fall and the Southern Hemisphere prepares for the new growth of spring, we are at a seasonal reflection point. The transition of the seasons provides an opportunity for deep reflections as the world around us reshuffles, recalculates, and completes its cycle of growth and rebirth or death and letting go. What no longer serves me? What should I shed as I burst forth into a new season or let fall to the ground and fertilize the ideas, dreams, and plans that I will nurture in the cold winter months?
Format: Self-reflection, and optional breakout room sharing
Suggested supplies: A pen and some paper or a notebook for your reflections.
November 18th at 5pm UTC - Grounding in Gratitude
Heading into the busy holiday period, consumerist messages are forced on us from every angle. It is easy to feel a notion of scarcity or lacking and an urgency to get more, do more, buy more. This wellness session will walk us through the steps to create a grounding gratitude practice that we can lean into during the chaos of the commercial holiday season.
Format: Self-reflection, and optional breakout room sharing
Suggested supplies: A pen and some paper or a notebook for your reflections.
December 16th at 5pm UTC - Nostos and Navigating Our Way Home
Nostos originates in the epic of The Odyssey, describing both the journey, navigation of hardship, and the safe return of Odysseus after his journey. Nostos has been used to describe the simultaneous longing for a sense of home and the search for belonging, especially after it became one of the root words for the concept of nostalgia in the 1600s. Displacement, migration, and difficult family dynamics all contribute to our modern-day experiences of nostos - this wellness session is an opportunity to reflect on how we can honor both our longing for home and the places that we feel we belong. Join us to hold space for our selves - past, present, and future.
Format: Self-reflection, and optional breakout room sharing
Suggested supplies: A pen and some paper or a notebook for your reflections.
Moral Injury Workshop Series
Moral Injury in Humanitarian Contexts - August 27th at 4pm UTC: Humanitarian contexts are full of morally challenging situations. Many people enter the sector on a voluntary or professional basis to try and make a difference in the world around them... but what happens when we have to face the realization that the humanitarian sector is plagued with injustice, structural violence, and inequities shaped by powers beyond our control? For many people, this leads to a series of complex symptoms and emotions called moral injury. This 75 minute training will take a deeper dive into ways humanitarian contexts can be morally injurious and how humanitarians can cultivate individual and collective coping practices when they have been morally injured. Prior attendance of a moral injury 101 training is recommended but not required.
Moral Injury-Informed Leadership - September 24th at 4pm UTC: What can leaders do to promote a supportive environment in morally injurious contexts? This workshop will break down the basics of moral injury and how it shows up in humanitarian, nonprofit, and activist spaces. Participants will then be invited to move through reflections on how they can promote a moral injury-informed space and leadership style in their work. Prior attendance of a moral injury 101 training is recommended but not required.
Moral Injury 101 - October 29th at 4pm UTC: Moral injury is an emerging topic in the mental health landscape, but it has yet to enter mainstream discourse and gain as much popularity as trauma and trauma-informed care. Many of us have been exposed to morally injurious events, moral injury, and severe forms of moral distress that can have profoundly negative consequences on our mental health and wellbeing. Moral injury is incredibly common in contexts where structural violence and social injustices occur, making humanitarians, activists, and affected communities at high risk for experiencing moral distress and difficulty managing lasting symptoms.
This workshop will introduce participants to moral injury, potentially morally injurious events, and ways to identify and manage moral injury when it occurs. This session is open to anyone who wants to learn more about moral injury and is a prerequisite for our moral injury workshop series.
Moral Injury in Nonprofit Professionals and Volunteers - November 19th at 5pm UTC: Nonprofit workers are on the frontlines of many social justice issues facing local and global communities. As funding cuts, actual and manufactured scarcity, and political and cultural challenges take a toll on the work that the sector aims to do, nonprofit professionals and volunteers are finding themselves in logistically and morally challenging situations in their day-to-day work. Limitations from the nonprofit industrial complex and other systems and structures influencing the work that we do puts those of us positioned within nonprofit organizations at risk for moral injury.
This workshop will help nonprofit sector participants better understand moral injury by defining it, identifying potentially morally injurious events, and talking through ways to operate within a morally injurious sector without compromising our individual and collective wellbeing.
Session Archive
Embracing the Power of Your Identity: In a world that rewards conformity - especially the kind shaped by whiteness, maleness, and dominance - how do you show up as your full self? Join us for a conversation on leveraging your identity in spaces that weren’t built for you, resisting the urge to shrink yourself to fit, and reclaiming the strength that lives in your uniqueness.
Sacred Grief: Grief is sacred. So is your work. This month, we gather to honor the quiet sorrow that lives in our field—what we’ve witnessed, what we’ve buried, and what we’re still learning to process and understand. For those who hold stories of loss, cross borders with others, and carry more than what’s visible—this space is for you. Come breathe. Be witnessed. And remember: your heart is not a liability—it’s a compass.
Herbalism, Witchcraft, and Rituals: Let’s tap into the indigenous wisdom of the natural world—through herbalism, ritual, and connection with the plants that nourish and protect us. We’re embracing our inner witches, reclaiming spiritual practices rooted in care and resistance, and remembering that healing doesn’t come from systems—it comes from the earth, community. Come curious. Come barefoot. Come ready to steep in something sacred.
Moral Injury Peer Support Group Session: In-Sight Collaborative's Emily Reznicek and Madi Williamson lead session to introduce the concept of moral injury and how to start the conversation with yourself and your peers.