Taking changemakers from burned out to bright-eyed.
Making change shouldn't mean burning out. Rooted Respite gives social changemakers like you the tools you need to create change while living the rested, inspired, and joyful life you know is possible for the collective and yourself.
Rooted Respite's mission:
To resource social changemakers with tools, skills, and mindsets that eliminate burnout and compassion fatigue while keeping you focused on building a more equitable world.
Rooted Respite provides individual coaching, workshops, and community to help you break free from the burnout cycle and compassion fatigue prevalent in social change movements.
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Rooted Respite's Clients are...
Grassroots Organizers & Activists
Whether you're employed by the movement or a volunteer, you're on the frontlines, mobilizing people for change now. You understand the power of protest, coalition building, and making strategic demands. You speak truth to power and are willing to put yourself on the line. You create change through direct action.
Nonprofit Leaders & Service Providers
Whether you're working with individuals as a therapist or with communities as part of a nonprofit, you know that people are capable of amazing things when they have what they need to thrive. You create change through direct services and community-based initiatives.
Humanity-First Freelancers & Entrepreneurs
A visionary thinker and creative at heart, you have a vision for economic exchange outside of capitalism. You want nothing to do with exploitative and extractive business practices and differentiate yourself by choosing to lead with compassion. You create change by doing business differently.
Artists & Culture Workers
You know that the stories we tell shape our world and are committed to telling the ones most often ignored. Your art amplifies and uplifts marginalized voices. You find beauty in unlikely places and don't shy away from life's hardships. You create change through creating culture.
Spiritual Leaders & Healers
Your faith calls you to speak out against injustice and to create a world where people exist in harmony the land. Your source of strength is something larger than yourself and you know how to channel it to remind people of their wholeness. You help people find meaning in life through action. You create change by nurturing the human spirit.
DEI Practitioners & Consultants
You think in systems and see how they've been constructed to keep certain people out. You're committed to removing systemic barriers to create a world where all people have access to opportunity. You're as adept at having hard conversations as you are at measuring impact. You create change by confronting systemic bias.
They all have one thing in common... the desire to make change without burning out.
Rooted Respite Offers
Individual Coaching
Trauma-informed burnout coaching that helps you reclaim your life, reconnect with joy, and root yourself in what's most important to you.
Coaching with Taj is available on a monthly basis to give you the flexibility and convenience of getting coaching when you need it.
Monthly Virtual Support Calls
Monthly Community Support Calls are spaces for social changemakers to get some extra support in a space where you don’t have to the answers.
Support Calls are the last Friday of every month (unless listed otherwise) at 3 pm EST. Calls are always free, virtual, confidential, and come as you are.
Workshops & Public Speaking
Taj's experience as a Black transgender man gives him a unique perspective on social change. He is available for keynotes and workshop facilitation.
Topics include burnout prevention for marginalized people, creating compassionate movements, and spotting signs of burnout in your team.
You deserve to live in the world you envision.
You can see it: a world where people have what they need to thrive, where justice, joy, equity, compassion, and healing are central to society. A world where people's intrinsic value matters more than what they produce. You know it's possible.
But when that vision gets clouded by burnout, it takes a colossal amount of effort to hold the possibility of this vision at the forefront of your mind. Things start to feel hopeless. Maybe you start to question whether what you're doing matters.
It matters. You matter.
I've been where you are and worked through the stages of my own burnout cycle. In doing this work, I created a system to help understand how old behaviors, mindsets, and trauma responses interact with the harmful systems ruling our lives to create burnout. I also devised interventions to break free.
You can break free.
Rooted Respite exists to help you not only see your vision, but to live it.
Another world is possible; let’s build it together.
Taj M. Smith, MDiv
Founder
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