Act, Rest, Reset, Repeat: Create change without burning out
About this ebook
Award-winning youth activist Katie Hodgetts founded The Resilience Project after a period of burnout from climate activism, and in this book she empowers young adults to navigate a changing world by building up resilience through rest, community, connection and celebration.
Drawing on her own experiences, as well as research conducted alongside Imperial College London and Stanford University in California, Katie proposes a new type of activism for an anxious generation: one that breaks the cycle of fighting fire with fire, and is sustainable for our mental health and sense of identity as well as the planet. Follow the eight steps in this book:
• Step 1: Vulnerability as strength
• Step 2: Beyond identity politics: meet as humans
• Step 3: Emotional permaculture: fight dragon, get the gold
• Step 4: Control your narratives
• Step 5: Learn to navigate burnout
• Step 6: Build your resilience rucksack
• Step 7: The eight types of rest
• Step 8: Practice gratitude
This is activism meets self-care – for young people who want to be responsible world citizens without sacrificing themselves in the process.
About the author
Katie Hodgetts is an award-winning youth climate activist. She founded of Bristol Youth Strike 4 Climate and has coordinated 12+ mass-climate mobilizations. She has delivered speeches to crowds alongside Greta Thunberg, and delivered workshops at the Inner Development Goals Summit. Derailed by burnout aged 24, she founded The Resilience Project to empower young people to become resilient changemakers. In 2022 she was one of the SouthWest's 30 under 30, and was named the Conduit’s Young Climate Innovator in 2023. She has sat on IKEA’s Young Global Leaders Board since 2021 and written extensively for The Ecologist.
Find out more: theresilienceproject.org.uk
