Workplace Care & Rest
Rest is Resistance | Tricia Hersey
A manifesto. Rooted in Black liberation.
We are not resting to work more. We do not have to earn rest.
Resting can look like: closing your eyes for 10 minutes, a long shower in silence, meditating on the couch for 20 minutes, daydreaming, warm tea, slow dancing with yourself to slow music, regular breaks from social media, deep listening to a full music album, not immediately responding to texts and emails
Places to start: detox from social media, create healthy boundaries, slow down, create systems of care.
Setting Boundaries
Hard Boundaries: start by testing out one hard boundary. Not answering emails outside of work hours, limiting tasks, interactions, or activities that are not the best use of your time
Soft Boundaries: get a better night’s sleep, limit the amount of time you spend on social media, or spend fewer office hours answering emails
Art in Praxis | Culture of Care Resources
A resource library curated by Jess Solomon of Art in Praxis, a Black, queer woman-led organizational development firm supporting progressive organization.
At the very core of every organization lies a transformative power—a culture of care that can manifest itself in truly remarkable ways - not only compensation but also our personal and professional growth. Linked is a series of timely articles and tools for organizations looking to make fundamental shifts, facilitate healing, or reimagine professional/ personal development.
Creative Rest | Denise Shanté Brown
A personal essay on reckoning with what happens to creative practice when choosing slowness and softness. A glimpse of what it feels like to resist systems of exhaustion while centering care.
Creative rest extends continual permission for creative beings to focus their full expression on the practices of slowness and softness.
Care May Be | Working Guide
DJN Care Circles & Practice Spaces, a living expression of how care can feel, ways it can show up in our experiences, and what it can shift
Design Justice Network Care Pod: Design Justice, Care & Healing Justice Reading Room
A space to gather inspirations and references connected to all things design justice, care and healing justice.
Self-Care for Museum Professionals
A lot of us have had this desire to be in this field. It’s so incredibly competitive, it’s so incredibly hard to get a job, and then once you get one, the financial remuneration is a lot less than most other fields.
So you are making sacrifice upon sacrifice to be here. Amongst those sacrifices, you shouldn’t sacrifice yourself as well and your wellbeing.
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Workplace Well-Being, Culture, & Psychological Safety
Beloved Economies | Jess Rimington, Jonna Cea
To disrupt “business as usual” we must build a culture of care. This requires prioritizing relationships, creating an ethic of care and connection in our work.
MASS Action Toolkit
Museums must interrogate the staff experience and organizational culture. We must fully understand the complex and varied ways that inequity and injustice create problematic work environments.
Psychological Safety | What is it and how do we create it?
Psychological safety in the workplace refers to an environment where employees feel comfortable and confident in expressing their opinions, ideas, concerns, and mistakes without fear of negative consequences.
US Surgeon General Framework on Workplace Well-Being
Our workplaces play a significant role in our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic brought the relationship between work and well-being into clearer focus. 84% of respondents said their workplace conditions had contributed to at least one mental health challenge.
Centered on worker voice and equity, these Five Essentials support workplaces as engines of well-being.
Museum Workers Speak Resource Hub
Articles on pay equity, collective care, institutional approaches
Museum Workers Relief Fund
a collective of activist museum workers interrogating the relationship between museums’ stated commitments to social value and their internal labor practices.
Toxic Cultures | What factors contribute
Over 60% of detrimental workplace consequences can be attributed to toxic behavior within organizations. Some of the following are warning signs of a toxic work environment:
Low morale negativity, role confusion and dysfunction, chronic and excessive stress, high turnover rates, poor internal communication, inconsistent expectations, lack of growth, lack of work/life balance