All About Sustainability: Blogs and Resources
This month, we are spotlighting blogs and resources to help support the long-term sustainability of your organization.
Learn how to stay grounded with body-based tools. Photo by Drazen Zigic/iStock
Mission-driven work is tough, requiring changemakers to navigate stressful situations and develop resilience. Learning how to listen to and work with your body can help! Join us on Thursday, November 13, for Reclaim Resilience: Nervous System Practices for Sustainable Leadership, a workshop for impact-driven changemakers interested in learning practical nervous system regulation techniques that support clarity, presence, and sustainable leadership.
Workshop Details
In today’s culture of constant stress, nervous system regulation is often misidentified as remaining calm at all times and under every circumstance. In actuality, true resilience and regulation are about flexibility, and our ability to move between activation and rest, recover after stress, and lead from a grounded place. This 90-minute workshop offers leaders, teams, and changemakers a practical introduction to nervous system regulation.
When: Thursday, November 13, 2025, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. CT
Where: Virtual
Price: $25 members, $40 non-members
Key Takeaways:
- Learn nervous system basics and the impact of stress on burnout.
- Practice simple tools like orientation, resourcing, and tracking.
- Explore how to bring these practices into leadership and community settings.
Ideal For:
- Team leaders and facilitators who want to create calmer, more resilient workplace and community dynamics.
- Anyone in the Main Street network — from local program volunteers and managers to coordinating program and municipal staff — ready to build personal and organizational capacity for resilience, balance, and long-term impact.
Instructor: Juliana Allen is Executive Director at Downtown Oregon City Association, a somatic practitioner in training, and founder of Reclaim with Juliana. Drawing on years of nonprofit leadership, trauma-informed somatic training, and her own journey of reclamation, Juliana helps people reconnect with their bodies as a compass for authentic living and sustainable leadership. Her work weaves together nervous system regulation, breathwork, energy guidance, and community-based practices to create spaces where both individuals and systems can thrive.
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