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From Nice to Necessary: Activism for “People Pleasers”
Jul 12 at 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Ever have a moment at a dinner table, where someone says something terrible and you feel you have no choice but to accept it? Have you ever felt like you haven’t done enough about the ongoing genocide happening in front of our eyes, and felt guilty/shameful about it? Maybe you’re doing too much, and are now “choked up, face down, burnt out” (Roan, 2023)?
In this interactive session, we will dive deep into what it means to be a “people pleaser” and the various ways it can show up in activism; ranging from avoidance to overwork. Participants will then be invited to explore the roots and edges of their own people pleasing tendencies, and work towards understanding where their perceptions of safety and fear begin, merge, and end.
Our instructor, Jess Tsang (they/them) is an addictions counsellor, independent scholar, and former Special Education teacher from Toronto.