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What would change if rest were not a reward, but a right? In three sessions, we explore rest as a political practice, a creative necessity, and a form of refusal. Drawing from thinkers across disciplines, we examine how exhaustion became normalized—and how individuals and communities can reclaim time, attention, pleasure, and embodied rest.
This is not a productivity workshop in disguise. It is an inquiry into the systems that demand constant output, and a guided exploration of alternatives: refusal, slowness, wintering, disability justice, Sabbath time, pleasure activism, and creative restoration. Each session combines brief readings, live discussion, reflection prompts, and periods of quiet writing or contemplation.
Participants will leave with:
Come to understand rest as:
This course welcomes writers, artists, educators, caregivers, activists, and anyone navigating exhaustion in a culture that equates worth with productivity. No prior theoretical background is required—only curiosity and willingness to experiment with stillness.
Format
Who This Is For
This is not a productivity workshop in disguise. It is an inquiry into the systems that demand constant output, and a guided exploration of alternatives: refusal, slowness, wintering, disability justice, Sabbath time, pleasure activism, and creative restoration. Each session combines brief readings, live discussion, reflection prompts, and periods of quiet writing or contemplation.
Participants will leave with:
- A clearer understanding of how burnout is structured, not personal
- Language for naming rest as resistance
- Practical strategies for cultivating sustainable rest practices
- A renewed relationship to time, creativity, and attention
Come to understand rest as:
- resistance to extraction
- interruption of surveillance/productivity culture
- bodily sovereignty
- creative incubation
- grief practice
- refusal
- spiritual technology
- collective care
This course welcomes writers, artists, educators, caregivers, activists, and anyone navigating exhaustion in a culture that equates worth with productivity. No prior theoretical background is required—only curiosity and willingness to experiment with stillness.
Format
- 3 session recordings
- Guided, reflective writing and discussion
- Gentle, accessible pacing
- Recommended Reading List for digger deeper later
Who This Is For
- Creatives seeking sustainable practice
- Educators and students confronting burnout
- Caregivers balancing multiple demands
- Anyone interested in disability justice, feminist theory, contemplative practice, or anti-capitalist frameworks of time
- People who want to rest without guilt—and think about why that’s difficult
