Our favourite resources on rest:
Radical Rest
Kate's article summarising our Radical Rest project & research: https://www.anewdirection.org.uk/blog/radical-rest-for-the-cultural-sector
Culture and sector change for rest:
The fabulous Nap Ministry’s Rest As Resistance
Flexible working activism
Rest research and support for Global Majority leaders
What we can learn from chronic-illness-informed organising
Cultural sector workers feel ‘under siege and overwhelmed’ - research and recommendations from Clore Leadership
Organisational rest:
Support and evidence for trialling a 4-day-week
64 Million Artists, who lead the sector on creating a well-rested team, just released all their wisdom in one place: A Manifesto for Transformative Workplace Culture
Example of an organisation having closure times for staff rest
Rising Arts Agency pay for emotional labour when artists are asked to use their lived experience
Museums Association’s Wellbeing Hub
How to unionise to improve working conditions
Personal rest:
Low-cost counselling for Arts workers
Free Radical Self Care Journal for arts professionals working with young people
GLAM Cares: wellbeing support for museum community engagement professionals
The 7 types of rest we need
Slow the F Down articles
A Slower Urgency: Bayo Akomolafe on responses to eco-anxiety and urgent global crises
Books Radical Rest Network members have loved:
Rest is Resistance by the “Nap Bishop” Tricia Hersey (her beautiful new book We Will Rest! is out now)
Art of Rest by Claudia Hammond for research-based rest
Permission to Rest by Ashley Reese for inspirational ideas
Rest to Reset by Suzy Reading for a great overview and practical tips
On boundaries: The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and The Book of Boundaries: Set the Limits that will Set You Free by Melissa Urban
For those who find it difficult to prioritise: Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much
Wintering by Katherine May on getting through difficult seasons
the wonderful and free Radical Self Care Journal by Dawn Estefan
Podcasts:
Kate was interviewed about the Radical Rest Network for the Art Engager podcast - listen in here for stories, tips and food for thought:
The Natural Collisions podcast hosted Radical Rest’s Kate Oliver in conversation with Jodi Nishioka of BIPOC ED Coalition WA, provider of funded sabbaticals for exhausted non-profit leaders. We share why workers in charities and non-profits find rest uncomfortable, and radical solutions from 3-month sabbaticals to 5-minute breaks.
Roots & All podcast’s amazing interview with Evie Mure, who invites us to a nature-focused and Black Feminist vision of a world rooted in Radical Rest
