Social justice and human rights advocates often face stress and trauma, but frequently lack tools to support resilience at the individual, organizational, and movement levels. These stressors can be amplified among the leaders of grassroots, community, and survivor-led human rights groups. Often, such leaders are grappling with significant trauma themselves while trying to advocate for their own rights, as well as the rights of their communities. Despite these challenges, many community-based organizations are also at the forefront of advancing and innovating well-being practices within their movements, and across the human rights field.

The Wellbeing Defenders Collective serves as an environment for reflection, innovation, and honest exchanges, in which human rights leaders can have the flexibility to learn, make mistakes, iterate, and deepen their inner well-being and organizational practices in dialogue with each other.

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