One Future Post #14: Are you well at work? 🪷
Contents
Hello From the CEO 💌
Key Story ✍🏽
What’s New? 🗞️
Coming Soon! 🔜
OFC Spotlight 💡
Art x Social Justice 🎨
From the Toolbox 🧰
Get Involved ⚙️
Hello From the CEO 💌
What do we mean when we talk about wellbeing at work, particularly for us in the civil society sector? Our challenges at work are unique - structural and individual - and expose us to complex forms of harm. Over October 2024, we unpacked these ideas and more with a Civil Society Wellness Campaign. Our research, conversations and lived experiences led us to some incredible insight, on which we based a Civil Society Wellness Protocol, which we are now opening up to you, our community, for feedback. But that’s not all - we have exciting things coming for the rest of the year, and many more adventures in building just institutions and holding them accountable. Curious to learn how? Welcome to Volume 14 of One Future Post.
Love,
Vandita Morarka
Founder and CEO, One Future Collective
Key Story ✍🏽
November was a month with lots of conversations around wellbeing, structural change, and feminist leadership, with two major highlights!
We kicked October 2024, or Mental Health Awareness Month with a theme of mental health at work, with a campaign around Civil Society Wellness. While civil society organisations are on the frontlines advocating for social change and providing essential services, the wellness of the people working within these organisations is often de-prioritised and under-resourced. Our campaign sought to understand and address the structural inadequacies, cultural narratives, and regulatory pressures that cause this. For this, we hosted a panel discussion on the subject, moderated by Vandita Morarka and featuring Parth Sharma, Omaid Sharifi and Leila Billing.
As well, we hosted picnics across Delhi, Mumbai, and Bangalore, and virtual and in-person spaces discussing the subject of civil society wellness within and outside our community.
The result of this month-long campaign is the release of a set of 8 iterative Civil Society Wellness Principles that can be used to prioritise, establish, and measure civil society workers' wellness needs. Built 'in public', this evolving set of principles needs your feedback and insight - share your thoughts, ideas, feedback and questions with us by emailing vandita@onefuturecollective.org by the end of the year!
Our second major update from this month is an exciting opportunity for South Asian gender minorities over the age of 18 years old, looking to build their feminist and social justice leadership - applications for cohort 8 of One Future Fellowship, our flagship leadership building program, are now open! Head to the 'Get Involved' section to learn more and apply today, or share this opportunity with your network!
Our key (re)learning from this month is that often challenges of building wellbeing and care into our lives is not just an individual responsibility, but a structural necessity.
We are excited to continue putting these learnings into action and see where we go!
What’s New? 🗞️
For Daan Utsav 2024, we hosted offline Labourdesk popups in Delhi and Mumbai on October 7 to take legal rights advisory directly to these cities.
From our pop-up in Mumbai
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On October 9, Arshiya Kochar and Kuhoo Tiwari from the team facilitated an interactive session on the importance of collectivising and furthering advocacy for policy change for SRHR at YouVaani 2024 by The YP Foundation.
We also hosted stalls at the Meraki Festival and Aham Festival. We also attended Mannotsava (by Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies and others).
As part of the One Future Festival, we facilitated workshops on Mental health at the workplace, power, privilege, and oppression, and feminist leadership for organisations such as YWCA of India, The Gender Lab, Nazaria Arts Collective, etc. with the support of Sachin Shyam Phatak and Tanisha J from our facilitators' community.
Coming Soon 🔜
In November and December, for the United Nations 16 Days of Activism Against Violence Against Women and Girls, we will be talking extensively about building trauma informed systems of support, as well as recommitting to and holding to account the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in the review process in its 30th year. This includes the facilitation of two national-level dialogue sessions (on November 8 and 9) co-organised by One Future Collective, Feminist Manch, The YP Foundation, Rising Flame and UN Women India, in collaboration with feminists engaged in the Beijing+30 review processes from the local to the global.
Under the One Future Festival, we will be facilitating workshops on themes like gender sensitisation and allyship, trauma-informed spaces, etc. with organisations such as Adhyayan Quality Education Services, WeWork India, URJA TRUST, etc.
Want to host a similar workshop on themes of social justice in your organisation? Reach out to us at info@onefuturecollective.org.
OFC Spotlight 💡
As part of our digital community spotlight, we highlight a few stories of impact and contribution. This month under the spotlight, we have:
Artika Raj, Curator and Creator at Agami, a partner organisation for One Future Collective, who has written a deeply insightful article on the mental health crisis faced by those incarcerated in Indian prisons in The Caravan Magazine. You can read the article here.
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Art x Social Justice 🎨
This month, our recommendations are based on themes of collective and personal care, wellbeing, and communities. Click here learn more.
Source for 'Being Well'. Source for 'Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Source for 'Take Care'. Source for “Some years there exists a wanting to escape...” From the Toolbox 🧰
COVID Workers Research Study
This is a research study conducted by One Future Collective, reflecting on the compassion, satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress faced by frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Get Involved ⚙️
Help us germinate feminist social justice leadership in South Asia - learn more, apply, refer an applicant as alum, or sponsor a fellow for the One Future Fellowship.
Read the Civil Society Wellness Principles and share your feedback with us by emailing Vandita Morarka at vandita@onefuturecollective.org by the end of the year!
Sign up to become a member of the Feminist Leadership Hub and access our latest resource on Feminist Governance.
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