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How do people not burn out from political organizing (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 4 months ago by pickleddcherries@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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I've been an organizer for only 2+ years and I feel like I'm already psychologically cracking dude the pressure from internal and external sources, the persecution, the stress, I'm dying 😭 how does anyone keep this up I'm actually going through it

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[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

An organization needs to account for this within its structure. Having recruitment goals and a clear onboarding and political education program allows you to choose strategies that support scaling up. There needs to be an even distribution of reproductive labor within the organization to prevent certain members bearing the brunt of the labor in unsustainable ways, and also new people coming in and being delegated tasks to free up more senior organizers to have a more manageable workload.

The reality is that until you are collecting dues and or fundraising to pay a couple of people to be full time professional organizers, it is really challenging to navigate and avoid burn out. The only way to mitigate it is a balance of choosing projects that are not beyond your organizing capacity while prioritizing recruitment and onboarding and political education.