How a Gratitude Practice Can Build Resilience
July 28, 2020, RAFT Team
Gratitude and resilience go hand in hand. These two qualities are one of the best ways to spiral your life upward towards more peace, more satisfaction, and greater ...
What Happens at a RAFT Advocate Workshop?
July 13, 2020, RAFT Team
Advocates who work with domestic and sexual violence survivors face many challenges. Supporting survivors requires focus, compassion, patience, and emotional output. All this takes energy — often more ...
How to Manage Stress That Comes With Change
June 30, 2020, RAFT Team
Change isn’t always easy. In fact, it’s often scary. It can even feel at times like change is impossible. So how do you manage stress that comes with change? ...
Ending White Racism is Self-Care
June 10, 2020, Jeremie Miller
The following is a message to White Advocates from a former RAFT Team Member. Read her message to Black Advocates HERE. When recorded acts of racial violence surface ...
#BlackLivesMatter: A Foundation of Self-Care
June 10, 2020, Jeremie Miller
The following is a message to Black Advocates from a former RAFT Team Member. Read her message to White Advocates HERE. “Could there be anything stressing you out ...
The Importance of Supporting DV / SV Advocates
June 8, 2020, RAFT Team
With the right support, we can all go further. That’s why here at RAFT we seek to support advocates in building resilience to compassion fatigue and burnout so ...
Leaders Who Serve Succeed
May 25, 2020, RAFT Team
Attitude is contagious, and a positive one allows organizations to flex with challenges and grow with change. How does an organization develop a generally positive attitude? It all ...
5 Keys to Learning Your Own Value
May 11, 2020, RAFT Team
How you value yourself shows up in how you treat yourself. That’s a big statement. Let’s start with the basics. You probably treat the people around you pretty ...
5 Steps to Saying YES to the Things You Love
May 4, 2020, RAFT Team
Many people have an aversion to boundaries. They’re hard to determine, all about “no,” and difficult to enforce. Today we’d like to flip that thinking on its head. ...
15 Tips to Get the Most From Your Online Conference
April 20, 2020, RAFT Team
Virtual meetings provide great opportunity to move things forward. And we’re learning some great lessons as we move more towards the online space. Hour-long meetings can be replaced ...