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5 Ways Gratitude Makes You a Better Leader

August 25, 2020, RAFT Team

What qualities make a leader effective? Most people list things like confidence, integrity, clear communication, decisiveness, and courage. Rarely do they include gratitude on the list. But gratitude ...

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25 Ways to Boost Creativity That Take 5 Minutes or Less

August 11, 2020, RAFT Team

Creativity is good for the brain. Creativity helps you solve problems, boosts your immune system, improves your mental health, and reduces stress. Some even say creativity is a ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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? ...

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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 ...

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#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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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