Before we can decide where we’re going, it helps to understand where we’ve been.
This session invites participants to step back from the pace of museum work and reflect on the past year through guided journaling and conversation. Together, we’ll explore accomplishments, challenges, strengths, and lessons learned, identifying what we want to carry forward and what we’re ready to leave behind. By making meaning of our experiences, we create a stronger foundation for whatever comes next.
Museum work can be incredibly rewarding; it has the power to educate, inspire, and strengthen our communities. It also asks a great deal of the people who do it. Amid shifting priorities, limited resources, systemic inequities, and the emotional labor of caring for others, it can be difficult to find space to reflect, reconnect with what matters most, and sustain ourselves over time.
This four-part series offers dedicated opportunities to pause, reflect, and move forward with intention. Through guided reflection, practical exercises, and conversation with peers, participants will explore different aspects of sustaining themselves and their work. Rather than focusing solely on individual resilience, we’ll also consider how the realities of museum work shape our ability to thrive, and how sustaining ourselves and one another strengthens our capacity to build museums where both people and communities can thrive.
Participants are welcome to attend one workshop or all four.
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