We are living in a time of polycrisis, and the best leaders are burning out.
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Are you a social impact leader lying awake at night asking: Am I doing enough? Am I making enough of a difference? How can I possibly keep this up?
You’re caught in a cycle where unjust systems create impossible expectations. You internalize them as personal responsibility, work harder, and drive yourself to exhaustion. Rinse, repeat, and the pressure keeps building.
In Do Your Part, Tessa Bridge helps you understand how your leadership approach makes you vulnerable to burnout, how to challenge the beliefs that make it hard to change, and how to build a way of leading that is both bold and sustainable. Bridge shares research-backed analysis and specific frameworks to help you disrupt hyper-responsibility and make a meaningful impact without sacrificing your health, purpose, or humanity.
The world doesn’t need your exhaustion or your martyrdom. It needs you alive in your work, connected to your purpose, and leading from your full power.
Do Your Part Book Club
This book club is for high achieving and deeply committed leaders who care deeply about building a more just world and are feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and at the end of their rope.
Over four sessions, we'll work through the book's core ideas (hyper-responsibility, moral injury, identity fusion and more) as a group through facilitated peer discussion and live coaching. Each session focuses on one section of the book, and you'll leave with a clearer understanding of what's actually keeping you stuck and something concrete to try that week.
Capitalism depends on keeping us too exhausted to dream and organize. By coming together to challenge some of the deeply held beliefs keeping us in unsustainable patterns we will build our power, reclaim our humanity, and develop the skills we need to build a just world.
You will:
Feel less alone from connecting with a group of like-minded leaders navigating similar struggles.
Understand why change is so hard, even when you already know what you "should" do.
Understand the ways that you are getting in your own way and perpetuating the very things you say you want to be different on your team and in your organization.
Build a way of leading that is both deeply committed and sustainable, so you can be the bold and brave leader you aspire to be.
Four 75-minute sessions, both online and in person
October 28, November 4, November 18, December 2
12:00-1:15 PST - Online via Zoom
6:00-7:15pm PST - In person at Rose City Park Presbyterian Church, 1907 NE 45th Avenue, Portland, Oregon, 97213
Registration includes a copy of the book. Space is limited.
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Praise for Do Your Part
"Tessa's guidance helped me confront and reframe the pressure I feel to handle everything flawlessly and personally, so I could continue doing the education justice work I love in a more sustainable and impactful way."
— Megan, Teacher and Union Organizer“In this practical book, Tessa guides the reader to build knowledge about leadership practices, reflect on their personal approaches, and create action and accountability plans for responsive practices. A must read for any leader who needs a friendly voice to keep them company!”
— Liza Talusan, PhD, author, executive leadership coach, and identity-conscious educator“I wish I’d read this years ago, this is way more than a standard leadership handbook”
— Fran McSweeney, Head of Services, Not for Profit Sector, UK“Tessa understands leaders in the helping profession with great precision; I felt eerily seen in the best way.”
— Carrie Graham Founder of The Church Lab and BridgeBuilders Lab