Resilience & Wellbeing Training Program for NGO Leaders
Company Description
InnerSprings is a mental health and wellbeing company helping people in high-pressure environments build healthier and more sustainable ways of working and living. Our initial focus is on humanitarian and social-impact leaders and professionals.
About the Program
InnerSprings is developing a practical resilience and wellbeing programme for leaders working in demanding humanitarian and social-impact environments. Running for 4 weeks theprogramme includesweekly live sessions plus an in-person physical wellbeing experience.
The people leading these organizations often carry significant responsibility. They may be responsible for their teams, organizational survival, funding, programmes, communities and families, while also being the people others turn to when something goes wrong.
For some leaders, this means receiving difficult news repeatedly, supporting distressed staff, hearing stories of trauma from the communities they serve, responding to crises and carrying the emotional weight of other people's experiences.
Over time, this can contribute to chronic stress, burnout, compassion fatigue and secondary traumatic stress . The challenge is therefore not simply that leaders have "too much work."
It can also involve:
constantly being available; difficulty setting boundaries; feeling responsible for everyone; difficulty trusting or delegating; team challenges; funding and organizational uncertainty; carrying other people's emotional pain; family and relationship responsibilities; repeatedly solving other people's problems; lack of support; inadequate rest and recovery; and feeling guilty when prioritizing themselves.
Innersprings exists to help leaders understand what is draining their capacity, recognize the patterns contributing to stress and burnout, and begin building a healthier and more sustainable way of leading.
The Central Idea
"You cannot pour from an empty cup."
For Innersprings, we want leaders to examine the relationship between what they give and what gives back to them.
A leader may spend their days pouring into:
Their team → their organization → their community → their family → their relationships → other people's problems
While rarely asking:
Who pours into me?
The program therefore explores:
What am I constantly giving? What is constantly taking from me? What am I carrying? What actually belongs to me? Where do I receive support? Who can I call when I need help? What happens when I rest? Why might I feel guilty about taking care of myself? What happens when the person everyone depends on also needs support?
The goal is not to encourage leaders to care less.
It is to help them care and lead without continually depleting themselves.
Who we are targeting.
The first cohort is specifically for leaders of humanitarian, refugee-led and social-impact organizations.
Potential participants include:
Executive Directors; Founders and Co-founders; Team Leads; Programme Directors or Managers; Operations or Senior Managers; and Other people carrying substantial leadership responsibility.
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