The Rest Rebellion--Sustainable Impact Requires Strategic Rest- IN PERSON

This session offers nonprofit leaders a rare opportunity to transform team sustainability during sector turbulence. This energizing two-hour workshop cuts through typical self-care platitudes to deliver immediately applicable strategies from Breakthrough Birmingham's journey to a thriving multigenerational team. Discover how strategic rest practices actually enhance mission delivery rather than competing with it. If you're weary of choosing between staff wellbeing and organizational impact, this session provides the practical blueprint you've been seeking.

In this session you will learn how to:

• Identify how strategic rest practices can enhance rather than compete with mission delivery.
• Assess current organizational approaches to sustainability during sector turbulence.
• Develop scaled rest strategies that work effectively for different organization sizes, from solo operations (1-2 staff) to medium-sized teams.
• Design a customized sustainability blueprint that responds to your specific organizational context.
• Create actionable team-care practices that strengthen mission impact during challenging periods.
• Apply practical approaches to transform the false dichotomy between wellbeing and productivity in order to establish rest as a priority rather than an afterthought.

About your trainers:

Mariohn Michel brings extensive education experience to her role as Executive Director of Breakthrough Birmingham. Her background spans urban NYC schools, where she analyzed data to improve curriculum and parent involvement, and rural Alabama classrooms as a Teach for America corps member. With a B.S. in Secondary Social Studies Education from Florida International University, Mariohn balances her leadership with traveling, writing, and spending time with her loved ones.

Hattie O'Hara is growing Breakthrough Birmingham through thoughtful relationships and strategic storytelling. She currently serves as Development Manager, where she is helping donors reverse education inequity through expanding individual giving and citywide partnerships. Before Breakthrough, she served as Assistant Director of Service-Learning and Community Partnerships at her alma mater, Birmingham-Southern College. She has also worked with the Global Village Project, a middle school for refugee girls in Atlanta, and the Birmingham Education Foundation. When she isn’t at work, Hattie is most likely taking a long walk, planning a trip, or working on the next episode of her Instagram series “One Week In Birmingham”.