Regenerative Changemaking
The Regenerative Changemaker Starter Kit: Overcoming Changemaker Burnout
Your first step to working regeneratively—sustaining yourself while creating meaningful change. Designed for passionate changemakers trapped in cycles of burnout, this starter kit provides practical tools to navigate systems designed to burn you out.
The Changemaker's Dilemma: Caught Between Passion and Exhaustion
The Perpetual Cycle
Changemakers often find themselves trapped between their deep commitment to causes they care about and the relentless demands that lead to exhaustion. This cycle isn't accidental—it's built into systems that expect endless sacrifice.
The Hidden Cost
When burnout takes hold, both your wellbeing and your impact suffer. The very change you seek becomes compromised when you're operating from a depleted state. Burnout saps your energy, focus, and motivation - the vital ingredients needed to drive meaningful progress.
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What's Inside Your Starter Kit: Tools for Regenerative Impact
Webinar
A 45 minute guided reflection to uncover the hidden forces driving burnout in changemakers and our unique blueprint for shifting towards regeneration.
Practical tools
5-10 minutes exercises over a series of 10 emails straight into your inbox to apply into your life and start shifting now.
A roadmap
to navigate the systems you’re working within—without depleting yourself.
Recognizing the Signs: Is Burnout Creeping In?
Physical Depletion
Chronic fatigue, sleep disturbances, and frequent illness that doesn't resolve with ordinary rest
Mental Fog
Difficulty concentrating, reduced creativity, and problem-solving abilities that once came naturally
Emotional Distance
Detachment from your cause, cynicism about impact, and diminished sense of accomplishment
Relational Withdrawal
Isolating from colleagues, friends, and support networks when you need them most
Beyond Self-Care: Why Traditional Advice Falls Short
We’ve developed a unique blueprint to help changemakers manage stress, find joy and meaning in their work, and navigate the complex systems they are part of—without burning out.
In the Starter Kit, we walk you through the 4 nested systems needed to fully transform and shift towards a regenerative way of working: BodyMind, Relations, Shadows and Systems.
Maybe you’ve tried every self-care routine, set boundaries, changed jobs, and even relocated—only to find yourself burning out again. You might feel jaded by institutions meant to help the world, yet you can’t seem to find meaning in your work anymore. We’ve been there.
While bubble baths and meditation apps might provide temporary relief, they can't solve a systemic problem. True regeneration requires moving beyond individual self-care to address the structural issues that create burnout in the first place—without abandoning personal practices that sustain you.
The causes we fight for are products of an extractive system—one that even well-intentioned organizations are still part of. This is why self-care alone isn’t enough. If you want to continue contributing to the world without sacrificing your health—and actually thrive—you need a new approach:
Hear from Changemakers Like You:
“I left a lot of jobs because of all the reasons you’re mentioning. It feels validating. I don’t feel that crazy now.”
“I think you guys are spot on. Love that you fill in the dots between climate change and burnout.”
“I feel excitement and validation as you articulate desperate feelings I have had for a long time, yet to bring them up into thoughts—you are doing this—thank you.”
“This gave me a fresh perspective on how individuals can make a meaningful impact without succumbing to burnout—a challenge many of us in academia can relate to.”
“What struck me about this workshop was its holistic approach. Rather than focusing solely on self-care, it provided practical strategies for fostering regenerative practices within personal and professional spheres.”
Who We Are:
In 2017, Marion Brastel and Erinn Woodside met in Iraq working for an International Nongovermental Organisation and bounded straight away around their views of staff welfare, duty of care, the pervasive burnout culture in the sector and how to manage stress in such highly volatile environments. The dream started then, envisioning healthy work cultures so changemakers can provide the best support possible…while staying sane and without burning out!
In 2021, RCM and our signature coaching program, The True Changemaker were born. Since then, we have felt so grateful to support incredible changemakers around the world transform and shift the way they work, regain vitality and go off doing amazing deeds!
As of end of 2025, RCM is a registered non-profit in Finland.
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