Taking changemakers from burned out to bright-eyed.
Making change shouldn't mean burning out. Rooted Respite gives social changemakers like you the tools you need to create change while living the rested, inspired, and joyful life you know is possible for the collective and yourself.
Rooted Respite's purpose
To nurture the spiritual and mental well-being in people pursuing systemic social change.
Rooted Respite provides individual coaching, workshops, and community to help you break free from the burnout cycle and compassion fatigue prevalent in social change movements.
Learn more about Rooted Respite
Rooted Respite Offers
Individual Coaching
Trauma-informed burnout coaching that helps you reclaim your life, reconnect with joy, and root yourself in what's most important to you.
Coaching with Taj is available on a monthly basis to give you the flexibility and convenience of getting coaching when you need it.
Monthly Virtual Support Calls
Monthly Community Support Calls are spaces for social changemakers to get some extra support in a space where you don’t have to the answers.
Support Calls are the last Friday of every month (unless listed otherwise) at 3 pm EST. Calls are always free, virtual, confidential, and come as you are.
Workshops & Public Speaking
Taj's experience as a Black transgender man gives him a unique perspective on social change. He is available for keynotes and workshop facilitation.
Topics include burnout prevention for marginalized people, creating compassionate movements, and spotting signs of burnout in your team.
You deserve to live in the world you envision.
You can see it: a world where people have what they need to thrive, where justice, joy, equity, compassion, and healing are central to society. A world where people's intrinsic value matters more than what they produce. You know it's possible.
But when that vision gets clouded by burnout, it takes a colossal amount of effort to hold the possibility of this vision at the forefront of your mind. Things start to feel hopeless. Maybe you start to question whether what you're doing matters.
It matters. You matter.
I've been where you are and worked through the stages of my own burnout cycle. In doing this work, I created a system to help understand how old behaviors, mindsets, and trauma responses interact with the harmful systems ruling our lives to create burnout. I also devised interventions to break free.
You can break free.
Rooted Respite exists to help you not only see your vision, but to live it.
Another world is possible; let’s build it together.
Taj M. Smith, MDiv
Founder
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