Position: Healing & Wellness Facilitator
Hours/Pay: 25 - 30 total project hours, and $100/hour
Due Date: June 16, 2021
Asian American Organizing Project is a non-partisan organization led by and for young Asian Minnesotans in the Twin Cities. Through our grassroots organizing efforts and programming, we aim to develop young Asian community leaders to resist oppression and co-create a more just future for their families, schools, communities, and cities.
Asian American Organizing Project is looking for an experienced Healing & Wellness Facilitator to facilitate a retreat over the course of three days in early August geared towards AAOP staff, board, and program leaders centered on organizational change to move towards collective healing. The Healing & Wellness Facilitator will:
- Prepare for the retreat by working with AAOP Wellness team to outline goals and overall structure of the retreat
- Design the activities within the two day retreat, with two days for all program leaders; and one additional day for staff and board
- Facilitate the retreat activities where:
- Attendees will have a better understanding of their own self-care, and how to communicate and build a working, and community-like relationship with each other in this healing space.
- Attendees will have a better understand of systems change, and develop perspectives and skills related to healing, care, wellness, mindfulness, etc.; to use in their professional and personal life at and beyond AAOP
- (Organizational development) Staff/BOD attendees will contribute to the development of AAOP organizational practices to promote wellness, work/life balance, healing, etc.
- Research and select the best platform to deliver and utilize discussion materials
- Create a final report of the key learnings and consensus built from the retreat and list of recommendations to inform organizational wellness practices and policies.
Experience:
- The ideal candidate will be a confident public speaker and a devoted community builder who is up-to-date on the latest tools and resources to hold facilitation spaces.
- They will have background knowledge or experience in organizational development towards wellness and growth.
- They value the dignity of humanity of all people and strive towards an anti-capitalist world.
- They are capable of holding space and working with diverse Asian identities.
Applications will close on June 16, 2021 or until filled. Please submit a resume along with a brief cover letter highlighting experience with the following qualifications to jobs@aaopmn.org.