A no-cost, transformative capacity-building initiative
Rights defenders are extraordinary. They bring fierce, unwavering energy to advance justice and create liberatory futures for all of us. But without space to stabilize and recover, this energy often leads to burnout, internal conflict, and lost progress.
Resourcing Rights Organizations for a Liberatory Future is our bold response: a fully funded, trauma-informed, resilience-oriented capacity-building initiative for small-to-medium-sized rights organizations working globally.
We’ve launched our first cohort of incredible organizations from across the UK—and the work is already making ripples.
Applications for the next cohort will open in the future. In the meantime, stay connected, follow our progress, and support this growing movement.
This project is made possible through the generous support of our funders and individuals from the Lumos community.
Updates from the Field
Cohort 1 is already underway—and we’re excited to share what’s happening on the ground. Check out our latest blog posts to follow the journey:
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Support This Work
We are still fundraising—quietly but meaningfully—to keep this work alive.
Your support makes a difference:
- $50 supports a 3-week foundational immersion for one rights defender
- $100 adds 8 weeks of facilitated practice
- $1,000 sponsors a defender’s entire journey through the 16-month program
Every gift fuels liberation. Every dollar helps sustain those on the front lines.
About the Program
Resourcing Rights Organizations for a Liberatory Future supports selected organizations through a 16-month, hands-on journey of learning, unlearning, and growth. Each organization receives:
- Three-Week, Six-Hour Foundational Immersion—All staff will participate in an Introduction to the Resilience Toolkit, providing an intersectional, ecologically sensitive framework for identifying stress and trauma responses and implementing real-time regulation skills.
- Eight Weeks of Facilitated Practice Groups—These guided sessions will deepen and sustain staff learning, ensuring embodied resilience practices become an integral part of their organizational culture.
- Eligibility for the Lumos Resilience Toolkit Certification Fellows Program—Each participating organization will select up to two staff members to train as Resilience Toolkit Facilitators, empowering them to integrate and share these practices within their communities and across their fields.
This program is offered at no cost, thanks to generous funders and community support.
The work of justice cannot be sustained by replicating the very systems of oppression we seek to dismantle. It calls for organizations rooted in trust, relational integrity, and the ability to move fluidly between expansive visioning and critical discourse—intrapersonally, interpersonally, collectively, and systemically.
This is not just about surviving. It’s about thriving. And that requires real resourcing.
Questions or Want to Connect?
Contact Juliana Nocker Ferry, Director of Partnership Development. 📧 juliana@lumostransforms.com