ANIMAL JUSTICE ACADEMY LUNCHTIME LIVE:
Handling the Pain of Being an Animal Advocate
with Kimberly Carroll

When you’re an animal advocate, you’re bound to face a lot of emotional pain… Whether it's seeing the graphic images, anger at all the apathy, overwhelm from the million and one things you think you should be doing, or the loneliness of not even being understood by your close friends and family.

In this workshop, our AJA Director Kimberly Carroll puts on her coach for changemakers hat and teaches us some tools for navigating the heaviness of doing animal protection work.

We'll explore:

• avoiding burnout by having routines for processing pain
• how not to get traumatized by graphic imagery
• cathartic tools every activist should have
• the boundaries you need to put into place

Come with pen and paper and ready to participate in this session!

*We invite folks to have their video on during this event to enhance the sense of community, but it’s not mandatory

About Kimberly Carroll: 

Kimberly Carroll is a coach for changemakers, a campaigns strategist with Animal Justice and director of the Animal Justice Academy, as well as a director with the Toronto Vegetarian Food Bank. Kimberly brings her background as a television host and producer, as well as her diplomatic and strategic skills as a coach to animal advocacy. Besides her current roles, she co-created the original “Why love one but eat the other?” transit ad campaign in Canada and was one of the founders of Mercy For Animals Canada -- helping bring the first undercover farmed animal investigations to television. As a coach, Kimberly helps activists, social entrepreneurs, and mission-driven leaders who want to make a bigger difference in the world with the inner shifts, high-performance habits, and strategies to take their important work to the next level. She’s helped empower thousands of animal advocates and counselled those in high-stress activist positions like undercover investigators. Kimberly also endeavours to use her privilege and platform for environmental activism, democratic reform, and to amplify Indigenous voices and those of other underrepresented groups.