EA - Grow your Mental Resilience to Grow your Impact HERE - Introducing Effective Peer Support by Inga

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Grow your Mental Resilience to Grow your Impact HERE - Introducing Effective Peer Support, published by Inga on October 8, 2022 on The Effective Altruism Forum. Do you want to: live up to your values: become more fulfilled, and productive? better achieve your personal and career goals? connect to other community members on a deeper level by going on this journey together? We aim to help YOU flourish. Thanks to funding from the Future Fund Regranting Program, we will start "Effective Peer Support" for the EA community. What we do for you Jump on a Zoom Call once a week with a carefully chosen peer for 1:1s and a group of 5-8 like-minded EAs with the same goal, guided by a trained facilitator. Share personal experiences, learn with and from each other, and hold each other accountable. Together, you will boost your productivity and well-being by applying proven psychological techniques: Cognitive behavioral therapy, Accountability, Behavior change, Compassion, Mindfulness, inner-parts work. We choose these techniques because they’ve been shown to be the most effective in increasing resilience, productivity and quality of life, whilst reducing and protecting against anxiety, depression, and stress - or even symptoms of ADHD. We use a plethora of helpful tools, from online materials to apps and workbooks. Our content is bespoke to the needs, problems, and preferences of effective altruists. Overcome perfectionism, procrastination, existential dread, and other psychological burdens that come with attacking the world’s most pressing problems. How it works We ask you about your needs and preferences. We match you up with an exclusive peer group, tools, and mode of support accordingly. You meet your peers for 2h/week for 4-8 weeks to learn new tools, apply them to your life, and share experiences At the end, you likely will be a better version of yourself, live up more to your values and have formed some deep friendships. Places are limited. To avoid missing out, join our waiting list. Our service is free, with no strings attached We won’t share anything, with anyone, without your explicit consent You can quit at any time, no questions asked. Who we are Core team: Dr. Inga Grossmann - Project Lead / Supervision Samantha Robins - Training Amine Challouf - Programs Robert Reason - Research Erin Robertson - Accountability Max Chiswick - Technology WE WANT YOU - Product/Project/Operations Management (Apply now) Our supporters: Therapists and coaches: Ewelina Tur, Damon Pourtahmaseb-Sasi, Hannah Böttcher, Dave Cortright Other contributors: Simon Newstead, Patrick Gruban, Lukas Trotzmuller, Jarred Filmer, David Hartsough, Christian Kleinedamm, John Salter, Helen Hayward, Julia Wise, Steve Thompson, Branimir Dolicki, Yuval Shapira, Ben Williamson, Lucia Purcaru, Gavin Leech Thank you the core team, Lucia Purcaru, Salman Maqbool, Branimir Dolicki, Dave Cortright, Justus Baumann and Simon Newstead who contributed to the grant application. Lucia Purcaru, and Branimir Dolicki for providing helpful advice on this post. Special thanks go to John Salter for introducing us to one core team member and one important collaborator, contributing the most to every stage of the writing process of this post, as well as the grant application, which secured the funding. Thanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn more, please visit nonlinear.org.