Impact isn't easy.
Whether you’re an academic, a climate champion, or a community builder… you do what you do because you care about making a difference. But working in emotionally-demanding settings comes with unique mental health challenges.
Impact-driven professionals are increasingly predisposed to anxiety, depression, burnout, and trauma. Institutional support can feel perfunctory and impersonal, and meditation apps can only do so much!
That’s where we come in. BeDo provides emotional learning opportunities and wellbeing support tailored to the needs of impact-driven professionals. By nurturing our capacity to care for ourselves and others, we can sustain the effort needed to tackle today’s biggest issues.
We share your values.
Curiosity: Our approach is reflexive, interdisciplinary and evidence-based. We are continuously informed by emerging research and the experiences of our community.
Inclusivity: We strive to provide equal access to culturally diverse resources for wellbeing. Our approach is rooted in decoloniality, anti-racism, equity and social justice.
Compassion: We are committed to serving others and choose to consciously turn towards the emotional experience of impact-driven work.
Community: We work better when we collaborate with others, and we recognize that human connection is essential to wellbeing.
Let's work together.
We convene industry experts to share groundbreaking insights and evidence-based practices with the aim of building a more resilient impact-driven workforce.
BeDo offers a variety of digital and in-person workshops, courses, and consultancy services addressing the unique wellbeing needs of impact-driven professionals. Whether you’re an independent researcher seeking supplementary training, or a team leader looking to diversify your organization’s wellbeing strategy, we’re here to help.
Our signature workshops include:
- Compassionate Interviewing for Qualitative Research
- Trauma-Informed Methodologies
- Climate Distress: Navigating Eco-Anxiety and Resilience Strategies
- Auto-Reflexivity: Researcher Mental Health and Safety
- Mindfulness in Service of Humanitarianism
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Meet The Team
Daillen
Daillen is a wellbeing educator, nonprofit director, and yoga teacher. Having lived and worked with throughout Central America, she specialises in sustainable agriculture and nutrition in Guatemala. Her research also looks at the operationalization of compassion in social science methodologies. She holds teaching certifications in Applied Compassion and Traumatic Stress Studies, from Stanford University’s Center for Compassion & Altruism Research & Education (CCARE) and the Trauma Research Foundation (TRF), respectively. She trained and worked as a domestic violence counsellor in Southern California before moving to Edinburgh, Scotland to pursue a postgraduate degree in International Development. She maintains a long-standing passion for the arts and enjoys exploring the Scottish Highlands with her golden retriever Banjo.
DAILLEN CULVER
Megan completed her PhD in International Development at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on themes of human displacement, resilience, and wellbeing. Working across multiple sectors over the years, including governmental, academic, and humanitarian, she has lived in multiple countries, including Afghanistan, Kenya, Japan, the UK, and South Korea. A certified Life Coach, she also has training in Psychological First Aid in post-crises contexts; cross-cultural care for mental health & depression; and strategies for mitigating vicarious traumatisation. Originally from Canada, she loves all outdoor activities as well as spending quality time with her rescue cat, Pancake.
MEGAN DOUGLAS
Megan
