From Overextended to Intentional: Creating Sustainable Ways of Working & Living
Nonprofit professionals are deeply committed to serving their communities, often balancing competing priorities, limited resources, and a strong sense of purpose. Over time, these demands can lead to overextension, making it challenging to sustain the energy, focus, and wellbeing needed to thrive both personally and professionally.
Join us for this 90-minute interactive session designed to help participants pause, reflect, and reimagine what sustainable ways of working can look like in today’s nonprofit environment. Through practical tools, guided reflection, and meaningful table discussions, we will explore the factors contributing to overwhelm, examine our relationship with work and service, and identify strategies for creating greater clarity, boundaries, and alignment.
Participants will leave with actionable practices and a personalized plan to support their wellbeing, strengthen their impact, and continue contributing to the communities they serve, without sacrificing themselves in the process. By the end of this session, you will be able to:
1. Recognize common patterns of overextension experienced by helping professionals,
2. Assess your current energy levels and identify key sources of depletion and renewal,
3. Apply practical wellbeing strategies that support sustainable ways of working,
4. Reflect on how belonging, support, and workplace culture influence individual and team wellbeing,
5. And commit to one meaningful action that supports your personal and professional sustainability.
Amrita Prakaashana, MEd, DipAdEd
Amrita (um-rit-ta) Prakaashana (she/her) is the Founder, Coach, and Consultant at Artria Consulting, LLC and the Clarity and Connection Circle™ (a free online community). She partners with high-achieving individuals in healthcare, nonprofit, and caregiving professions to navigate career and life transitions with clarity, confidence, sustainable well-being, and joy, while caring for others.
In addition to her coaching practice, Amrita serves as the Director of Well-Being and Belonging – Nursing within a large non-profit healthcare organization. She brings more than 15 years of experience in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB), well-being, leadership development, adult learning, and organizational culture. Throughout her career, she has worked alongside healthcare professionals, non-profit leaders, and community-serving organizations to create environments where people feel valued, connected, and empowered to thrive.
Amrita holds a Master’s degree in Human Resource Development and Adult Education. Based in Rochester, Minnesota, she is also an artist and community education instructor. Working with a variety of metals and mixed materials, her creative practice reflects her belief that reflection, connection, creativity, and self-expression are essential to individual identity, growth, belonging, and thriving communities.
