Raising Luminaries

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In chapter 1 of our Summer Parent Activist Accelerator, we get radically honest about WHY we seek the initiatives we do - and how to direct our courage and curiosity into collaborative revolution. Visit the full post for transcripts, show notes & bonus downloadable resources.

How to stay responsive to tragedies and current events without losing your shit. Visit the full post for show notes, resources, transcript & a sneak-peek discovery reflection guidebook from the first exploration in our Summer Parent Activist Accelerator. https://raisingluminaries.com/determining-your-anti-values/

How we maintain focus despite the urge to scatter in a panic. Visit the full post for show notes, resources & the transcript.

Revealing the One Unbelievable Secret Mind Control Trick we use to move from helplessness into change-making. Visit the full post for show notes, resources & transcript

Join us this summer for our Summer Collective! Or not! And if you want to, but can’t - here’s a rough framework for what we focus on through the 6 week collective so you can cobble together your own practice. Click here for the show notes & transcription.

How we let competition & hyper-individualism sneak into our parenting,  Why we can still play well with others even if we’re petty, & The one enthusiastic collaborator to watch out for & avoid. Visit the full post for show notes, resources & transcript

Want to make space for mistakes and social disabilities, but your friend is wearing you thin? Enjoy this enthusiastically crappy Friendship Masterclass for Inter-Abled Buddies: How to navigate relationships with folks with social disabilities without getting trampled. Visit the full post for show notes, resources & transcript

Building brave spaces at home to raise kids who can be honest with us.

How to maintain a sense of humor while transforming problematic language with our kids.

How to mind our own damn business and let our kids grow into the leaders our world needs

Why you don’t need to be on social media to be a good ally - and how following a billion activists is probably doing more harm than help.

Want to make a Black or brown friend? Disappointed in the lack of disabled talking points at your party? Wish you could say ‘I’m not homophonic, I have a bisexual neighbor’? Join Ashia & Bellamy and learn how to collect a menagerie of minorities to show off to the people you actually care about.

Saunatina Sanchez of Crafting Sound Meaning uses her Autistic hyperfocus to connect families across cultural divides.

This week my kid made a racist joke that hurt a classmate. Here is what it looks like to respond when our kids are the bigots.

Balancing giving & making our needs known - how we’re changing the ways we show up heading into the year of the Tiger.

More info dumping n’ shenanigans!

Signing off with our last episode of the autumn winter season.

Underlying assumptions, examples of the ‘happily ever after’ mindset, how we’re complicit, and what we can do to resist.

An outtake of our Parent Activist Incubator Winter session, where we learn how to interrupt and reorient for a sustainable parent activist practice.

Why we focus on the deep, slow, quiet work of composting: perspective & foundation-building in the winter.

How we set a season aside to retreat from supremacy culture an social media to build a stronger foundation for the upcoming year.

Why we resist hustle culture year-round, but most importantly during winter

Do the holidays we grew up with align with our family values today? Talking with our kids about the consumerism and competition of the modern Christmas season led to some interesting family decisions.

Why I made the commitment to stop providing free education and emotional labor to white allistics, and the uncomfortable price of that commitment.

That painful, awkward stretch of uncertainty when we’ve gotta show up to get better, but are hesitant to show up because we’re so bad at things. If that makes sense?

When we’re out of spoons and at the precipice of unraveling - what can we take with us on the way to do less harm and survive the fall.

How treating our relationship building with kids as right or wrong, superior or inferior, reinforces a culture of supremacy.

Babbling incoherently over the soothing soundscape of afternoon suburbia.