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Got a few questions about weave the Summer Luminator into your limited budget, non-existent free time, and foggy brain?
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What would you do with more free time? Using our strategies, members sage an average of 5 hours every week - long after summer ends.
75% of members take advantage of our sliding scale, deferred payment plans, or reciprocate by supporting the group in non-monetary ways.
You don't have to be an activist or leader, we're just community caregivers who want to make a difference without making things worse
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Raising Luminaries hosts two seasonal collectives each year – the Summer Luminator and the Winter Incubator.
Both seasonal collectives run for 6 weeks and provide a member portal and resource library of bite-sized lessons and strategies. Both cover necessary basics to sustain long-term activism without burning out, doing a saviorism, or making things worse for the people you’re trying to support.
The Summer Luminator focuses on transforming intent into action, creating a sustainable pace for our parenting and activism goals, and helps members develop community care strategies based on each member’s unique skills and interests.
In. both collectives, we support each other as we assess our current path, create space for you to decide what needs to change, and support you with strategies to make a deep impact in your unique field of interest.
However, the Summer Luminator invites you to de-center yourself to be an effective self-advocate, accomplice, and collaborator – while the Winter Incubator invites you to pull your attention inward and recognize the way your social power, season of life, and mental health impacts your ability effectively to show up for others.
Unlike the Summer Luminator, (which invites, but does not mandate group participation) the Winter Incubator hinges on active real-time group discussion, space for rest, and slower self-reflection.
In other words, the Summer Luminator is energetic, active, chock full of helpful strategies and lessons, and is designed around busy, irregular travel schedules. The Winter Incubator is a quiet retreat to deeply connect with a small group of people who will hold space for you to re-center and orient yourself – a restful pause to recover and heal before leaping back into action.
Ideally, we can support you through both seasons, as they rely on each other to stay patient with your kids, helpful to your community, and contributing to sustainable, revolutionary change.
Pick the collective that speaks to what you need most. Do you need a quiet break through the winter , or do you need a fun, active, pick-me-up this summer?
Which season is less busy for you? Which would stress you out the least to join?
They’re designed to be cyclical, with our members re-joining year after year, if you want to. There is no ‘one right way’ to get started – what really matters is doing the hard and uncomfortable thing and taking the next easiest step towards getting a grip.
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Our 6-week collective is designed to come along with you!
Either you can wait until you get back, or access the Summer Member Portal from your phone any time of year – including all video, audio, and downloadable resources. Our chat group uses the free Marco Polo app, so you can stay connected with us even when reception is spotty.
The only ‘time sensitive’ material are our six weekly live hangouts, which are optional drop-in events that about half of our members choose to join. Other than a connecting real-time conversation, we don’t cover anything in these hangouts that we don’t discuss in the chat group and in the member portal.
The only ‘live’ events are our casual weekly hangouts on Zoom, which are totally optional, and drop-in as needed.
The real connection comes over our asynchronous chat group, which you can dip into for a few minutes at a time while going on a walk, cooking dinner, or dropping the kiddo off at camp.
Each of the six weeks, we release a new discussion chapter with bite-sized lessons and resources to help you pace yourself. After they’re released, you can access any of these resources at your own pace.
We gather together because we can’t keep up with the demands on our time – and that’s not gonna change until we create strategies to catch up.
With lifetime access to our resources, invitations to future summer collectives, optional drop-in hangouts, and our asynchronous chat group, there is just no way to fall behind.
If life really throws you for a loop – you’ll have lifetime access to the resources and summer portal if you need to take a break and come back to hang out next summer.
You’ll have online access to the summer portal all year, for as long as it exists – that means access to the videos, downloads, guidebooks, and resource library so you can enjoy them at your own pace.
I do temporarily take down some of our lessons and resources during the enrollment period as we welcome new members. This way I can upgrade and improve our material and release each of our six chapters throughout the summer to help everyone pace themselves.
Our live Zoom hangouts are completely optional – designed to help members who feel more comfortable getting real-time feedback from others.
These live hangouts are a blast – but most of our conversations happen in the discussion threads or the asynchronous chat-group. Even if you have questions or ideas to share at 2am on Saturday mornings, we’re here for your weird schedule.
Our live drop-in hangouts are not recorded.
In our chat group, you can leave your recordings of video or audio up for the whole duration of the summer, or delete your messages any time you feel necessary.
At the end of the summer, we close out last year’s chat group to start a fresh one with new members.
We accept new members on a rolling basis during our enrollment period, which typically starts in May.
If you would like to get first dibs, join the Summer waitlist.
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