RAISING LUMINARIES WINTER COLLECTIVE

Stop Spiraling &
Smash The Kyriarchy

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Struggling to keep up with the needs of your kids & community?
Learn how to keep others warm without setting yourself on fire.

can't catch up?

Falling behind on work, health, and time with your kids. It never feels like you're giving enough.

low on energy?

You don't have enough time or support. You need easy ways to recharge.

feeling unbalanced?

You're already a rubber ball wound tight with layers of exhaustion and resentment. Adding more bands isn't the solution!

stop making this so damn hard

Join The Winter Incubator

Join up with a group of caregivers for our annual 6-week workshop to practice recharging strategies without letting down those you care for.

Going into the Winter Incubator, I was recovering from a year of severe burnout. I had slowly been learning how to be kinder to myself and make space for rest, but I knew I was still missing something.

The Incubator helped me identify many of those missing pieces. I had gotten stuck in my head, but hearing other people’s perspectives on rest, recovery, and recentering jump-started my thinking. The Incubator is helping me integrate rest, play, and work in a sustainable way so I can show up as I want to for my family and community.

Shannon B.S.

Climate Justice Activist, Science Educator, Parent

Enrollment is full. Our next session starts January 2026

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RAISING LUMINARIES CAREGIVER WORKSHOP

Winter Incubator General FAQ

What is the Winter Incubator?

The Winter Incubator is an annual six-week workshop hosted by Raising Luminaries designed for parents, educators, and caregivers who feel overworked and untethered from the support communities they need to keep going.
In a society that divides caregivers with competition, production, and hyper-independence, this is our chance to connect, share ideas, and practice receiving what we need to care for others.
Gathering for small-group discussions, we create the space and support you need to juggle advocacy, life, and care work. Learn how to weave your dedicated to social justice, equity, and decolonization into your care work.

How is the Winter Incubator different than the Summer Luminator?

Raising Luminaries hosts two seasonal collectives each year – the Summer Luminator and the Winter Incubator.
What both collectives have in common:
> Run for 6 weeks and provide a member portal and resource library of bite-sized lessons and strategies.
> Connect like-minded caregivers so we don’t have to do this work alone
> Cover vital basics to sustain long-term activism without burning out, doing a saviorism, or making things worse for the people you’re trying to support.
In both collectives, we create space for you to recognize what needs to change and provide strategies to make a deeper impact on the issues you care most deeply about.
What’s different about the Winter Incubator:
The Winter Incubator encourages you to pull your attention inward, creating space to reorient and reset your habits.
We invite you to examine your positionality in activism and care work, incorporating your unique abilities and access to privilege in the complex fight for justice.
In our time together, investigate how we are each complicit in upholding the kyriarchy, and develop strategies to change our behavior toward more sustainable, joyful, guilt-free action.
The Summer Luminator invites you to de-center yourself to be an effective self-advocate, accomplice, and collaborator. We practice turning your attention toward others – determining who you are best suited to support, and how. The Winter Incubator invites you to pull your attention inward to learn how to take advantage of your social power, season of life, and capacity to effectively show up for others.
Why we change our tactics in Winter
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, slower self-reflection, and integrating tiny changes into specific chapters of your life.
Even thriving trees can’t bear fruit all year round. The Winter Incubator creates a quiet retreat to gather your marbles and re-assess your approach to care work. Learn how to disrupt capitalism and hustle culture without hiding under the blankets and isolating yourself from the communities who need you.
To be the best caregiver you can be, ideally, we can support you through both seasons, covering very different goals and strategies as you practice revolutionary justice work.

Which should I join first - the Summer Luminator or Winter Incubator?

Pick the collective that speaks to what you need most.
> Do you need a break or do you need active, motivation to kick yourself into gear?
> Which season is less busy for you?
> Which season would stress you out the least to join?
> What does your gut tell you?
Both collectives are designed to be cyclical, with past members invited to rejoin us year after year.
There is no ‘one right way’ to get started. What matters is getting honest about what needs to change, and then taking the next courageous step.

My life is chaos - what if I just can't take on another...thing?

When won’t you feel overwhelmed? Let’s be honest. Your life isn’t going to get any simpler. When you’re too scattered to think straight, you’ll always take on more than you can handle.
Wrangling kids, work, and a world that’s literally on fire – we’re here to help you get a grip without drowning in everybody else’s demands, so you can give them what they need.
We’ll help you feel less overwhelmed now and in the future, no matter what complicated horrors await next.
However – are you up to your neck in crisis?
> Will you miss more than half our live hangouts?
> Would the lowest cost on our sliding scale prevent you from paying for rent or medicine?
> Is the car you live in currently on fire?
If so – you have more urgent things to attend to! Join us next year.

Stop Spiraling & Smash The Kyriarchy