RAISING LUMINARIES CAREGIVER WORKSHOP

Winter Incubator Scheduling FAQ

  • Let’s be honest. The seasonal collectives aren’t for you.
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  • We reflect and practice the foundations of sustainable care work so you don’t burn out and become someone else’s problem.
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  • If you keep setting yourself on fire to keep others warm, you’ll end up a crispy mess. You’ll eventually let people down in catastrophic ways. But most importantly – you’re already causing damage that you don’t even know about yet.
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  • Whether it’s your kids, those you show up for, or others who follow in your footsteps – you’re leaving vulnerable people who rely on you to deal with the consequences while you hustle forward.
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  • Everything Raising Luminaries creates (particularly our seasonal collectives) is to help progressive caregivers stop harming those they care for under the guise of performative activism, saviorism, and martyrdom.
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  • Stop raising incels. Stop prioritizing comfort over community well-being. Stop doing saviorism, martyrdom, and performative busywork. Stop ignorantly upholding the kyriarchy. 
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  • If you only want to join us for the appearance of getting your shit together, then this isn’t the space for you. But if you genuinely wish to reorient how you show up for others from the roots up, invest the time it takes to be the change you want to see in the world.
  • We run for 6 weeks every winter, starting in early January and continuing through mid-February.
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  • Once or twice a week, new members are invited to join a small, private Zoom discussion to examine a specific strategy and unpack how it connects to our current challenges as caregivers and advocates.
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  • While new and returning members are encouraged to attend the live conversations exploring foundational strategies, we also host a 24/7  asynchronous chat group for members who can’t attend live gatherings. 
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  • Upcoming Winter Incubator Dates:
  • 2025: January 6 – February 9
  • 2026: January 5 – February 8
  • 2027: January 4 – February 7
  • 2028: January 3 – February 6
  • …and so on

 

 

  • After consulting our early registrants, the dates and times for our gatherings are published 12/15. So make sure to register by 12/11 if you’d like us to work around your schedule.
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  • To keep our conversations small and make space for everyone, we frequently break up into smaller cohorts of 2-8 members. Regardless of which group you belong to, you’re welcome to drop in for any and all hangouts – helpful when life gets chaotic and you can’t make it to your regular session.

 

  • How much time you spend with us depends on how much you want to get out of this winter.
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  • Don’t worry – you won’t need to prepare for our gatherings, and there is no homework. Just show up as you are to receive support. 
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  • To stay engaged, I suggest attending at least four out of twelve gatherings over the six weeks to develop relationships within the group and get to know others. Our facilitator is available for about one and a half to two hours during each session. 
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  • If you want the most support and to get the most out of our time together, I encourage first-year members to attend two Zoom sessions each week for the six-week Winter Incubator. 
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  • We also have more ways to connect when you aren’t able to attend live gatherings. Life with kids can get chaotic; we all get sick, and many of our members are managing multiple disabilities. So, we host a 24/7 chat group to stay connected. 
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  • If you ever feel like this is all coming at you too fast, remember that we’ve designed the Winter Incubator specifically for overwhelmed caregivers. If something comes up and you need to step away from active participation, you can defer to a future winter session at any time for no additional cost.

 

  • The winter incubator is for caregivers who feel overwhelmed by the demands of caring for everyone else.
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  • We’re disrupting toxic hustle culture because scrambling to keep up, consume, and produce upholds the kyriarchy we’re fighting to dismantle.
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  • But we’re not doing that here. With our cyclical approach to growth, there is no such thing as ‘falling behind’ here.
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  • Attending at least four of our live virtual gatherings may help you connect and develop supportive relationships. However, we also offer a 24/7 asynchronous chat group and written portal discussion threads for members who need accessibility support, play at a different pace, or can’t attend live gatherings.
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If you ever feel like this is all coming at you too fast, remember that we’ve designed the Winter Incubator specifically for overwhelmed caregivers. If something comes up and you need to step away from active participation, you can defer to a future winter session at any time for no additional cost.

You’ll have online access to the winter portal and all downloadable bonus resources for as long as our portal exists. Year-round access means you can download the discussion guides, guidebooks, and resource library materials at your own pace and access them forever.

  • Our live online gatherings welcome you into a brave space to pause, reorient yourself, and refuel. These spaces help caregivers who feel frustrated, isolated, and overwhelmed practice and allow us to connect with others who understand our challenges and provide real-time support.
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  • These live hangouts are a warm and cozy place to explore basic 101 and intermediate advocacy tools and how these strategies help us navigate our everyday challenges.
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  • Returning members revisiting these strategies are welcome to join our 24/7 chat group. If you need to talk out a problem at 2 am, we’re here for your weird schedule.

 

  • We don’t record our live sessions. Not worrying about being ‘observed’ helps our members share personal stories and challenges without feeling self-conscious.
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  • If you’d like to leave personal messages in our Marco Polo chat group, these recordings last one year before being automatically deleted. You can remove your personal messages from the group anytime, no questions asked.
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  • And at the end of the winter, we close out last year’s chat group to start fresh for our next session.
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  • Most importantly – there is no need to perform, stay anything brilliant, or be charming. We have a ‘no itchy underpants’ rule where you’re encouraged to show up as you are, messy and wearing your coziest pajamas.
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  • If this is your first Incubator, register before December 11th so we can tailor our Zoom schedule, group norms, and level of engagement to your preferences and availability. The goal is to meet once or twice weekly, depending on your needs.
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  • We’re aiming for cozy and intimate conversations to get to know each other. Of course, our kids will interrupt us. We’ll make space for each other’s chaos, and our sessions are not recorded or shared beyond the group.
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  • We use automatically generated live captions on Zoom. Unfortunately, we can’t afford a live ASL interpreter at this time.
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  • If you miss a live hangout, you can still connect with us using the 24/7 chat group whenever that works for you.
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