A Luminary Braintrust Collab Lab Experiment
Oh Shit! What Now?
Oh shit. What now?
A collaborative workshop & starter map for scared parents learning how to resist threats to our communities.
Register by 9/19/25 so we can schedule our workshop around you
Luminary Braintrust members – make sure you’re logged in to view the booking button above.
What is a Collaborative Workshop?
Raising Luminaries Collaborative Workshops are small-group virtual events on Zoom.
During our interactive workshop, members work together to reflect on common parenting challenges, brainstorm solutions, and share ideas.
Share your challenges. Share your ideas.
In our 'Oh Shit. What Now?' workshop, we'll reflect on the challenges of parenting through the collapse of civil liberties and institutions that we used to rely on to keep our kids safe.
In our live virtual workshop, we'll cover:
Quick self-regulation practices so you don’t cause more harm when jumping in
5-minute actions you can take from home (even baby-wearing and sleep-deprived)
Simple ways to connect with others doing the work so it’s not on your shoulders alone
A simple Oh Shit, What Now? flow chart to keep for when panic hits and you need something to keep you moored
Who should join us?
Are you a parent feeling a little… panicked and overwhelmed about :::waves hands at everything:::
Do you feel like gosh, it would be nice if someone could just hold my hand and walk me through what I’m supposed to do here?
No worries! We got you.
How it works
As a participant, you’ll be guided through a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure map to get a grip and find the next easiest action tailored to your personal energy level, social needs, and risk tolerance.
- Dates: Register by 9/19/25 and we’ll choose a time to meet that works for the most people.
- Join us on Zoom while nursing, on your lunch break, or while hiding in the pantry from your kids.
- Duration: We’ll gather for 1 hour to outline challenges, strategize, and chart action ideas.
- Recordings: Sessions are not recorded at this time, but we may host a second session if we get a lot of interest.
- Confidentiality & Consent – Since we’ll be discussing personal challenges, we ask that all members keep personal details shared during our workshop in the group, and disclose private details of others’ personal stories outside the workshop.
- Cost: Free to the public
- Registration prioritizes active Luminary Braintrust members, with any remaining spots open to our Ignition Notes subscribers.
Who facilitates this workshop?
Tangled Roots Caregiver Collaborative
Alison Ledgerwood [she/her]
Alison is a behavioral scientist who investigates the contextual factors that shape people’s likes and dislikes, as well as how people think about hierarchical social systems. Her methodological and metascientific interests focus on collaboratively developing, testing, and sharing methods and practices that make science more open, inclusive, and informative.
Raising Luminaries
Ashia Ray [they/them]
In Raising Luminaries spaces, we root our learning and advocacy in transformative justice, disability justice, and relationship-based collective liberation. As a multiracial, neurodivergent class migrant who’s navigated life at the intersections of targeted and privileged identities, I know how to hold space for complexity: for parents who are powerful in some ways, targeted in others, and still trying to figure out how to survive. Together, we’ll focus on working within our capacity and focusing our scattered floodlight into a laser-beam of sustainable action.
Help others get unstuck
Leave a comment and tell us - what does your doom-loop look like?
Your answers will shape our workshop and help other parents get unstuck.
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