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Luminary Brain Trust
Collaborator Laboratory
TRANSITION LAB
Our Latest Experiment
Whether it's small transitions like ending screen time or going to bed, or big transitions like heading to middle school, kids need our help with transitions.
This autumn, we explore strategies, resources, and tools to help our kids manage change without melting down.
More From The Collab Lab
Lots of these are hosted on our old channels (Raising Luminaries Patreon, Facebook groups, etc.) and you may need to request access if you weren’t a member when I created those spaces.
Newer LBT members, please ping me if you hit a ‘members-only’ wall. Most of these spaces are inactive, but I can still add you so you can view the content.
2024
Parenting Through Uncertainty
How to keep showing up for your kids and community - even as the world falls apart. Co-hosted by Raising Luminaries & Come Back To Care
2024
Autumn Hangouts
Gathering twice monthly from September through November to tackle your current parenting challenges
2024 On Hiatus
Do-Gooder's Guide To Sabotage
A simple guide to destroying everything and everyone you care about.
2024 - Present
Spring Hangouts
Gathering twice monthly from March through May to tackle your current parenting challenges
2024 - Present
Real Kids Review Books
Updating our kidlit analysis reviews so they are now #OwnVoices book reviews by real kids.
2023 ARCHIVED
Healing Generational Trauma With A Somatic Abolitionist
Teaming up with Nat Vikitsreth of Come Back To Care to collect our marbles as we parent through impending doom.
2023 Archive
Disrupting Generational Trauma
Collecting our own baggage before we pass it on to our kids
2023 - Present
Critical Reading Guide For Kids
Investigate the implicit messages in your bookshelf together with this critical reading workbook for kids
2022 - Present
Parenting Challenge Board
Vent, commiserate, add your ideas & vote for which challenges we could tackle next.
2022 - Present
Kids Advocacy Activities
Art & exploration activities for rainy days home with the kids
2022 - Present
Family Action Toolkits
Storybooks, discussion guides & reflection activities for kyriarchy-smashing kids.
2022 - Present
Busy Parent's Guide To Getting Sh*t Done
Workshop refresher on getting started and keeping going. Hosted annually in the spring.
2021-2022
Raising Luminaries Podcast
I tried to do a podcast and ended up just running out of breath and giggling a lot.
2021
4 Ways to Fight Ableism With Kids Books
Workshop to discuss disability justice with young children.
2021
Single Parenting In A Post-Apocalyptic Hellscape
Calls to action single parents and accomplices who want to build a better world for single parent families
2022 - Present
Resource Library
Central compendium of tools, templates, and resources for parent activists
2020-Present
Dismantling Supremacy
Reflection prompts & discussion questions to examine supremacy culture within our communities and ourselves.
2020-Present
Friday Failure Party
Try hard things, fail spectacularly, get back up. Let's celebrate what we learned! Now evolved into the Friday Failure Padlet.
2020-Present
Bookshop Collections
The best Books For Littles book recommendations, sorted by age and topic
2017-Present
Monthly Resource Roundups
Events calendar with curated kids books & conversation starters to channel despair into kid-friendly action. Now evolved into our Family Action Toolkits
2020-2022 Archived
Initaitives In Action
Open discussion sharing what we're working on and how we're progressing. Now evolved into the Monthly Quick Actions & Collab Lab
2020-2021 Archived
Luminary Lessons
A year of homeschool curricula orchestrated by the inhabitants of Bumblebee Hollow
2020 Archived
Student Ignition Society
Education activists modeling progressive social change in early childhood education throughout the US.
2020 Archived
Wee Chalk The Walk
Music, books & talking points to start talking with kids about racial injustice in partnership with Wee The People, MassArt Center ofr Community Art & Raising Luminaries
2019-2022 Archived
Weekly Open Thread
Discussion series hosted on the now-archived LBT Facebook group, which has since evolved into the Failure Party, Little Wins, Collab Lab, and Winter Incubator
2019-2022 Archived
Do Less
Open discussions on the impossible load we're managing to prioritize our time and attention on deep work. Now evolved into the Summer Luminator.
2020-2022 Archived
Parenting Is Praxis
Open discussion on how we're normalizing kind and courageous action through our own behavior and interactions with our kids.
2019-2022 Archived
Grown Up Book Club
Discussions sharing the books we're reading and what we're learning
2019-2020 Archived
Pod-Mapping Discussion
Reflection prompt series on building relationships for collaborative care
2018 Archived
Smashing Wealth Inequality
Article series on strategies & kids books to smash wealth inequality in a single generation.
2016 - 2020 Archived
Author Spotlights
Series of articles on authors creating coruageous stories that fill an enormous gap in representation
2014 - 2023 Archived
Book Collections
Curated book collections with short articles on why we need to have hard conversations with kids
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