RADICAL
PRAXIS:
Support, affirmation, & community for parents who are courageously embracing a new parenting paradigm
ARE YOU SECRETLY WHITE KNUCKLING YOUR GENTLE PARENTING?
(eg, even though you’re calm on the outside, your insides don’t match your outsides)
HOLISTIC NERVOUS SYSTEM SUPPORT FOR PARENTS
(can’t be forced, can’t be rushed, and how nice would it be to co-regulate from your own genuine regulation?)
affirming & compassionate:
PERMISSION FOR YOU TO BE YOURSELF & FOR YOUR KIDDOS TO BE THEMSELVES
(psycho-education for parents so they finally understand their child’s behaviors, & can engineer skillful responses that better fit both parent’s and child’s needs)
TRAUMA-INFORMED SCAFFOLDING FOR CYCLE BREAKING & GENERATIONAL HEALING
“As children develop, their brains ‘mirror’ their parent’s brain. In other words, the parent’s own growth and development, or lack of those, impact the child’s brain. As parents become more aware and emotionally healthy, their children reap the rewards and move toward health as well.”
— Dr. Daniel Siegel
CONSCIOUS PARENTING
Parenting in an affirming, peaceful, responsive, compassionate, conscious way can feel HARD and EXHAUSTING.
Shifting patterns, deconstructing generational cycles, rewiring our own nervous systems and triggers is WORK.
In a collectivist (village) paradigm, support is essential, and negating support can be it’s own indicator of unhealed trauma.
Conscious parenting is metabolically intensive. You need a place to rest. You need support.
DEEP PARENTING EGO WORK
We can feel powerless and stuck when it comes to conflict, meltdowns, and tantrums - we don’t want to revert to consequences/old school parenting tactics, but what can we do???
All the books we’ve read don’t give concrete advice, or don’t seem to work. Despite our best efforts, we find ourselves resorting to the familiar patterns we are trying to shift.
Radical Praxis makes us excellent detectives and spelunkers. You will build skill at discovering the core issue. We work in the “heart of the cave” instead of getting distracted by chasing surface-level behaviors.
AT THE FOREFRONT
We’re the pioneers, we’re actively creating a new paradigm. Bushwhacking a trail is…hard and lonely work.
And it’s also a space of the unknown and uncharted. It can feel like we’re failing because we know what NOT to do, but we’re unclear on what to do instead.
What is the right response? I’ve tried everything and I feel myself about to lose my patience!
Radical Praxis is that missing piece, of helping you come into creative and abundant solutions and sense-making of your unique family.
THE MISSING VILLAGE
We can feel alone and misunderstood as family, friends, other parents, and teachers judge us, doubt us, challenge us, and directly contradict us.
We need reassurance and orientation as we courageously attempt something new and radical.
We are beginning to realize that parenting in this way requires a commitment to self growth, self awareness & healing the self.
NURTURANCE FOR YOU
We realize it takes a ton of bandwidth to hold space for our kids’ big feelings, to not explode when we get triggered, and to let them be their spicy, loud, energetic, messy selves without feeling like it’s really bad/wrong/scary somehow.
We can, as parents, get so stressed, that we feel a longing for our own mother despite being adults, a longing for a safe home base.
ON-GOING EMERGENCE + EXPERIMENTATION
Radical Praxis is a high touch, profoundly supportive, and affordable place where you can get the expert, neuroaffirming support, consistency, patience, time, and environmental scaffolding you need to move into ease and confidence with a new parenting paradigm.
You can return week after week, continuing to seek, to refine, to get support, to get orientation, validation, and the magical expansion of strength, endurance, and increased bandwidth that co-regulation with like-minded adults organically brings.
WE REALIZE THAT SUCCESSFUL RESPECTFUL PARENTING REQUIRES A COMMITMENT TO OUR OWN INNER WORK AS PARENTS.
-CELESTYNA BROZEK WILD
RADICAL PRAXIS INCLUDES:
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Monthly Parenting Teaching
A monthly workshop - teaching new strategies or techniques, sharing information, topics will address common parenting issues through the lens of Radical Praxis values
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Weekly Group Coaching
Once a week live group coaching. Calls are recorded and added to the membership archive with #topictags
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Personalized Text Support
Can’t make the group coaching calls? Text or voice memo up to 2x/week and receive a reply within 48 hrs.
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Grief Circles + Personal Grief Practice
It’s a grief-phobic culture we live in AND I have found nothing like grief work to restore access to energy and deep rest for parents.
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Regulation + Replenishment Room
Semi-monthly group offering designed to soothe, regulate, restore and replenish parental nervous systems.
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Radical Reciprocity Practice
A reciprocity practice acknowledges the value, service, and work you are receiving and benefiting from.
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Bonus Resources
Worksheets, e-books, and more on topics like spacious parenting, a neuroaffirming understanding of ODD/PDA
For parents who parent radically differently and are tired of feeling defensive, misunderstood, and alone.
For parents who want to support and accept their child, not change and control their child.
PARENTING PRAXIS Workshop Series
a monthly workshop
SAMPLE TOPIC LIST:
a healthy + neuroaffirming approach to safely building distress tolerance for both parents + kids
integrating your parent self and your non-parent self, integrating children into our lives in a way that feels spacious, congruent and doesn’t subsume our individuality - or theirs
how to parent ODD/PDA children - pragmatic & neuroaffirming strategies
what is low demand parenting and how to make it work for you
a critical post-holiday ritual for parents
how to recognize and survive parenting burnout
nervous system regulation strategies for parents and children
reparenting and inner child work for less triggered parenting
neuroaffirming parenting principles for neurodivergent children
the magic of changing your languaging and tone - how to communicate your way into relating that feels radically different
What is emergent parenting? 5 principles + 5 pragmatic applications
Meltdowns, tantrums, and conflict - how to “keep your seat” and parent radically differently from traditional parenting
COCOON
Group Coaching + Nurturance
weekly 1.5 hr group coaching calls
a group coaching session every week (4 per month!)
bring all your parenting questions/sticking points/struggles
a non-judgmental, affirming, unshaming, safe space for support - especially support of affirming parenting styles
it’s like having access to a private parenting coach!
the sessions are recorded and the replays are available in an archive with #topictags
can’t make the coaching calls due to scheduling conflicts? read on, there’s a solution for you!
TEXT/VOICE MEMO SUPPORT
access to individual asynchronous coaching
created to support those who cannot make the live coaching sessions
submit up to 2 questions per week via voice memo, text or email and Celestyna will get back to you within 48 hrs.
questions may be used for future workshop topics
“It's interesting - I really like when we send messages back and forth, I listen back to them for prompts on what to journal about and that's when I'm most successful at journaling about feelings and deeper stuff.“ - S.F.
Radical Praxis values are:
neuro + gender affirming
non-pathologizing
unshaming + non-judgmental + inclusive
respectful + compassionate
informed by indigenous wisdom and collectivist culture
recognize children’s full humanity and equality
anti-consequence, anti-punishment, anti-compliance
pro authenticity, authentic expression, organic development
questioning neurotypical, patriarchal, hierarchical, supremacist, capitalist, colonized norms, values, standards
prioritize building relational skill, emotional skill, and communication skill
intentionally outside the reductionist, harmful, & outdated medical model
monthly workshop
4 coaching sessions/wk
personal weekly asynchronous support
reciprocity practice
massive parenting shifts
deep nervous system work that ripples out past parenting into everything
new parenting skills
ending traumatic generational patterns
healthier family dynamics
happier children
deep nurturance for *you*
for $49/mo
lifetime access for free
rad·i·cal
/ˈradək(ə)l/
adjective
1.
(especially of change or action) relating to or affecting the fundamental nature of something
prax·is
/ˈpraksəs/
noun
FORMAL
practice, as distinguished from theory.
It takes time, patience, consistency & environmental support to reshape our nervous system and re-pattern our parenting. There is no quick fix or magic pill.