Raising Radical Kids
Parenting for the World Ahead
A four-part series from Dr. Daniel Foor
This course is on demand, and may be enjoyed at your own pace.
About the Course
To parent in 2024 is to nurture along curious, tender kids, teenagers, and young adults amidst the backdrop of a human-driven extinction crisis; the ongoing, televised genocide of over 13,000 Palestinian children; and hundreds of millions of kids with food scarcity. The entire global ecology is saturated with human impact and there’s no bubble strong enough to shelter the younger ones from our collective crossroads.
Earth-honoring ways of knowing are being embraced again while hazardous supremacy-based systems continue to salt the Earth and bring ruin to life. In the best of times, parenting is a life-changing commitment that tests our values and stamina; all the more so now. Time with kids can bring joy, magic, and tenderness as well as heartbreak and a chance to revisit the vulnerability of our own childhood, including as it speaks through the present.
Raising kind, clever, and culturally courageous children is one of the most subversive and impactful ways to support long-term systemic change.
– Daniel Foor
Course Overview
This course is for anyone spending dedicated time with children, teenagers, and/or young adults or hoping to step into that capacity more in the future. Participants will learn the importance of rites of passage, honoring soul-level differences, and the link between parenting styles and political change work. We’ll emphasize kind and effective ways to instill Earth-honoring, decolonial values and teach ritual life-skills for a world that includes genocide, systemic violence, and ecological catastrophe alongside tremendous human beauty and tenderness.
Course material will be rooted in an inclusive, international ethic that includes respect for diverse approaches to parenting younger ones of all ages. Teachings will give care to the massive economic disparities between the Global North and South and how this presents regarding access to care and resources and navigating the realities of systemic oppression. We’ll be unflinching in our acknowledgement of the political, but the focus of this course is heart-connected and pragmatic. The core of the conversation will be spiritually-attuned, culturally-liberatory parenting. Each lesson will include Q&A and opportunities for guided practice, and the learning space will be lively and engaging.
Four recorded 90-minute lessons
Guided, experiential practices with each lesson
Extensive additional resources featuring diverse voices
Lifetime access to all course materials
Access to a dedicated community discussion space
Course Curriculum
Lesson One: Animist Ethics and Ritual Arts
- Learn ways to parent that include the Earth and ancestors
- Consider ways to make ritual arts fun, engaging, and relevant
- Explore personal blocks to teaching kids about ritual and the unseen
- Practice calling in direct spiritual support for your daily parenting
Lesson Two: Systemic Violence and Parenting
- Explore the overlap of education, life prep, and transmitting fear
- Reflect on and articulate your most essential values as a caregiver
- Discuss limits of our ability to keep our kids safe and the role of faith
- Practice connection and self-regulation while witnessing real danger
Lesson Three: Honoring Specific Soul Needs
- Learn to harness the calling to make positive changes in your lineage
- Consider ways to honor radically different destinies in the same family
- Make connections between parenting styles and political implications
- Practice affirming soul differences between you and those in your care
Lesson Four: Rites of Passage and Community
- Learn the principles, importance of, and approaches to rites of passage
- Reflect on your development as it relates to young ones you care for
- Make connections between cultural change and spiritual cultivation
- Practice inviting Earth and ancestral wisdom for your parenting journey
Register for Raising Radical Kids
3 and 6 month payment plans available at checkout at 0% interest.
Supporter
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Our standard rate allows us to sustain our work. This typically applies if you’re employed in the Global North, and you’re able to provide for your needs in a consistent way.
Standard
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Our standard rate allows us to sustain our work. This typically applies if you’re employed in the Global North, and you’re able to provide for your needs in a consistent way.
Reduced
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This rate applies if you’re relatively less economically advantaged in the ways listed under “standard rate” or that cost is simply out of reach for you financially.
Daniel Foor
Founder and Director of Ancestral Medicine
Daniel is a doctor of psychology, experienced ritualist, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. He is an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and has learned from teachers of Mahayana Buddhism, Islamic Sufism, and the older ways of his English and German ancestors. Daniel is passionate about training aspiring leaders and change makers in the intersections of cultural healing, animist ethics, and applied ritual arts. He lives with his wife and two daughters near Granada, Spain in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Frequently Asked Questions
Not at all. If you’re at any stage of the caregiving journey with a person who is not yet an adult, this offering will have something for you.
To the very best of our ability, yes. All Ancestral Medicine offerings seek to embody an anti-racist, feminist, LGBTQ-celebrating, decolonizing, and Earth-honoring ethic. They are also class-aware and internationally conscious. We offer a heartfelt, non-dogmatic approach that seeks to honor each participant’s unique life experiences and ancestral storylines. Resources included with each lesson favor ancestrally and geographically diverse voices.
All live teaching calls will be recorded and made available 24-48 hours later in the course portal to watch and listen to at your leisure, with indefinite access.
All of our lesson videos have auto-generated English subtitles, as well as downloadable audio-only versions of the lessons. If you have needs not met here, please feel free to reach out to us with suggestions at info@ancestralmedicine.org.
Should you wish to withdraw from an online course for any reason, please contact us at info@ancestralmedicine.org to request a full refund within the refund window of that specific course. For this 6-week course, you can request a refund before the second call begins.
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