Joyful Courage for Parenting Teens

Eps 237: Nurturing an Anti-Racist Home Environment (and so much more) with Vivek Patel


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Today’s guest is Vivek Patel. Vivek is a conscious parenting educator who works with families to help create more harmony and connection in their homes. He has dedicated his life to spreading awareness and supporting change in schools. He's worked with youth organizations teaching conflict resolution anti bullying and leadership through movement martial arts and dance. As a conscious parenting educator, he has written hundreds of articles and has 60 parenting videos, you can find his writing on Facebook, the meaningful ideas website and YouTube. We are discussing how to take current events and bring the learning into the home. Join us!

 

" Being anti-racist...It's a mindset that we look at the world through that we analyze the systems that we engage in with, that we listen to language with, and, and everything from media and advertising to government systems to educational systems, the correction system, the legal system, the financial system, the housing system, everything.”

“ From the micro to the macro, being willing to look at those things and see look for look at and look for the inequities, to be willing to see them inside yourself and and other people and the systems and the anti racist part of it is to be doing something to actively change it.”

“When we lift up the people that are oppressed, all of us benefit from it.”

 “Conscious parenting is cycle breaking”

 

What you’ll hear in this episode:

  • Why conscious parenting?
  • Vivek’s activism journey
  • What it means to be anti-racist
  • From micro to macro, reflecting on self and systems
  • The role of self-love and compassion
  • The power of coming together
  • Celebrating the discomfort
  • Opening ourselves up for better relationships and interactions
  • Our parenting relationship and our influence around topics of race
  • Moving away from perfectionism and embracing the practice of becoming anti-racist
  • Conscious parenting as cycle breaking
  • Should we shield our kids from the pain of the world?
  • Kids and fairness: leveraging their intuition towards acts of changemaking
  • Why you need to do your own work, face our own fears and where to start
  • Six relationships that drive change
  • Modelling anti-racism for our kids
  • Zooming in, zooming out, and condoning bad behavior
  • Modelling our use of power, how we engage with power and why it’s important
  • Control and consent in parenting
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