Ep 64: Power-With With Your Family this Holiday with this Political Messaging Strategy

"I hope that the value-villain-vision framework is one concrete tool that you can pull out of your toolkit to interrupt your old survival strategies and try a newly upgraded way to set boundaries and protect your peace. I hope these strategic 5 or 6 sentence templates that you craft can be the anchor you need to stay in your power when others make you feel powerless."

 
 

Episode Summary:

I first shared this episode with you last November and my mailbox got flooded with kind feedback from so many listeners saying how compassionate and concrete the strategy was. So, I’d love to share it with you again today, my dear co-conspirator.

In this episode, you and I will explore a framework for strategic communications that a political messaging expert and campaign advisor, Anat Shenker-Osorio, teaches. Then, you’ll adapt and apply this three-part framework to craft your own statement that you can use to set boundaries and protect your peace with those who judge or critique your parenting choices. I’ll share various examples of what this framework can look like when the critiques range from “you’re too soft” to “you’re gonna let your child do that?” This way you can experiment with this framework, leave what doesn’t feel right, and as always make it your method.

Full episode transcript here.

 

Episode Outline

  • Defining strategic communications and Anat Shenker-Osorio’s “value-villain-vision” framework.

  • Why it’s important to begin a conversation with what we’re for aka our values. 

  • Parents already lead with values in discipline and boundary settings.

  • Why it’s important to share a vision and invite others to join movements.

  • Connecting this communication strategy with abolitionist organizing. 

  • Putting this framework together in a few examples. 

  • Why applying this framework to our parents and family members can be very challenging.

  • Connecting the dots to inner child wounds.

  • This communication strategy can be a way to upgrade the old survival strategies and re-parent your inner child. 

  • Adapting value-villain-vision framework to decolonized parenting.

  • Scenario one: no room for feelings. 

  • Scenario two: disagreement equals disrespect.

  • Scenario three: hovering and swooping in…with love.

  • Scenario four: ableism

  • Wise words from Audre Lorde

 
 
 
 
 
 

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