Episode #30: Parenting with Possibility with Parent Divia Eden

Divia Eden joins us today for a talk about her interesting and collaborative “high-trust high-stakes” parenting approach, which is steeped in futurist ideas with an ancestral framework. She also talks about the importance of creating a community, her assumptions and broad perspective the power of choice and the vision of sharing ideas, necessities, and space within a community.

Takeaways:

How playing video games with her neighbor during childhood was Divia’s first foray into being okay with losing and having a growth mindset.
There is a quality of resilience that develops when one is okay with losing.
Divia grew up in Manhattan and moved to the Bay Area after studying computer science in college. She started working at a startup with some friends and felt as though the Bay Area had the right opportunities and intelligent people she desired to be around.
Divia’s partnership and how it encourages both of them to grow and integrate ideas both together and individually.
The attraction Divia and her partner have to the idea of foragers and hunter-gatherers and how it relates to the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve.
The integration in our current culture of parents of investing more time and energy than ever before in raising children.
Divia’s entrepreneurial approach to parenting and her dedication to molding her life and schedule around spending time with her kids in a way that makes sense to her.
Divia’s interest in Self-Therapy and Internal Family Systems Therapies and how they result in familial dynamics and conscious parenting.
The concept of unschooling as it relates to high trust and high investment, and what different connotations mean within different communities in Divia’s life.
The balance of the needs of the individual and the collective when parenting and examples where trust in oneself can be nurtured and developed.

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Quotes

“I’m typically most interested in ideas I don’t know how to express.”
“I want to do something high-investment, and I want to do something high-trust.”
“When I would go to my job, if I were to ask myself does this really matter what I’m doing, I never got anywhere as clear a yes as when I’m with my kids.”
“I’m pretty in touch with being an animal, and animals like having kids and I am one and I like it too.”
“I really don’t want to force my ideas or my thoughts on other people.”

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