Workshop Descriptions
Workshops for the 2025 Infancy Institute will be announced soon.
Infancy Institute
Information and Registration
2025 Conference
On Site
June 23, 24, and 25, 2025
Monday from 10:00 AM – 4:15 PM ET
Tuesday from 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM ET
Wednesday from 9:30 AM – 3:15 PM ET
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Keynote Speaker
Keynote Speaker: Nat Nadha Vikitsreth
Politicizing Care: Using Power Analysis to Deepen Attunement
What does it take to center liberation in our work with families and children so that radical care can bloom? This 90-minute workshop explores this question by inviting you to examine sites of oppression and sites of liberation in your infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) work. Together, we’ll reflect on our complicity in perpetuating oppression, especially when our intention is to “help” and “empower” families. Next, we’ll apply the liberatory strategy of power analysis to understand how we can replace oppression with liberation. Once we understand our power (specifically our power from adult supremacy), we can share it with families ethically and responsibly. We can enrich and deepen the relational skill of attunement and promote positive child and family outcomes. We will unpack these topics together using play, small group discussion, solo journaling/reflection, and a bit of didactic teach-in. You’ll walk away with political context that you can use to refine your relational skills.
About Nat Nadha Vikitsreth
Nat Nadha Vikitsreth, LCSW, (she/her), is a dot connector, norm agitator, and lover of liberation who supports social justice curious families in their efforts to practice social justice in their parenting while re-parenting their inner child. Nat works as a nationally award-winning decolonized therapist and facilitator, a trans rights activist, and a host of the Come Back to Care Podcast. She founded Come Back to Care for anyone who loves and raises children to heal as we get free.Nat believes that when parents and providers alike heal our inner child and internalized oppression wounds in a community, we put fragmented pieces of ourselves together to show up to both parenting and community organizing with our whole selves. Then, we can dismantle systemic oppression and rebuild a culture that’s rooted in liberation for our future generations.
Nat was honored to be the keynote speaker at the 2024 Oregon Parenting Educator Conference, Oregon State University. In 2023, she also spoke about decolonized mental health and healing justice-based care at the 18th World Association for Infant Mental Health in Dublin, Ireland. Additionally, Nat is also a faculty member at the Zero to Three 2023 LEARN Institute, a facilitator of the Pre-Conference Forum at the 2024 LEARN Conference, and a 2024-2026 Zero to Three Fellow.
Her decolonized pediatric and family mental health approach received a Congressional Commendation read into the Congressional Record by Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, was featured in Chicago’s WGN9, and was awarded the Zero to Three Award for Emerging Leadership. Her most recent publications include an academic article in the June 2022 Zero to Three Journal, an op-ed piece in Condé Nast’s Them, and an essay in ICONIQA.
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Registration & Fees
Registration & Fees
Registration will be available in Spring 2025.
2024 Fees (2025 fees coming soon):
- $250 Individual Early Bird Rate ($315 after May 31)
- $215 Group Early Bird Rate per person for a minimum of 5 ($250 per person after May 31)
Additional Information:
- One (1) graduate credit may be earned by:
- Registering for EDUC 612 “Infancy Institute: Infants, Toddlers, Families: Supporting Their Growth” in the Summer 2 C 2024 term;
- Paying the tuition fee ($1,814);
- Attending the on-site, online, or both sessions of the conference; andCompleting online coursework after the conference
- Participants will receive 12 CTLE hours or 1 CEU if they meet attendance requirements.
- Certificates of participation will be emailed to registered participants who meet attendance criteria approximately 3 weeks after the conference closes.
Questions? Contact Continuing Professional Studies at cps@bankstreet.edu or 212-875-4649.
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Schedule
Schedule
Date/Time (EDT) Activity Monday, June 23, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM Welcome and Keynote
Politicizing Care: Using Power Analysis to Deepen Attunement
Nat Nadha VikitsrethMonday, June 23, 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Processing Group Monday, June 23, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch Monday, June 23, 2:00 PM – 4:15 PM Workshop Session A Tuesday, June 24, 9:30 AM – 11:45 AM Workshop Sessions B Tuesday, June 24, 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM Lunch Tuesday, June 24, 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM Afternoon Panel/Presentation Tuesday, June 24, 2:45 PM – 3:45 PM Processing Group Tuesday, June 24, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Poster Presentations Wednesday, June 25, 9:30 AM – 11:45 AM Workshop Session C Wednesday, June 25, 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM Lunch Wednesday, June 25, 1:00 PM – 3:15 PM Workshop Session D -
Workshop Descriptions