What Encanto Teaches Us About Partnering with Parents and Healing Our Inner Child Wound April 2025

• What Encanto Teaches Us About Partnering with Parents and Healing Our Inner Child Wound
• April,15th 2025 – Anchorage, Alaska
• Sponsored by: Family Services Training Center
• Family Services Training Center Website

As infant and early childhood educators, home visitors, and mental health practitioners, we understand that collaborating with caregivers is important for our children’s outcomes. However, some families just rub us the wrong way. even when we’re eager to build rapport with them. In this workshop, you will deepen your understanding of attachment theories to include concepts like attachment adaptations and inner child wounds. These concepts will support you to meet the families where they’re at in trauma-informed and developmentally caring ways. Together, we’ll put intergenerational transmission of trauma and resilience into action, specifically in our partnership with families. You’ll explore these concepts through self-reflection exercises using Encanto and large group interactive discussions. You’ll walk away with more compassion for your own and the families? inner child wounds and concrete strategies to address them. Come curious. Come as you are.
Trainer: 

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. She believes that when parents heal their inner child and internalized oppression wounds in a community, they put fragmented pieces of themselves together to show up to both parenting and community organizing with their whole selves. 

Additionally, Nat is 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. Nat is a graduate of the Erikson Institute’s Social Work Program. She also holds another master’s degree in Infancy & Early Childhood Special Education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.