Bridge the Gap between Your Anti-Racist Intentions & Your Social Justice Actions with Each Family You Serve

A bespoke professional development for change agents serving families and young children (B-5) rooted in the praxis of decolonized mental health, Black Feminism & Trans Liberation

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Which parent are you resonating with today?

Click to see how I meet you there (and I’m bringing Pad Thai & matcha mochi cookies too)

A mother holds her baby close while breastfeeding.

“I know my child doesn’t come with a manual. But I want to stop second guessing my parenting decisions.”

I RESONATE WITH ADITI

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“I’m trying to be gentle and conscious with my child. But when they push my buttons. I get triggered and yell (sigh). It feels like I start at zero again. I want to work on my triggers.”

I RESONATE WITH NGUYEN

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“I want my child to grow up and use their privileges and power for everyone’s equity and liberation.”

I RESONATE WITH JONES

As Seen In

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During the Re-parenting your inner child workshop with Nat, I experienced a type of safety and comfort I’ve never experienced before in my adulthood. I felt like connected to everyone the moment we began to share our stories from our childhood and find similarities within them. I enjoyed most being able to be vulnerable, present, and heard. I love most how Nat interacts with people because she allows space for everyone to be heard & think every thought through. Pauses that’ll traditionally be considered “awkward” moments in facilitation were quickly recognized as time, space, and energy to not only process everything that was being told but also how you felt and thought about it…Overall I felt a sense of fulfillment leaving this workshop but also an eagerness to gain more! I can’t wait to continue to do this work.

— Tanya Smith
Arts Facilitator, Kuumba Lynx

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Theory of Change

Deepen Your Clinical Skills with Social Justice Actions

You and I already know that our field’s competencies like attunement, therapeutic alliance, trauma-informed care, play-based intervention, and so on center Euro-American, middle class, ableist values.

These values include urgency, perfectionism, and productivity.

Together, we can de-center these biases and examine the field’s competencies through the lens of social justice actions.

To say it another way: we decolonize and queer the field’s business-as-usual and root our practices in belonging, liberation, equity, and justice.

Discover how the wisdom of organizing work can strengthen your partnership with the families you serve and deepen your clinical competencies.

Explore how practicing harm reduction, transformative justice, solidarity, power-with, and accountability can promote child and family outcomes and community healing.

Shift from constantly doubting “did I take up too much space? Could I have spoken up more for my colleagues who couldn’t?” to confidently grounding your social justice action in your integrity.

GROW YOUR TEAM'S CAPACITIES TODAY

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A full-day facilitation for home visitors in King County, Washington State, who serve infants and toddlers. Session topic- Power Play: A Play-Based Approach to Nurture Equity & Belonging in Home Visitor-Family Partnership. Photo Credit: Sarah Ganbat.

"For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change."

- Audre Lorde, a self-described "Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,"

“This was probably the most helpful training I have received so far as a home visitor. Tools to help ourselves work more deeply and effectively with our clients are so valuable. I appreciate that this training was balanced between how we can better interact with and connect with our families while also continuing to protect and care for ourselves while we do that.”

— Early Care and Early Childhood Educator, Abilities Network, Baltimore, MD

“Absolutely amazing presenter with the ability to go deep and meaningful and pull on the heartstrings. Super impactful.”

— Oregon Parenting Educators Conference 2024 Participant

“This presenter was absolutely amazing and dynamic and was just a powerhouse! I am so inspired! I will follow their podcast as well!”

— A participant at the 2024 Zero to Three Pre-Conference Forum

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Two women smiling and posing together at the Zero to Three Learn Conference 2024 in Long Beach, California. One woman has long black hair and is wearing a beige outfit with a decorative heart-shaped pattern. The other woman has dark hair tied back an

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“I really enjoyed that the speaker wasn't traditional at all, and that we got that kind of point of view. She was so intentional and really showed a great example of the type of reflective supervision I'd like to implement.”

— A participant at the workshop hosted by the University of Texas Austin and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

“This was probably the most helpful training I have received so far as a home visitor. Tools to help ourselves work more deeply and effectively with our clients are so valuable. I appreciate that this training was balanced between how we can better interact with and connect with our families while also continuing to protect and care for ourselves while we do that.”

— A home visitor from a workshop with Start Early

Hi I’m Nat Vikitsreth, LCSW

I speak to the quiet change makers in the back of the room while holding space for the fierce disruptors in the front, mobilizing your team towards a shared vision of change, belonging, and liberation.

I uplift the collective wisdom that’s already in your team while nurturing those seeds and sprouts of change with my dignity-centered facilitation.

Trained as a professional player (early childhood special ed teacher, early intervention home visitor, and politicized therapist), play is at the heart of my facilitation.

I’ll engage your team in psychoeducation and political education with play via somatic practices, storytelling, improv, and pop culture.

Our work is already hard. The budget is tight. The paperwork is (insert eyeroll).

That’s why I want your team to walk away from each workshop with their heart cups a little fuller, with a clear sense of “I got this,” and with concrete tools to transform their work the following day.

I won’t tell your team to “Google it.” Rather, I’ll meet their curiosity with compassion so we can arrive at action plans together.

(PROFESSIONAL) LETTER'S, RECEIPTS & BIO

LAND AND LINEAGE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

PAST SPEAKING EXPERIENCES

"I left our time with you feeling inspired and with a full heart. Your workshop was one of the most meaningful I have ever experienced in terms of feeling seen, validated, and inspired. You have a beautiful way of putting words to what so many of us feel and making learning a full-body, mind, and heart experience. Thank you. I learned so much not only from what you shared, but in the way that you shared."

— Shauna Tominey, Ph.D (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Practice & Parenting Education Specialist & Oregon Parenting Education Collaborative (OPEC) State Coordinator

You did what you had to do to survive. Now you want to give your child all you got so they can thrive.

But conflicting parenting advice keeps you up at 1:53 AM wondering “did I do enough?” Plus, capitalism grinds and pushes you to the limits. So you accidentally snap at your child and sound like your parents (even though you promised yourself to never repeat these words to your child).

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Your ancestors went through too much for you to raise your child using a parenting playbook written by white, colonial, capitalist patriarchy (or a TikTok influencer).

It’s possible for you to get unstuck from outdated family cycles and oppressive parenting “should’s”.

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So that you can raise your child by your social justice values and stop passing down those hurtful family cycles.

NOT IN A RUSH? LISTEN TO A LOVE LETTER FROM NAT