Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice In Everyday Parenting -- Nat Nadha Vikitsreth In Conversation With Ariana Denise Brazier

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Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice in Everyday Parenting — Nat Nadha Vikitsreth in conversation with Ariana Denise Brazier

This event takes place virtually on Zoom. This event is free, but registration is required - click here to register.  
PLEASE NOTE: You must register using an email address that is connected to a Zoom account. This is a security measure to minimize bots and ill-intentioned attendees. Charis welcomes Nat Nadha Vikitsreth in conversation with Ariana Denise Brazier for a celebration of Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice in Everyday Parenting, an essential read for busy parents seeking to instill social justice values in their children
Raising Change Agents gives parents the tools they need to weave social justice actions into their daily routines, raise socially conscious kids, and address their own triggers and trauma, helping them become more than performative, take a proactive approach, and teach their kids and themselves to live in alignment with their values, even when they feel overwhelmed with the demands of work and homelife. The author's proven framework focuses on breaking the abstract concepts of social justice actions into bite-sized actions that parents can implement throughout the day whether during mealtime, bath time, play, or school drop off.The book explores how to:

Raise children to be social change agents by first becoming one
Practice social justice in daily parenting while promoting a child's development at the same time; each social justice action in this book is linked to developmental psychology
Take concrete actions to support doing the "heart work" of liberation together for the long haul, because liberation starts at home

Raising Change Agents is an essential read for busy parents who believe in social justice initiatives and want to instill these values in their children but don't yet have the tools and strategies to do so, along with practitioners, therapists, educators, and other professionals who work with children.
About the Author
Nat Nadha Vikitsreth, LCSW (she/her) is a dot connector, norm agitator, and lover of liberation. Nat works as a nationally award-winning decolonized therapist, a keynote facilitator, a trans rights activist, and a host of the Come Back to Care Podcast. Her book, Raising Change Agents: Practicing Social Justice in Everyday Parenting, helps parents make parenting political in practical ways. 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. 
Outside of her clinical and psychoeducation work at Come Back to Care, Nat provides political education and healing support to youth organizers around the stolen land of the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations (Chicago). To embody joy in radical art making, Nat has performed and headlined premier burlesque shows across the USA and in New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Sweden, Germany, and Canada. 
About the Conversation Partner
Ariana Denise Brazier, Ph.D. (they/she) is a Black queer feminist and smiley sad mom-girl. She is a play-driven community-organizer and educator who is motivated to raise a joyous, free Black child. She documents how Black child play functions as a grassroots method of community-based storytelling, teaching, and organizing. She is the CEO and President of the nonprofit ATL Parent Like A Boss, Inc. (Parent LAB) whose mission is to enhance generational literacies through play in underserved African American communities.
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