The Van Leer Foundation is hosting an Early Childhood Matters (ECM) Conversation Circle on parenting on July 22 from 6-7pm CET. Register today!
This conversation will unpack how somewhere along the way, parenting became a private struggle — a responsibility parents and other caregivers, mostly women, were expected to shoulder on their own. But it doesn’t have to be this way, as countless initiatives and leaders are showing. What would it look like to rebuild strong care communities — and what’s holding us back?
This webinar will explore bold new possibilities for collective care with leading thinkers and practitioners who are shaping how we understand and support parents and other caregivers.
Meet leaders shaping the conversation:
- Alicia Lieberman: Director of the Child Trauma Research Program, and professor at UCSF, who co-developed Child-Parent Psychotherapy, a trauma-informed model that helps families heal together
- Alison Gopnik: Principal of the Social Science of Caregiving programme, psychology professor at UC Berkeley, and author, whose pioneering work is (re)defining how we understand the science of caregiving
- Elissa Strauss: Author of When You Care: The Unexpected Magic of Caring for Others, Elissa has been writing about the politics and culture of parenting and caregiving for more than 15 years, and was the guest editor of Early Childhood Matters 2025