Therapeutic Playgroup Conference

The second 10 Windsor Walk playgroup conference, hosted at the Institute of Psychoanalysis on 9 May 2026.

This conference will focus on psychoanalytically informed playgroups for babies, toddlers and their parents.

Presentations include:

· Valentina Peri Quinteros and Diego Blanco: A House for Encounter: Psychoanalysis, Care, and Childhood in the Margins.

· Dr Catia Angradi, Dr Nedda Papi and Dr Laura Radice: Continuity, specificity and adaptation: therapeutic playgroups in Italy.

· Dr Sarah Peter and Dr Eva Crasnow: The Parent-Toddler Group model adapted for working with families who have adopted.

· Macarena Hernández Fuentes, Fatima Martinez del Solar and Dr Inge-Martine Pretorius: The challenges of working in a therapeutic parent, baby and toddler playgroup for refugees and asylum seekers in London.

Lunch and refreshments included. The conference will be preceded by a drinks reception on the evening of Friday 8th May (location TBC).