Speaking
Nikita Datar speaks on the inner life of women, the biology of generational trauma, the difference between healing and performing healing, the father wound in professional life, and the bridge between depth psychology and Vedic wisdom traditions. Available for keynote, fireside, workshop, and panel formats.
Keynote Topics
Keynote · 45 to 60 minutes
“The Wound You Did Not Know You Were Carrying”
A keynote on the father wound as a psychological, somatic, and economic inheritance. The patterns formed in the earliest relationship with authority do not remain there. They travel into the boardroom, the negotiation, the salary conversation, and the capacity to be seen without collapsing. This talk names what most professional development conversations leave out.
Designed for: Women's leadership conferences, corporate wellness summits, and professional development events.
Keynote · 45 to 60 minutes
“The Cycle That Ends With You”
A keynote on intergenerational trauma and the woman who chose to be the first to stop passing it forward. The biological, psychological, and relational mechanisms of how trauma transmits across generations, and what it actually costs to interrupt that transmission rather than simply perform the interruption.
Designed for: Mental health conferences, therapist trainings, and healing communities.
Fireside or Workshop · 30 to 45 minutes
“Self-Confrontation: The Discipline of Looking”
On the distinction between self-help and self-confrontation. Self-help tells you what to do. Self-confrontation asks you to see what is already running. This session draws from clinical psychology, Jungian shadow work, and the practical question of why intelligent, motivated people stay stuck even when doing everything they are told to do.
Designed for: Mid-career professional audiences, leadership offsites, and intimate gatherings.
Keynote · 45 to 60 minutes
“The Body in the Story”
A keynote on the somatic dimension of psychological wounds. Integrating polyvagal theory, trauma neurobiology, and the lived experience of women whose bodies held what they could not speak. The nervous system is not a metaphor. It is the site of the record, and this talk treats it that way.
Designed for: Mental health summits, somatic therapy conferences, and wellness-forward organizations.
Workshop · 60 to 90 minutes
“The Vedic Year”
A workshop integrating Vedic dasha frameworks and psychological practice for groups doing collective year-end and year-beginning reflection. This is not prediction. It is a map of the interior weather of the cycle, and a method for orienting to it rather than being moved unconsciously by it.
Designed for: Retreat groups, wellness communities, and organizations doing intentional seasonal reflection.
Formats
Keynote
60 to 90 minutes
Lecture format with Q+A. Designed for larger audiences and conference settings.
Fireside
45 to 60 minutes
Moderated conversation with a host. Designed for intimate or hybrid settings where dialogue matters.
Workshop
90 to 120 minutes
Structured participation with exercises. Designed for groups prepared to engage, not only observe.
Panel
Any length
Topic expert participation. Available for panels on depth psychology, trauma, feminine psychology, and Vedic traditions.
Bio for Organizers
Nikita Datar is an Indian author whose work sits at the intersection of depth psychology, trauma somatics, feminine wisdom, and Vedic philosophy. She is the author of ten books, including Healing the Father Wound, Born to Break the Cycle, and You Are the Love You Seek, published through Elysian Press.
Her work addresses what she calls the unspoken architecture of most people's inner lives: the father wound and its consequences in professional and relational life, the biology of intergenerational trauma, the distinction between performing healing and doing it, and the somatic dimension of psychological wounds that standard self-help consistently skips. Her writing draws on Jungian depth psychology, polyvagal theory, trauma neurobiology, and the Vedic frameworks she grew up adjacent to and has spent years studying in depth.
She speaks from a position that is neither clinical distance nor confessional oversharing. The voice is clear, declarative, and witnessing. Audiences leave her talks with a different relationship to what they already knew was true but had not yet named.
She has spoken to audiences at the intersection of mental health, professional development, and spiritual inquiry. Her formats are designed to work in conference keynote settings, intimate leadership offsites, mental health community events, and wellness-forward corporate contexts. She is particularly suited to audiences that are sophisticated enough to have already rejected the simplest version of self-help, and ready for something that treats them as capable of seeing clearly.
She is based in India. Her work is published in English and is read internationally. She is reachable for booking inquiries at speaking@nikitadatar.com.
Book a Speaking Engagement
All speaking inquiries go through speaking@nikitadatar.com. Please include the event name, date, format, audience size, and a brief description of the audience. Virtual and in-person engagements are both considered.