Seasoned Parents
When your kids are adults there is often the false notion that the need to talk about adoption is over. When people adopt they are oftentimes told that love would be enough. Your kids are now adults with their own thoughts and feelings about adoption; unfortunately, love alone is not enough for you to engage in tough conversations about adoption with your adult adoptees.
Join us for a virtual six-week program to talk together and:
- Reflect on why you chose adoption, and what you have learned over decades of raising children
- Dig into the challenges of talking about adoption as an industry, gratitude, anger, adoption fog, search, reunion and race
- Practice talking about these adoption issues with your adult children and with others, in ways that are clear, respectful, and helpful.
This is a 6 week course that covers all of the above and more in six 90 minute sessions.
This curriculum has been developed by both an adoptee, Astrid Castro, Director and Founder of Adoption Mosaic, and an adoptive parent, Maureen McCauley.
Our aim is to serve adoptees (including those who are adults) and parents in the spirit of openness and understanding.
Meet your facilitators below. Click on photos for bios!
*Each of our Conscious Adoption Adoptive Parent Education Courses is offered only once a year!
Our next course:
Dates: Oct 11- Nov 15, 2023
Time: 4-5:30p PT
Cost: $800/household
Note: We are raising our prices for our Conscious Adoption courses to better reflect the value that we bring to our work. We recognize that this may not be immediately accessible to some adoptive parents and we do offer an installment payment plan. We will work with you! Reach out to hello@adoptionmosaic.com for more information.
Facilitators
Astrid Castro
Maureen McCauley
A Note From Astrid
For my adoptees out there, you are never too old to ask your adoptive parents to be adoption fluent. And similarly, for my adoptive parents out there, you are never too old to join and learn from one of our courses.
At Adoption Mosaic we believe adoptees should not be solely responsible for educating and supporting their adoptive parents in becoming adoption fluent. We have created adoptive parent education courses that can benefit adoptive parents no matter the age of their children.
Seeing my parents make the effort to understand adoption from the adoptee point-of-view saved our relationship. My parents are now able to engage in conversations about adoption with more openness and less defensiveness.
When parents adopt, they are usually excited, happy, and a bit anxious, all at the same time. They may build on what the adoption agency provided in pre-adoption training, and then often settle into family life. The kids grow up so fast! Adoptive parents may become grandparents. And the issues related to adoption are over, right?
I am so proud of the work Maureen McCauley and I have done in developing the first of its kind course designed for “Seasoned Adoptive Parents”.
For me, seeing my parents make the effort to understand adoption from my adoptee point-of-view well into my adulthood strengthened our relationship in very profound ways.
Our hope in offering this course to adoptive parents of adult children is to help create stronger family bonds between adoptees and their parents. We believe adoptees should not be solely responsible for educating and supporting their adoptive parents in becoming adoption fluent and adoption competent.
~ Astrid
Not sure if this course is right for you?
We offer FREE 15 minute virtual consultations with our founder and CEO Astrid Castro. If you would prefer to speak to someone then this is the perfect choice!
