About the workshop
Spend the day with Sherrie Eldridge, author of numerous adoption related books, including: Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew.
The workshop will be packed with information from all of her books, along with tidbits from her yet to be published book....at least as much as her publisher will allow her to indulge.
Topics include:
What Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
How to Grieve Adoption Loss—A Practical Tool
How to Speak the Heart Language of Your Adopted Child
What Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed
Deepening Your Child’s Sense of Connection to His Past
Workshop Objectives:
Understand Grief in Adoption and Why It Must Be Resolved
Examine ways to deepen Relationships between Adoptive Parents and Children
Provide a Practical Tool for Parents to Help Their Children Grieve Loss
Teach Parents How to Talk Openly about the Birth Parents without Feeling Threatened
Define Six Statements That Communicate Unconditional Love to Resistant Adopted People
Re-Define Successful Parenting, Adoption Style
Explain the Deepest Adoptive Parental Need—To Know They Are Loved By their Child
The workshop will end with a panel to include Sherrie and other adult adoptees moderated by Deborah Gray.
