Empower Your Coaching with Adoption Attuned Certification
Join our specialized program designed for certified coaches to master Adoption Attuned coaching. Elevate your skills and make a profound impact on the adoption community.
What If You Are Not a Coach but Are a Mental Health Professional and Part of the Adoption Community?
Receive an Adoption Attuned Professional Certification
Many in the adoption community are searching for mental health professionals who listen and lead–not with judgment, but with care and shared experience. Enhance your practice. Position yourself as an effective and open professional for adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents.
Many in the adoption community are searching for mental health professionals who listen and lead–not with judgment, but with care and shared experience. Enhance your practice with adoption attuned coaching skills. Position yourself as an effective and open professional for adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents.
Program Highlights
Certification Benefits
Tri-spective Approach
Expert-Led Training
Adoption Attuned Curriculum
Why Choose Our Program?
Adoption Attuned Coaching Certification
Our program is dedicated to equipping certified coaches with the skills and knowledge to excel in Adoption Attuned coaching. By adopting a Tri-spective approach, we ensure that the voices of all members of the adoption triad are heard, with a particular emphasis on centering the adoptee’s experience. This comprehensive training empowers coaches to provide the highest level of support and guidance to individuals within the adoption constellation.
Become one of the first Certified Adoption Coaches!
Enjoy our introductory price until March 1st.
$699 regular $999
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What Coaches Are Saying
Are you an ICF Certified Coach and need CE’s to maintain your certification with ICF? Our course is pending eligibility as an ICF-approved continuing education course.
Course Content
Packed with Benefits
The 20-hour, self-paced course includes:
Up-to-Date Information on Adoption Practices, Dynamics, and Complexities for Each Triad Member
Adoption Language Dictionary, Adoption Attuned Coaching Practices, Philosophy, Tri-spective Coaching Process
Special Coaching Considerations for Triad Members Taught by Triad Members
Adoption Coaching Toolkit: Specialized Coaching Techniques, Exercises, Checklists
Model Coaching Sessions with Instructive Debriefs
Everything Needed to Enroll New Clients: Coaching Questionnaires, Agreements, and Plans
Live Conversation Zoom Calls for Students Offered Twice Monthly
Private Facebook Group To Receive Support and Community from Other New Adoption Coaches
On-going Access to New Information and Trainings from Growing Intentional Families Together, LLC
Lesson Breakdown
| Lesson | Lesson Title | Hours | Instructor(s) | Description | Coaching Competencies |
| 1 | Coaching the Discerning Process | 2.7 | Susan David, Gayle Swift—Adoptive Parents and Coaches | Introduction to discernment process, adoption attunement, language in adoption, tri-spective view, and Adoption Attuned coaching | Coaching Mindset |
| 2 |
Coaching the Adoption Process |
2.3 |
Susan David, Gayle Swift—Adoptive Parents and Coaches |
Adoption myths, principles, ethics, legalities, and G.I.F.T.’s adoption philosophy, and Tri-spective Coaching Process |
Facilitates Growth, Ethics |
| 3 |
Coaching After Adopting |
2.9 |
Susan David, Gayle Swift—Adoptive Parents and Coaches |
Explore post-adoption parenting, including distinctions, attachment, trauma, transracial families, and navigating challenges specific to adoptive families |
Facilitates Growth, Active Listening, Cultivates Trust and Safety |
| 4 | Coaching the Adoptee | 3.3 |
Sharon Butler-Obazee—Adoptee and Coach |
Unique characteristics of coaching adoptees, including Positive Adoption Language, trauma responses, racial and cultural awareness and creating a sense of belonging |
Facilitates Growth, Active Listening, Cultivates Trust and Safety |
| 5 | Coaching the Birth Parent | 2.8 |
Kim Noeth—Birth Mom and Coach |
Understanding grief, fostering relationships in open vs. closed adoptions, and supporting birth parents through reunions and beyond |
Facilitates Growth, Active Listening, Cultivates Trust and Safety, Coaching Mindset |
| 6 |
The Tri-spective Coaching Model |
1.4 |
Sally Ankerfelt, Sharon Butler-Obazee—Adoptive Parent and Adoptee |
Practical application of coaching techniques, strategies for introducing perspectives, and grounding practices for coaches |
Addresses All ICF Core Competencies |
| 7 |
Special Considerations in Adoption Coaching |
3.6 |
Sally Ankerfelt, Sharon Butler-Obazee—Adoptive Parents and Coaches and, International Contributor Jo Nketiah—Coach and adoptive family member |
Trust, transparency, client-centered practices, active listening, barriers to creating coaching plans, facilitating growth and creating trust and safety; and personal awareness in adoption coaching sessions |
Addresses All Core Competencies |
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Final Exam |
A comprehensive assessment covering all lessons |
Facilitates Client Growth, Invites Action |
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| Total | 19 hours |
Adoptees and their families need a coach who:
Knows about adoption and believes everyone in the triad experiences loss especially the adoptee.
Has the skills, life and professional experience to truly listen, holds clients capable, and lets the client lead.
Believes that all three triad members impact the other, whether seen or not seen, known or not known and that taking the Tri-spective view benefits the client.
Recognizes adoption is complex and not totally benign
Join Our Adoption Coaching Certification Program Today!
Enjoy our introductory price until March 1st.
$699 regular $999
