by GIFT Coach | Dec 3, 2015 | Adoptive Parenting Skills/Tool, Strengthening Family Relationships, The Adoption Triad
Last week we explored one tenet of our philosophy of adoption. (The entire twenty-five point manifesto is posted on our website home page.) This week we turn to point four: 4. Support systems are vital in assisting families with the realities of living as an adopted...
by GIFT Coach | Oct 27, 2015 | Difficult Discussions, faith, Faith and Values, Faith communities, General Discussion, paradigm shift, Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors, Strengthening Family Relationships
Final of a 4 part series examining the promise of faith communities as sources of healing and connection and GIFT coaches, Sally Ankerfelt and Susan David’s recent presentation at the 2015 ATTACh Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. To bring you up to speed in...
by GIFT Coach | Oct 14, 2015 | Blogs by Sally Ankerfelt, Blogs by Susan David, Faith and Values, Faith communities, General Discussion, Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors, Strengthening Family Relationships
This post is Part 2 of a 4 part series examining the promise of faith communities as sources of healing and connection and GIFT coaches’, Sally Ankerfelt and Susan David’s recent presentation at the 2015 ATTACh Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. If...
by GIFT Coach | Oct 6, 2015 | Blogs by Susan David, Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors, Strengthening Family Relationships
Part 1 of a 4 Part Series highlighting the recent ATTACh Conference in Minneapolis, MN Recently, my colleague, Sally Ankerfelt, and I (Susan David,) attended the 27th Annual ATTACh Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota as both presenters and participants. Each year...
by GIFT Coach | Jul 8, 2015 | Post Adoption Challenges & Behaviors, Strengthening Family Relationships
Growing Intentional Families Together coach, Gayle Swift writes a blog, “Writing to Connect.,” which reviews children’s books through an Adoption-attuned lens. Some books that she reviews focus on adoption-themed topics but most do not. Here are two...
by GIFT Coach | May 21, 2015 | Blogs by Gayle Swift, Faith and Values, General Discussion, Open Adoption, Strengthening Family Relationships
My children are now adults –twenty-eight and thirty years old. (Of course, in my heart, they will always be my babies.) Each is steadily pursuing relationships and careers guided by an inner compass that evolved from a combination of factors: nurture, DNA, personal...
