Custom Designed Workshops

Growing Intentional Families Together designs and facilitates a variety of workshops, from one-hour workshops for families to a more in-depth workshop for groups of parents or professionals, to presentations for adoption conferences.
Our adoption coaching workshop topics include:
Before and During the Adoption:
- Pre-adoption Tools
- Things You Need to Know Before Starting the
Adoption Process
Is Adopting A Child Right For You?
- The Hidden Dangers of Adoption Myths
- Build Your Adoption Library
- Nurture Effective Communication with
- Your Social Worker Through the Adoption Process
Parenting an Adopted Child:
- Ways to Advocate for Your Child in the School System
- How to Move from Empathy to Adoption Attuned Solutions
- Build in Family Fun
- The Identity Tapestry of Children with Multiple Families
- The Art of Listening
- How to Develop a Family Mission Statement
- How to Create Authentic Relationships with Your Child(ren)
- Identifying and Living with Ambiguous Loss
Serving Adopted Families:
- Coaching to Empower Adoptive and Foster Families
- How to Make Your Youth Group
- Responsive to Children with Challenging Behaviors
Webinars for Special Groups:
- Faith Communities as a Source of Connection
- The How’s and Why’s of Being A Trauma-Informed Congregation
- What Adoptees Need from Families and FaithGrowing Intentional Families Together’s Adoption Attunement (AQ) approach considers how adoption influences a child and includes:
- Operate with a child-centric focus
- Follow ethical practices
- Acknowledge the grief and loss issues of all members in the adoption constellation
- Understand the attachment process
- Respect birth parents and first families
- Recognize adoption as a family experience
- Honor a child’s need to know and connect with their birth family
- Integrate a child’s birth heritage
- Remember a child’s story belongs to them
- Model, teach, and hold healthy boundaries
- Use sound adoption language
- Embrace, when appropriate, moments to enlighten family, friends, teachers, and faith
- communities about adoption
- Encourage playfulness and good humor as a family value
- Nurture and value a child’s innate talents and encourage them to be themselves
- Parents work through their own grief and loss issues
- Adoption-sensitive parenting techniques
Our coaches can develop workshops based on your specific needs. If you’re part of a family in need of guidance or are active in an adoptive parents support group that wants to broaden its horizons through coaching and education, let Growing Intentional Families Together build a custom workshop for you. Contact us to learn more about our adoption coaching services and workshops or to schedule a complimentary consultation with one of our experienced coaches.
“…so thankful that I learned positive steps to get me out of my ‘funks’ and some great techniques to keep me motivated and excited about working towards my long-term goals.” — W.T.