It’s been cold here in Portland and I am dreaming about warmer weather! Thankfully, there is a lot of good energy being generated at Adoption Mosaic and it's keeping me warm.

Our flagship course, Conscious Adoption: Lifelong Tools for Successful Parenting has started. This course is 12 weeks long and is offered once a year.
ADOPTION MOSAIC™ is officially trademarked! Shout out to our wonderful attorney Nicole at Rational Unicorn.
I’m heading to Denver to visit family and connect with my adoptee community. If you are in the Denver area, I’d love to connect. Adoption Mosaic will also be hosting an adoptee only event on Friday, February 24. Click here to register.
This month Adoption Mosaic will host We the Experts: Adoptee + Divorce AND our We the Experts Ally panel: Partners of Adoptees. See below for registration information.

I feel this month’s panels are important discussions for our community. For adoptees, for those who love us, for those we feel loyal to without reciprocated love, relationships and the notion of love can be complicated and complex. These discussions can be hard, and so, I invite you to be in community, not in isolation, as we grapple with these topics and create space for the hard while sharing and embracing the love that is so alive in this community.

I look forward to connecting with you this month online or in Denver.

Your love is keeping me warm,

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Our “Conscious Adoption” education courses are developed by adoptees in collaboration with other adoption constellation members (like adoptive parents) to help individuals and families build adoption competence, make informed decisions around adoption, and connect with other members of their adoption community.

Adoptees rule! Below are events, publications, and projects created by adoptees in our Adoption Mosaic community. Please use your own discretion when deciding if an event, book, etc. is a good fit for you as an individual.

WEDNESDAY, February 8, 2023 at the Native American Student & Community Center at Portland State University.

A chance to see Astrid on the other side of a panel! Please join us for an in-person film screening, hosted by WAHONE (We Are Here Oregon Native Employees), PSU and the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation followed by a panel discussion including Astrid, Oregon Department of Human Services, Kendra Potter and April Newcomb—whose journeys are followed in the film—and director Brooke Pepion Swaney.

DAUGHTER OF A LOST BIRD follows Kendra, an adult Native adoptee, as she reconnects with her birth family, discovers her Lummi heritage, and confronts issues of her own identity. Her singular story echoes many affected by the Indian Child Welfare Act and the Indian Adoption Project (ICWA).

EVENT REGISTRATION

Join Marcescence Magazine as they celebrate their official launch on February 9th and 12th! Virtually connect with other folks, ask questions, and learn more about the publication that aims to trace the movement of power within the adoption, foster care, and child welfare industries. Bring your friends! Register on their website (and sign up for their newsletter or follow on Instagram to stay in touch:)

FEBRUARY 18, 2023 - And We Write! is hosting another writing workshop. Mark your calendars for this new moon in Pisces workshop. Regardless of your writing level, you are welcome to participate. You won’t want to miss out.

CLICK TO REGISTER

SATURDAY, March 25, 2023 at General Industry in NE Portland. This is BIPOC-only event.

DETAILS AND REGISTRATION

Lions Roaring Far From Home: An Anthology by Ethiopian Adoptees includes the essays and poems of 33 writers, ages 8 to over 50, raised in six countries (the US, Canada, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, and Australia). It is the first ever anthology by Ethiopian adoptees.

PURCHASE HERE

Dream Country author Shannon Gibney returns with a new book woven from her true story of growing up as the adopted Black daughter of white parents and the fictional story of Erin Powers, the name Shannon was given at birth by the white woman who gave her up for adoption.

At its core, the novel is a tale of two girls on two different timelines occasionally bridged by a mysterious portal and their shared search for a complete picture of their origins. Gibney surrounds that story with reproductions of her own adoption documents, letters, family photographs, interviews, medical records, and brief essays on the surreal absurdities of the adoptee experience.

The end result is a remarkable portrait of an American experience rarely depicted in any form.

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