This four-hour workshop will provide you with: 
- An understanding of the critical role that attachment plays in children’s development
- An opportunity to reflect on your own attachment style and how this may impact your attachment with your child
- An overview of attachment styles, unique attachment issues in adoptive families, signs of an attachment problem, and effective strategies for repairing attachment problems
- Opportunities to practice techniques that you can go home and use with your child. These techniques are designed to address attachment concerns, trauma symptoms, and problems with emotional regulation
- Support from other parents facing similar challenges
This workshop is offered twice a year. For parents of children ages 0-6 and parents of children age 7 and older.
This workshop has also been adapted to meet specific needs of certain groups upon request including foster parents, kinship adoptions, parents who adopted through the state, and parents who adopted children from orphanage settings. Contact info@adoptionmosaic.org to request a customized workshop.
Details: Instructor(s): Ally Burr-Harris
When: October 16, 2010 (Ages 0-6)
Time: 9 am to 1 pm
Where: TBA in Portland, Oregon
Cost: $60 per person, $90 per couple
This class is also offered on a request basis; contact us for details.