This workshop will walk through essential skills for transracial adoptive parenting, provide time for guided self-reflection, and give you opportunities to apply key insights in a safe and encouraging space. As a transracial adoptive parent, you'll undoubtedly face uncomfortable situations - conversations with teachers about racism, discussing grief with your children, or setting boundaries with relatives. This workshop is interactive and will give you a chance to practice getting out of your comfort zone in preparation for engaging in hard topics in the future. Come ready to engage, learn, be challenged, and leave empowered!

As the parent of a transracial adoptee, you have to be ready and willing to address the elephant in the room. How do you talk to your child about their skin color and the racism they may face some day? How do you answer problematic questions from someone at the store?

By gaining confidence and comfort in talking about race and transracial adoption, you can better advocate for your child and model appropriate responses for when they’re old enough to speak for themselves.

In this workshop, we will practice having tough conversations about race and raising a transracial adoptee. We will identify and learn how to respond to instances of interpersonal or structural racism with the people in your community.

Our personal stories of relinquishment, displacement, and loss are deeply connected to historical and contemporary struggles of the global majority. BIPOC adoptees are creating a movement of mutual care, systems change, and empowerment. Whether you're just starting to tell your own story or you're collaborating with others to make a difference, you have a role to play. We each bring our experiences, our differences, and our talents to the common goal of centering, supporting, and healing one another. We get free together; but what does freedom look like, how are we achieving it, and how is our freedom as BIPOC adoptees linked to and contingent upon freedom for other oppressed groups?