Course Description

Welcome to Table Talks, a course series designed to bring honest, grace-filled conversations to the heart of adoption. Each story of adoption is layered, lifelong, and deeply personal. This Table Talks series is designed to help adoptive parents, birth parents, and professionals understand the complex realities that shape adoption experiences across the entire triad. Through compassionate teaching, lived experience, and practical tools, these courses explore the often-unspoken challenges of grief, identity, expectations, and relationships within adoption. Whether you're preparing to adopt, currently parenting, or supporting others in the triad, this series will equip you with the insight and empathy needed to walk this road with honesty, humility, and hope.

Curriculum

6 Chapters · 14 Lessons

  1. 1
    1. (Included in full purchase)

      Welcome to Table Talks!

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      Understanding the Perspectives at the Table

  2. 2
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      Grief and Loss, Part 1

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      Grief and Loss, Part 2

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      Section Summary

  3. 3
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      Open Adoption

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      Section Summary

  4. 4
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      What the Adoption Triad Wants You to Know, Part 1

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      What the Adoption Triad Wants You to Know, Part 2

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      Section Summary

  5. 5
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      Expectations

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      Section Summary

  6. 6
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      Adoptee Identity

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      Section Summary

Throughout this series, you’ll gain insight, tools, and perspective to navigate adoption with greater understanding and empathy.

Each session offers a unique lens into the lived experiences of adoptive parents, birth parents, and adoptees, equipping you to build healthier relationships and support systems within the adoption triad.

What You'll Learn

• Recognize and honor the grief and loss experienced by all members of the adoption triad • Understand open adoption beyond definitions through real-life perspectives and evolving relationships • Explore how expectations in adoption can range from reasonable to unrealistic and how to work towards understanding and empathy on all sides • Hear directly from voices in the triad about what they wish others understood • Support adoptee identity formation at every stage of life with compassion and intention

About the Panelists

Jessie Mattos – Director of Birth Mother Programs at Abiding Love Charities; Birth Mother Kerri Seigrist– Birth Mother Advocate at Abiding Love Adoptions, Adoptive Mother, Adoptee Myrléne Mondesir – Director of Adoptee Services at Abiding Love Charities; Transracial Adoptee Delora Credle – Former Seen Program Manager at Abiding Love Charities; Birth Mother Carrie Murray Nellis – Executive Director, Abiding Love Adoptions & Charities Montse TerMarsch – Former Birth Mother Advocate at Abiding Love Adoptions; Adoptive Mother

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