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"Great
host, great food and a wealth of up-to-date information
was shared at a recent Millerton workshop. Michael's
professional and personal experience, along with a relax
atmosphere, was an exceptional time for pre-adoptive
couples to really explore issues, ask questions and
learn more about parenting through adoption."
Jo Ann Turner, Co-Director, Friends in
Adoption.
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Workshops
Weekend workshops are held at Trowbridge House giving
people an opportunity to learn more about adoptive parenting
and what it means to a child to be adopted. The extended
period of time gives us a chance to delve more deeply
into the role that adoption plays for members of a family
formed through adoption and a chance to share experiences
with others who are adoptive or pre-adoptive parents.
The weekends are led by Michael Colberg J.D., C.S.W.
His professional life is dedicated to helping adoptive
parents become the best parents that they
can be. His experience as both an adoption professional
and as an adoptive
parent enable him to bring his own uniquely intuitive,
compassionate, straight forward and bold approach to
the task of making sure that people leave the weekend
feeling better informed, and more empowered. He also
challenges parents to be all that they can be.
The more that one experiences the true nature of adoption,
the more interesting and complicated the subject becomes.
Each weekend is designed to communicate enough about
adoption as a whole so that a context is created for
placing emphasis upon a particular aspect of adoption.
What is going on now?
What are the lifelong developmental tasks facing members
of families formed through adoption? How does each layer
of diversity complicate and add richness to a family's
experience? The weekend provides an atmosphere where
people can take time to become relaxed enough to focus
in on what is most important to them - their families.
The weekends begin on Friday evening. People arrive,
get settled, have
some wine, some dinner and unwind. Once assembled, we
go over the weekend schedule and begin the program.
Because the weekends are intended to give people a chance
to think of and ask the questions that under other circumstances
they wish they would have thought of - we take the time
to listen to what each person wants to get out of the
weekend. The intention is to make the
weekend as much about the attendees needs as possible.
By the end of the evening, everyone has food for thought.
The rest of the weekend curriculum is set up to expand
attendees knowledge about parenting and their consciousness
about their own needs, their partner's needs and their
child's needs.
Trowbridge House is a beautiful setting for the weekends
and convenient to many parts of the Northeast. |
