"ONE LOVE."
2011 Families Supporting Adoption (FSA) Portland OR conference
Bring friends and family members!
Come bask in the warmth of island aloha with adoptees, birthparents and adoptive couples.
We all share one love, for adoption and each other.
FREE to attend - lunch and snacks included
Keynote Speaker:
Scott Adams, Adoptee and Adoption Attorney
- classes for families that have already adopted
- The Brain in Traumatized Children by Bethany Christian Services
- Teaching your child(ren) to talk about their adoption with confidence voted one of the BEST classes from the 2011 NATIONAL FSA conference
- Being a Great Adoptive Couple
- classes for birthparents
- Not just a birthmom taught by Meg A. (birthmother of 11 yrs)
- 'Grief' taught by Tawnia Singleton from Seattle, WA (caseworker serving birthparents for 20 years)
- classes for couples just starting the adoption process
- Adoption and the Law
- Adopting Through the State
- Getting Oriented to Adoption
- PANELS! birthparent panel: audience questions answered by birth mothers and birth fathers from recent placements --> placing 20 yrs ago
openness panel: learn [more] about openness and continuing a healthy open relationship from
couples and birth parents living in an open adoption
grief panel for birth parents: share with your peers in this eclectic class on creative and healing
ways to deal with the grief associated with placing a child for adoption
Saturday, November 5 9:00am - 5:00pm
Dakota st. LDS building
11065 sw North Dakota st
Tigard, OR
EVEN MORE!
Nov 4, 12-5:00 PM Adoption Education Training @ LDSFS
Nov 4, 7:00 PM Temple Session-meet in the main chapel. say you are with FSA
Nov 4, 7:00 PM "Birthmothers - Fun and Fabulous" Party
Nov 5, 5:30 PM Birthparent Activity
Please RSVP!
Please call or email Michelle
(503) 625-0820–home (971) 235-8455–cell
FSA-OR@ldsfamilyservices.o
NO childcare on site. Please make arrangements for you little ones.
The literal meaning of aloha is “the presence of breath” or “the breath of life.” Aloha is a way of living and treating each other with love and respect. Its deep meaning starts by teaching ourselves to love our own beings first and afterwards to spread the love to others.
According to the old kahunas (priests), being able to live the Spirit of Aloha was a way of reaching self-perfection and realization for our own body and soul. Aloha is sending and receiving a positive energy. Aloha is living in harmony. When you live the Spirit of Aloha, you create positive feelings and thoughts, which are never gone. They exist in space, multiply and spread over to others.
