Becca Dragon – Living Adoption: the Conversation

Becca Dragon – Living Adoption: the ConversationLifelong, Open-Ended, and Connection-Driven Exploration of Adoption with Our Children (payment plan available)This is a 6 class series designed for adoptive parents of children ages 0-10. During these six classes we will explore how to create beauty, meaning, and moments of connection in our homes with adopted children. We will challenge ourselves to drop our anxieties and expectations while fostering an open ended, lifelong conversation about adoption and its impacts. This will be done through self-reflection, community interaction, and hands-on creative exercises.Tuition includes all six classes and lifetime membership in our interactive closed group for participants and graduates of the class.Class One (Explore vs. Explain): Why a conversation?, stop explaining and framing, the vantage point of the child, child development, imagination, “how do I’s”, relationshipClass Two (Rhythm vs. Schedule): senses of the young child, internal and external motivation, ritual, rhythm, beauty, reverence, elevation of the mundaneClass Three (Imagination vs. Information): the 4 temperaments, introduction to container stories, bedtime and importance of bedtime ritualClass Four (Quest vs. Answers): creating the world of the container story, hard feelings and circumstances, emotions and eventsClass Five (Wholeness vs. Duality): sharing our container stories, splintering in adoptees, getting rid of duality, importance of being wholeClass Six (Engagement vs. Education): ongoing self check of motivations, nightly reflection, responsibility for engagement with other adoptive parents, extended family/world at large, issues with Positive Adoption Language, the gift of “angry adoptees”, turning statements into questions**we will be collectively working on container stories for three of these weeks.Your InstructorBecca DragonBecca Dragon is a 7th generation Washingtonian born and adopted in Washington DC at the tail end of the Baby Scoop Era. She was raised on Capitol Hill the oldest in her adoptive family. She is now an urban expat living in Vermont with Mr. Dragon (married 21 years) and is a Mother of Dragons (2 teens and a burgeoning tween). Until recently, Becca homeschooled all three of her children. For over a decade, she was the creator and director of a large CSE (Community Supported Education) program rooted in explorative and creative learning, nature immersion, and inspired by principles of Waldorf Education. She created curriculum and was a classroom and experiential teacher for multiple ages/grades. Prior to motherhood, she worked as a Special Education teacher in a residential school for children with a diversity of psychiatric and behavioral diagnosis; where she created unique individual curriculum to meet her students’ specific needs. She has also taught acting to children and teens since graduating with a BA in Theater from UMASS Amherst. Becca reunited with her biological family (parents, three full siblings, and a large and welcoming extended family) in 2016. She is now writing a book aiming to elevate the adoptee voice called Adoption: Myths, Misgivings, and Mayhem. Her work in the adult adoptee community can be seen on FB and IG on @mythsmisgivings. Living Adoption is her labor of love for little adoptees as they exist right now. Come follow Living Adoption on Instagram and LinkedIn @LivingAdoption. She hopes to walk alongside adoptive parents in a supportive and relational way; helping them to connect more deeply with and understand their adopted children through natural parenting and the art of allowing.Course CurriculumIntroductionJoin the Discussion GroupExplore vs. ExplainClass 1 OverviewIntroduction to Living AdoptionExercise 1Exercise 2Exercise 3Resources & Extended ReadingRhythm vs. ScheduleClass 2 OverviewClass 2 AudioWorksheet 1Worksheet 2Worksheet 3Resources & Extended ReadingImagination vs. InformationClass 3 OverviewClass 3 AudioWorksheet 1Worksheet 2Worksheet 3Resources & Extended ReadingQuest vs. AnswersClass 4 OverviewClass 4 AudioWorksheet 1Worksheet 2Worksheet 3Resources & Extended ReadingWholeness vs DualityClass 5 OverviewClass 5 AudioWorksheet 1Worksheet 2Worksheet 3Resources & Extended ReadingEngagement vs. EducationClass 6 OverviewClass 6 Audio