Join us November 8th 2025 for We the Experts: Adoptees Reconnecting After Estrangement!

Reconnection after estrangement is rarely linear. For adoptees, both deciding to go low to no contact with their adoptive parent(s) family and deciding to reconnect are two extremely vulnerable and complex aspects of estrangement. This We the Experts panel brings together adoptees who have experienced reconnection after periods of distance, low to no contact, and separation. Through personal stories and honest reflection, panelists will explore what motivated them to reconnect, what challenges and emotions arose along the way, and how they’ve defined healing, boundaries, and belonging for themselves. Whether reconnection led to deeper understanding, new complexity, or an ongoing process, this conversation invites our community to hold space for all outcomes with empathy and curiosity.

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Join us in Portland, OR at Core PDX Bar and Food Carts for an intimate evening with author Kit Myers, as we gather in community for a reading and thoughtful conversation around his powerful book, The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States.

This event is open to both adoptees and non-adoptees, with an adoptee-centered focus.

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Our 2nd Mosaic Mixer of 2025!

This is a space where adoptees can connect with other adoptees and share about any projects, events, campaigns, etc.

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Renew and strengthen your connection with the adult adoptee in your life.

In this course participants will:

• Reflect on why we chose adoption, and what we have learned over decades of raising children 

• Dig into the challenges of talking about race, the adoption industry, gratitude, anger, adoption fog, search, and reunion 

• Practice talking about these adoption issues with your adult children and with others, in ways that are clear, respectful, and helpful.

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Become an ally and trusted support person to the transracial adoptee in your life!

In this course you will learn about:

• The struggle for identity of transracial adoptees

• The role race & racism play in your family and community

• How to talk age-appropriately about race & racism

• The history of race & adoption in the U.S.

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This panel features adult adoptees who will share their experiences with disordered eating. Each story explores how adoption—particularly the trauma of loss—can shape one’s relationship with the body. For some, disordered eating becomes a way to cope with trauma, silence, or disconnection. This conversation will explore how adoption can impact our relationship with our body and the struggle to inhabit a body that may have always felt disconnected from identity and belonging. Join us as we hold space for grief, healing, and the ongoing process of making sense of one's self in a world where biology, history, and identity are often fragmented or erased.

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Join us for a cozy, adoptee-only gathering with fresh wood-fired pizza and a special conversation led by Melissa L. Bennett, a transracial adoptee, storyteller, and community healer. We'll explore how food connects us to land, ancestry, and identity—especially for BIPOC and transnational adoptees. All adoptees are welcome.

A special thank you to Metro Parks and Nature's Community Partnerships for funding this social!

This is an adoptee-only event.

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An evening in Portland, Oregon for all adoptees (this is not a BIPOC exclusive event) to gather in a space filled with connection, conversation, and dessert. Whether you’re in town for the BIPOC Adoptee Voices Conference, or are a PDX local, we’d love to have you join us.

This event proudly brought to you in a collaboration between Adoption Mosaic, AIREroots, and The Ties Program.

This is an adoptee-only event. Exact address provided upon registration. All times in Pacific Standard.

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A space for BIPOC Adoptee Voices Conference (BIPOC adoptees) to connect, recharge, and be in community. Whether you're looking to process the conference, meet new people, or just be around those who get it—we hope you'll join us. Please note that this event is no-host.

This is a BIPOC adoptee-only event.

Location:
The Cheerful Tortoise
1939 SW 6th Ave, Portland, OR 97201

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Join us for a special edition of our Adoptee-Only Social: Adoptees Got Talent! Come and cheer others on, hang with fellow adoptees, and eat some delicious food.

This is an in-person, adoptee-only event in Portland, OR.

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We’re teaming up with Adoptees United for their next Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon on Sunday, June 1, 2025 at 1pm PT. Join us to challenge and change the dominant narrative of adoption. 

Everyone is welcome to attend this virtual event to see what it is all about. After a refresher, we’ll shift toward working sessions where we will edit articles, discuss changes and additions, and plan for the next time we get together.

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This We the Experts is our second Non-Adoptee Speaker Series Panel of 2025. It will feature scholars who study adoption and adoptees. The panel will explore how scholars positioned outside the adoptee experience navigate inclusion, adoptee-centered narratives, and their own relationship to the adoption community. Join us as we listen and learn from these amazing panelists who will give us some insight into their studies, research, and writing.

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Wondering why your relationship with the adoptee in your life has changed? What happened to the happy child you used to know? Conscious Adoption: Navigating Estrangement is an eight-session online course for adoptive parents wanting to better understand how to process and manage any level of estrangement with the adoptee in their lives.

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April’s We the Experts will feature Adoptees discussing their experiences with physical disabilities. Come join us!

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Learn more about We the Experts: adoptionmosaic.com/we-the-experts

March’s We the Experts will feature Adoptee Storytellers in their myriad of roles such as authors, poets, public speakers, artists, and other creative outlets of sharing one’s story. Storytelling is so essential to our community whose narrative has historically been written by outside or adjacent counterparts with the intention of shaping the story as positive and marketable. Adoptees are a marginalized group who deserve to share their experiences just as they are, without the rainbows and unicorns. Join us as we make space for each adoptee’s authentic journey of storytelling.

Registration link: https://bit.ly/WTE-Storytellers-Reg

Learn more about We the Experts: adoptionmosaic.com/we-the-experts

Adoptee Beacon, our estrangement support group for adoptees, begins!

Find out more here: https://adoptionmosaic.com/adoptee-beacon

Come join us in-person in Portland, Oregon on March 1st from 5:30-10pm PT for our Spring Adoptee-Only Social! Our adoptee-only socials are a time to gather and share meals, stories, and community. Come to relax, meet other adoptees, eat, and have a good time!

Registration link: https://bit.ly/SocialReg032025

Registration link: bit.ly/02-2025SiblingsOfReg

Learn more about We the Experts: adoptionmosaic.com/we-the-experts

Every child deserves to know about their origins, their story, and why they came to be part of their adoptive family.

Are you prepared to talk about adoption in a way that is full of complexity and nuance from the moment your child joins your family?

Facilitators: Astrid Castro, Sujata Soni-Wipper, and Jennifer Poole

https://adoptionmosaic.com/lifelong-tools-for-successful-parenting

https://bit.ly/llt-reg-2025

Registration link: https://bit.ly/wte-1224-infertility-reg

Learn more about We the Experts: adoptionmosaic.com/we-the-experts

Registration link: https://bit.ly/wte-na-bfparents-open-reg

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Registration link: https://bit.ly/wte-1124-abolition-reg

Learn more about We the Experts: adoptionmosaic.com/we-the-experts

https://programs.adoptionmosaic.com/mosaic-mixer-landing-2024

(6 sessions)

When your kids are adults there is often the false notion you no longer need to talk about adoption.

Join us to reflect on your story, tackle more challenging topics together, and practice talking with your adult adoptee and others about these adoption issues.

Facilitators: Astrid Castro and Maureen McCauley

www.adoptionmosaic.com/seasoned-parents

https://bit.ly/seasoned-parents-reg-2024