Testimonials
“Adoption Mosaic creates much-needed safe spaces for adoptees and provides incredible resources for the adoption community and beyond! As a transracial international adoptee, I could not recommend an organization more. Very thankful and appreciative for Astrid and the amazing Adoption Mosaic team for all of their hard work!”
- Kira Ormans, adoptee
I met Astrid and Adoption Mosaic about a year ago now, at one of my first adoptee events I had ever attended. Everything was new to me, being in adoptee spaces, exploring my adoptee identity, meeting other adoptees and talking about shared and unique life experiences.
At this particular time, I was in the midst of a reckoning with my own identity, figuring out, as a 32-year old transracial adoptee, how to navigate my relationship with my parents during a time when I was coming into my racial and cultural consciousness. It was a pretty difficult year.
Astrid and Adoption Mosaic has a commitment to creating community-based resources for adoptees, that I have not seen elsewhere. They provide resources that adoptees and adoptive families need. They are a critical fixture in the adoptee community. They are people-centric, and care about each and every relationship they foster.
Adoption Mosaic has played an important role in my own healing journey, and has also provided a launching pad for healing within my family. Thank you so much for the continued support, it has truly been invaluable.
- Gene Rush, adoptee
We absolutely enjoyed working with Astrid and Adoption Mosaic. Astrid is a phenomenal trainer. Incredibly passionate, authentic, and exudes an air of trust and comfort encouraging engagement from participants on difficult topics. Astrid is just over all the real deal. She describes very complex issues in ways that make sense to participants, makes them easily understandable and puts them into context. We look forward to the day/s we work with Astrid/Adoption Mosaic again because the experience is one of a kind.
- Grossmont College
As a first mother, Astrid's insights and intellectual generosity have deepened my understanding of the complexity of adoption. Thank you for everything you do.
- Lynn Zubov, first mother
My adoption was a very complicated one with lots of twists and turns into the story. Astrid was phenomenal in reuniting me and my bio mom. She helped us navigate the complicated facts of my adoption with sensitivity. I learned so much from Adoption Mosaic. I cannot thank Astrid enough. My bio Mom And I have an amazing relationship and I cannot thank Astrid enough for her help!
- Debbie Earl, adoptee
I recently completed the Seasoned Parents course offered by Adoption Mosaic. I was looking for a lifeline to better understand our adult adoptees. I recommend this course to any adoptive parent with an adult adoptee. The course focuses on education and communication. You will find yourself in an environment with trained professionals and a community of parents eager to share their experiences. I just wish this organization and course had been available when we first adopted.
- Lynn Lanham, adoptive parent
Adoption Mosaic has been a tremendous resource personally and professionally. Astrid, Shelise, and the rest of the team provide a warm and welcoming environment for adoptees to find support, resources and connection. I couldn’t have asked for a better entry point into having community among other adoptees and members of the adoption constellation. Adoption Mosaic is a treasure!
- Nomi Kaie, adoptee
As an adoptive parent who took the Seasoned Parents course, participates in a Better Together weekly co-learning group, and learns from monthly panels, Adoption Mosaic has been a revelatory online and personal resource for me to learn about the issues, trauma, fears and potential for healing and growth that adult adoptees face. AM is not only a doorway to the most relevant and trustable information. It is also a safe, loving space to learn from many adoptees about their experiences. All of this has been invaluable for me to become a better source of support and understanding for my adopted daughter, improve our strained relationship, and offer choices and possibilities for her search and healing. The advice and support I receive from the AM staff and the close community of adoptive parents that are growing together is always compassionate, on-target, and reassures me with hopeful, steady ways forward. This has been the best investment of funds and time I could have made, and I only wish this brilliant organization had been there for me when I first considered adoption and in the early years.
- Beth Stewart, adoptive parent
Adoption Mosaic is a truly life-changing organization. I've been on my adoptee identity journey, and came across one of their We The Experts panels that helped me have a major breakthrough in this process. Can't recommend the organization enough!
- Lauren Bacon, adoptee
Adoption Mosaic has helped me and my family for 20 years! Before adopting, we took their transracial parenting course. Now we've graduated to their seasoned parents course. We've also turned to them to mentor our adopted son.
Adoption is an incredibly complex and challenging journey, especially transracial adoption. I don't know what we would have done without them. I look forward to continuing to take courses and being involved in the community.
A heartfelt thanks to all of the adoptees, adoptive parents and professionals who provide their expertise and compassion through Adoption Mosaic!
- Helen Berry, adoptive parent
Adoption Mosaic has been a powerful experience for me as an adoptive parent and a former adoption professional. My husband and I participated in the "Seasoned Adoptive Parents" course a couple of years ago, and I have listened to many adoptee panels. I have learned so much despite the extensive education I had previously completed. The care with which the adoptee-centered environment has been created is inspiring. As parents and other loved ones, we are welcomed-- and we are gifted to hear the stories of adoptees without interruption from non-adoptees. I have learned so much from hearing all the stories of adoptees. I strongly encourage other adoptive parents to listen and learn!
- Denise Sterchi, adoptive parent
I'm a Late Discovery Adoptee...I wish I had discovered Adoption Mosaic at the beginning of my journey. This is a stellar organization, headed by phenomenal people who care greatly, and offer a safe place to seek out unique paths towards healing.
- Carlyn Montes de Oca, late discovery adoptee
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