In Partnership with San Diego Youth Services

Guest Speakers:

Allison Davis Maxon, LMFT, author of the Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing in Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and consultant on Instant Family. 

Dee Dee Mascareñas, LMFT, has over 30 years experience working with families and children in the field of mental health. She also has the lived experienced as an adoptee from birth.

Description: Your life is a story, write well and edit often! Your child is developing their own narrative and story about their life – what happened and why it happened. Their early trauma, losses and attachment disruptions can easily assist them in becoming a very negative storyteller. Feelings of abandonment, loss, rejection, shame and identity confusion assist them in having a negative self-narrative and an easily triggered emotional interior. Parents will learn skills and tools that are designed to help their child and teen explore, process, think, feel and express themselves as they are empowered to claim all the parts of their story and identity through a strengths-based process of activities and skill building tools.

***continental breakfast and lunch provided***

Registration will close on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 12pm

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Please note, NO CHILDCARE will be provided. Please do not bring children to class.