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All events are open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Adoption Speaker- Event for Adoption
Each talk is presented with power point, participant lecture handouts, and small group questions (if this format is desired). CEU'S have been earned by social workers wherever she has spoken. |
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Sherrie's Bio
Sherrie's Speaking Bio
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What Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed
(Duration: One Hour)
Based on Sherrie's new book Twenty Things Adoptive Parents Need to Succeed, you will learn how to re-define success, adoption style! Sherrie interviewed nearly 100 parents for this book. They are the experts who bared their souls in hopes of helping parents who are struggling. Learn from them what is normal! At the end of every chapter is a section called "Listen to Your Child's Heart," which contains thoughts of from infancy to adult adoptees. Sherrie will help you to:
- Take your parenting to the next level.
- Learn your child's heart language and enhance your communications.
- Provide practical ways to put truth into action with your family.
- Live in a non-adoptive world with adoption savvy.
- See the speck of potential in your adopted/foster child's eyes.
Adoption Event Speaker
Never Forgotten!
(Duration: Keynote: One Hour)
From all human aspects, Sherrie's life wasn't planned nor was she welcomed into the world. In fact, her life was seemingly a mistake because her birth mother was raped. Join her as she shares her compelling story about adoption, reunion, rejection, and redemption. If you are planning a pro-life event, this talk shouts the power, sovereignty, and protection of the triune God who gives each orphan, like Sherrie, an awesome legacy. Sherrie will communicate:
- That each person's life is God's idea.
- That facing one's greatest fear causes growth, no matter the outcome.
- That God redeems rejection and turns misery into ministry.
- That God's Word is powerful and brings healing to life's hurts.
What Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
(Duration: One Hour)
Based on the best-selling Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew, Sherrie shares three of the twenty things: I suffered a profound loss before I was adopted, I experience emotional vulnerabilities, I need your help in resolving my loss. This is the foundational talk for parenting and usually is the first talk for day-long seminars. Sherrie will help you:
- Meet the emotional needs that your adopted child has trouble expressing.
- Remove misplaced guilt and love your child without reservation.
- Help your adopted child process loss and grief effectively.
- React wisely when your adopted child exhibits misdirected emotions.
- Increase a sense of closeness between you and your adopted child.
- Initiate conversations with your adopted child that foster the healing process.
- Build your adopted child's individual confidence by celebrating your differences.
- Provide love in ways that your adopted child can receive.
- Value the role of birth parents without feeling insecure.
- Create an environment where your adopted child feels safe.
Help Your Kids with BIG Emotions without Having a Meltdown Yourself!
(Duration: One and One-Half Hour)
It's clear to parents after the first talk listed above that their children need help with the grieving process. Sherrie will share a practical tool that you can use with your children to help them not get stuck in anger and sadness. She will show you how you and your child's sadness can, causing you to grow and become resilient.
There is a special handout you'll receive to help you and your child with this adoption project. Sherrie also weaves her personal, compelling narrative into this teaching, showing how her grief has become a gift. Sherrie will help you experience:
- A tool to grieve your own losses so that you can parent wholeheartedly.
- A project to do with your child that will help him/her process big emotions.
- Hope that your child can and will grow in and through adoption loss.
What's a Parent to Do When Her Kid Says "Adoption's No Big Deal?"
(Duration: One Hour)
Does your adopted child ever say, "I don't want to talk about adoption? It's no big deal! Why do you keep asking me?" Sometimes, adoptive parents feel like a phlebotomist, trying to extract blood from someone with spaghetti veins. Based on the 2009 book Questions Adoptees Are Asking, this talk is filled with information that validates the adoptee's life experience, from the womb to the tomb! Parents will understand their children in new ways and be able to better meet their needs. Sherrie will help you experience:
- An awareness of what your child fears most and ways to create openness.
- New understanding of how to meet your child "where he is."
- Biblical principles that bring peace for complex issues.
- A tool that every parent needs for post-adoption growth.
How and When Do I Tell My Child that He/She Was Adopted?
(Duration: One Hour)
Learn the answer to the most frequently asked question of adoptive parents! Drawn from Sherrie's children's book Forever Fingerprints: An Amazing Discovery for Adopted Children, you will learn how to initiate conversations with your children in creative ways. As difficult as it may be to believe, experts confirm that an adoptee's need to have a physical sense of connection with the birth parents. This need can be likened to a starving man looking for food. Find the way to fulfill this need for your child and deepen your relationship with him/her at the same time. Sherrie will help you experience:
- Reduced fear about talking with your child about adoption.
- Learn ways to start discussions with your adopted child about their past.
- Enhanced freedom for your child to ask questions about birth parents and the birth experience.
- Deepened sense of connection between you and your adopted child.
- New ways to make your adopted child feel special
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