It can cast a shadow over our lives, making it hard to see a way forward.
THRIVE is designed to demystify trauma and empower you with tools to navigate it—whether you’re an adoptee, an adoptive parent, an adoption professional or a birth parent.
What You’ll Gain:
🔹 Trauma: We explore the different layers of trauma within the adoption constellation and how understanding it can lessen fear. Using simple yet powerful metaphors, we’ll help you to a more empowering trauma—not as something that defines us, but as something we can create space around and move beyond. Not as a curse but a gift that allows us to understand others, empathise with them, communicate more effectively and, ultimately, to enjoy better relationships with those we love or serve.
🔹 Healing: Shift from trauma education to healing education. Insights from 500+ adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents and professionals help accelerate our own healing. Seeing that we are whole underneath our trauma, seeing others are too. Feeling complete and intact. Enough. More than enough.
🔹 Resilience: It’s not about what happened to us—it’s about what we do with it. Turning the muck of the past into manure to fertilise our growth. Recognising the strength we 've always had and yet somehow haven't seen before. Get triggered less, recover faster, and bounce back better. And support others so that they can do the same.
🔹 Identity: Who are we, really? Adoptees often struggle with identity and adoptive parents may feel “less than.” Getting clarity on our self and boosting our self esteem. Let’s uncover and appreciate our infinite worth. Peeling back the layers of our experience to reveal the very essence of who we are. That part of us that's untouched by trauma, pristine and fresh.
🔹 Vision: The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence. Are you stuck firefighting daily struggles? Let's shift our focus to tomorrow and beyond. Gain clarity, set a compelling vision for the future, and build momentum to move forward whether that's personally, professionally or for our family.
🔹 Empowerment: True healing leads to empowerment—not just for ourselves, but for those around us. Whether you’re an adoptee, a parent, or a professional, learn how to transform your pain into purpose and of you're on that path already how to speed up your progress along your journey by getting out of your own way.
Who Should Watch?
✔️ Adoptees seeking deeper healing and self-awareness
✔️ Adoptive parents navigating trauma within their family
✔️ Adoption professionals looking to better support their clients
✔️ Birth parents invested in making healing and growth a reality
Join us for an insightful, transformative experience that will leave you feeling empowered, inspired and ready to THRIVE.
Here's a bit about me...
I'm Simon Benn, an adoptee, podcaster and trainer. My sole purpose is to explore what helps adoptees thrive and share that as widely as possible.
I was adopted at 5 weeks old and told so young I don't ever remember not knowing.
All went well until I found out that my teddy bear was a gift from my birth mother when I was 40.
That unleashed an eruption of anger, feeling rejected and unloved. That led to a quest to heal, healing and a desire to help others.
My trainings are based on what I've learned interviewing over 500 adoptees, adoptive parents, adoption professionals and birth mothers.
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