by CeliaCenter | Jan 23, 2023
FREE Monthly IN-PERSON open playgroup at a Home in Encino.
A play group gathering for parents of children ages 0-9, connected by foster care – adoption, to gather, play, and meet other families with similar backgrounds builds strong bonds, connections, and bridge support.
The group is facilitated by Foster-Adoptive Parent, Meredith Morton.
2 pm – 4:00 pm Pacific Time
Pizza will be served
For questions email info@celiacenter.org
Please register below to receive the address and directions to the home.
by CeliaCenter | Jan 23, 2023
A monthly support group and gathering for parents and children, ages 9-13, and siblings welcome connected by Transracial adoption, to create community and meet other families with similar backgrounds to build strong bonds, connections, and bridge support.
FREE Monthly IN-PERSON open group at a Home in Westchester/LAX vicinity.
The group is facilitated by Adoptive Parents, Leslie Snyder and Rachel Kaufman.
For questions email info@celiacenter.org
Please register below to receive your map and directions to the home
The group is facilitated by Adoptive Parents, Leslie Snyder and Rachel Kaufman
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm Pacific Time
Pizza will be served.
For questions email info@celiacenter.org
Please register below to receive your map and directions to the home.
by CeliaCenter | Jan 23, 2023
FREE monthly open support group for MEMBERS of the Adoption Constellation.
Addiction and Adoption Constellation Support Groups honor all paths to recovery, acknowledging that each person’s journey is unique and reflects their personal experiences and strengths. All constellation members are welcome to attend.
Addiction and Adoption Constellation Support Groups meetings are hosted by a professional with expertise in recovery and adoption, both professional and lived. These facilitated discussions provide an opportunity to give and receive social support that focuses on the hope and healing found in recovery, as well as to connect with others with shared goals of initiating and maintaining healthy choices and a recovery lifestyle.
This is a mutual self-help social support group, not a therapeutic process group. Our group focus is to have a conversation with each other and learn more about recovery from addiction. This group is for anyone who has suffered from addiction to a substance or unhealthy behavior and/or has been affected by the symptoms and/or disease of addiction, which includes family and friends. Our goal is to achieve long-term recovery (defined by SAMHSA as “A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential”), sharing what we have learned from many paths and diverse recovery-based programs.
TUESDAY
5:30 pm – 7 pm PST
8:30 pm – 10 pm EST
Time and place are also shown in the Events Calendar. Meetings will be held virtually via ZOOM until further notice.
Please register below to receive your ZOOM link for the event.
David B. Bohl, M.A., C.S.A.C., M.A.C. BIO:
David is a Clinical Substance Abuse Counselor, Master Addiction Counselor, Independent Addiction and Recovery Consultant, and Relinquishment and Adoption Consultant at Beacon Confidential LLC, he is co-author of the monograph Relinquishment and Addiction: What Trauma Has To Do With It, and the award-winning memoir Parallel Universes—The Story of Rebirth, which chronicles the author’s experiences within the intersection of adoption and addiction. He is a member of the National Association for Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC), and an Advisory Board Member of Wisconsin Adoption and Permanency Support.
David was relinquished, adopted, and currently lives in southeastern Wisconsin and works around the country and world. He enjoys spending time with his wife of 38 years. He relentlessly pursues the Blue Mind (that mildly meditative state characterized by calm, peace, unity, and a sense of general happiness and satisfaction with life at the moment) that comes from being in and around the water.
https://davidbbohl.com/
THERESA KNORR, CARC RCP
Theresa is an adopted person, a family member in recovery, and a family member of loss, and she works her own process addiction and mental health (relinquishment trauma) recovery program. She obtained her OBC in January 2020 and reunited with her biological family members shortly after that.
Theresa has over 30 years of professional experience in counseling, coaching, and case management, primarily in addiction treatment and recovery. As a former Credentialed Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC) in New York and CADAC in Arizona, Theresa has been a clinician, a clinical supervisor, and a program director. She is now a Certified Addiction Recovery Coach (CARC) and CCAR-designated Recovery Coach Professional (RCP).
Theresa has been teaching, training & developing a curriculum focused on wellness, self-care, and personal growth for more than 20 years. She has volunteered in the community teaching meditation, tai chi, and esoteric psychology for over 20 years and has co-facilitated the Adoptee Paths to Recovery mutual support group for NAAP with David B. Bohl for over a year.
by CeliaCenter | Jan 8, 2023
FREE monthly open support group for Foster Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Kinship Families. Ages 18 and above.
A place for the Adoption & Foster Care community to come together to share stories, thoughts, feelings, and ideas, receive psycho-education, process grief/loss, and build strong bonds and connections.
The group is facilitated by Phil Weglarz, Adoptive parent, Psychotherapist/Expressive Arts Therapist, and Adoption Researcher.
7 pm – 8:30 pm Pacific Time
Time and place are shown in the Events Calendar. Meetings will be held virtually via ZOOM until further notice.
Please register below to receive your ZOOM link for the event.
Phil Weglarz BIO:
In 2013, Phil Weglarz became a first-time parent of an infant through a private, local same-race adoption with an ongoing direct two-way relationship with his daughter’s birth mother. Prior to this, he had professional experience as an attachment-based play therapist and parent coach for birth/first parents seeking reunification, and foster-to-adoptive parents in an agency that specialized in working with children with co-occurring mental health and learning challenges.
Phil’s interest and specialty have always been trauma-informed, sensory-based, and creative modalities for parent-child and peer-to-peer engagement. He currently serves as core faculty and program chair for the Expressive Arts Therapy program at the California Institute of Integral Studies, based in San Francisco. Most recently, he completed a Ph.D. dissertation entitled, “Kaleidoscopes of Kinship: A Narrative Inquiry of Birth Fathers’ and Adoptive Fathers’ Experiences of Open Adoptions” (2022), in which he interviewed 5 birth fathers and 23 adoptive fathers about what it is like for them to belong to families created through foster care or private adoptions. This work has already been recognized by the Rudd Adoption Research Program at UMass-Amherst, and he will be sharing these intimate stories of men’s perspectives of adoption in various ways soon.
by CeliaCenter | Jan 8, 2023
FREE monthly open support group for ADULT ADOPTEE MEMBERS of the Adoption Constellation.
A place for Adult Adoptees to come together to share stories, feelings, and ideas; to receive psycho-education, process grief/loss, build strong bonds and connections.
WEDNESDAY
5 pm – 7 pm PDT
8 – 10 pm EDT
Time and place are also shown in the Events Calendar. Meetings held virtually via ZOOM until further notice.
Please register below to receive your ZOOM link for the event.
Cathy Leckie Koley BIO:
Trauma-Sensitive Yoga Instructor, Adoptee Speaker/ Writer / Educator. After reuniting with her birth family at age 43, Cathy found herself on an unexpected healing journey related to her own relinquishment. The process included yoga, through which she found significant healing, and a new career path.
As a yoga teacher since 2012, Cathy now teaches others about the adoptee experience, strategies for unearthing and healing adoption wounds, and mind-body practices that help with adoption-related difficulties. She trained in Trauma-Sensitive in 2014 with Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score, and David Emerson, author of Overcoming Trauma through Yoga.
Cathy is currently pursuing an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
