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Healing Connections: Creative Strategies for Foster & Adopted Teens with Trauma Histories

Discover effective ways to connect and heal with your foster or adopted teens/preteens who have trauma histories in this workshop by Linda Sheppard, MS, FLE. Learn to prioritize connection over obedience, strengthen relationships, and adapt to individual personalities. Utilize a healing parenting strategy focusing on needs and relationships rather than negative behaviors and rules. Equip yourself with tangible tools to nurture relationships and empower your teen to find their voice. Evaluate and adjust your parenting plan to create a supportive environment for healing and growth. Take your parenting journey to the next level by celebrating successes and fostering communication. Find answers and guidance from Linda Sheppard, MS, FLE, from Adoption and Family Counseling Services and Chosen International.

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Healing Connections: Creative Strategies for Foster & Adopted Teens with Trauma Histories

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  1. Chosen InternationalCreative Ways to Connect and Heal with your Foster and Adopted Teens/Preteens with Trauma Histories

  2. Linda Sheppard, MS, FLE

  3. In this Workshop How We Heal Effective Strategies Questions & Answers

  4. Connection over ObedienceOwn Your ChoicesName Your FeelingsNurture YourselfEvaluate Your PlanChange Things UpTake it to the Next Level

  5. What we Have vs. What we Hope For • How many of us have completely happy and obedient foster or adopted teens or preteens?

  6. How do we Find Creative Ways to Connect and Heal with our Teens? • Focus on Need over Behavior • Strengthen Relationship • Have Fun • Get Buy In • Adapt to Personality of Teen

  7. Connection over Obedience Are we focused on obedience over connection? “ The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty” Proverbs 21:5

  8. Traditional Parenting: See Negative Behavior & Create Rules Healing Parenting Strategy: Identify the Need & Strengthen Relationship

  9. Galatians 2:20-21 says, “I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”

  10. What is in Our Toolbox? • Tangible ways to connect with our teens • Simple and easy to do • Teens Heal through Finding their Voice and Developing Relationship

  11. Own Your Choices Give and take ownership God Grant me the Serenity to Accept the Things I cannot change , Change the Things I can, and the Wisdom to Know the Difference

  12. What Can WE do? How are we showing our Teen that their WORDS matter & Change can happen?

  13. Name Your Feeling “When you _______, I felt _________. What I need from you is ___________”. Teens will never heal until they find their Voice. • Find Your Script. Example: I’m strong, I’m smart, I’m happy

  14. Nurture Yourself • Pace Yourself. • What is your daily, weekly, and monthly self care?

  15. Evaluate your Plan • Is your bar too high? • Is your bar too low? • Are we still living in crisis mode? • Create ways to document success.

  16. We mustintentionally ACT on our plan • Assess • How are we assessing? • Change • Tweak our plan continually • Time • When will we reassess? Weekly? Monthly?

  17. Change Things Up • Be a Coach not a Warden. • Keep the momentum going. • How are we getting buy in?

  18. Take it to the Next Level • Raise the Bar gradually. • “Tag” the progress. • Celebrate the Success!

  19. Questions & Answers

  20. Linda Sheppard, MS, FLE Adoption and Family Counseling Services (www.aafcs.net); Chosen International (www.choseninternational.org); adoptioncounseling.blogspot.com; International Mental Health Services (Trainings in Caribbean & Latin America, Offices in Haiti (Port au Prince & Tabarre) Oregon, and remote office via Skype)

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