Join us For an In-Person Retreat for Adopted People!
LIVE ADOPTEE RETREATS ARE BACK!
Find Healing, Joy and Inspira3on in a Community of Adoptees...Step into Your Life in a New Way
Where: Davis, California
When: August 25-28, 2022 or
September 1-4, 2022
Schedule: Thursday, 5-8 PM PT
Friday and Saturday, 9-12 and 2-5 PM PT
Sunday, 9-12 PM PT
What: You’ll arrive Thursday evening, and we’ll have a hearty appe3zer spread for you to snack on while we get to know each other and begin to form a sense of community.
Friday and Saturday, with the strength of new friends at your side, we’ll find where each of you organically and naturally is compelled to go for your next step in your life. With a cohort of other adopted people, you’ll have deeper access to courage and agency while you head for an even more vibrant life!
We will provide a nutri3ous, sa3sfying lunch both days, and you can bring your bathing suits and go in the pool during lunch breaks.
In the evenings, we encourage you to go out as a group and share dinner at one of the many terrific restaurants Davis has to offer.
On Sunday, we will have breakfast and solidify what happened over the weekend and make plans for you to stay in contact as a group.
Cost: $1,500, lodging not included Limit: 10 people
About Pam Cordano and Anne Heffron: We met because of Haley Radke and her podcast Adoptees On. (For a taste of our voices, you can listen to Pam on episode 25 and Anne on episode 21.) Our friendship rapidly began to change our lives for the be_er. We
saw each other in ways we’d never been seen by non-adopted friends and this mirroring helped us become even more ourselves, more crea3ve, more courageous. We wanted to share with other adopted people the power of community, so we started in-person retreats. Four years later, we’ve now done retreats in Berkeley, Davis, and Jersey City.
Here’s a link to a blog post Anne wrote aaer a retreat we did in 2018: h_ps:// www.anneheffron.com/blog/2018/2/18/what-people-said-about-our-retreat-beyond- adop3on-you.
When COVID made it impossible to meet in person, we had the idea to do a year-long Zoom class for adopted people called Flourish. The par3cipants of the two classes s3ll meet and independently created a book about their experiences in the group that will be available soon. We are over the moon that we can meet in person again. Zoom is helpful and powerful, but nothing beats being in a room of other adopted people in real life.
To Register: email us at anneheffron@gmail.com and pcordano@comcast.net. We’ll send you some ques3ons to answer about yourself, and a $500 deposit will reserve your place.
With hope and love, Anne and Pam
p.s. If you wrote to me in the past and asked about our retreats, I lost ALL my emails when I thought I was being clever and making more space on my hard drive. I hope you find us here. xo
