E08: Dealing With The Hard Stuff Within Transracial Adoption: An Interview with April Dinwoodie
Dr. Laura Anderson invites April Dinwoodie to the mic in this week's episode of The Real World Parenting Podcast. April Dinwoodie is an accomplished corporate marketing and branding professional turned nationally-recognized voice on adoption, foster care, and multiracial/multicultural families. From creating a mentoring program for youth in foster care to becoming the CEO of the Donaldson Adoption Institute (DAI), April is a fiercely dedicated leader helping individuals, systems, and corporations as they address the urgent and age-old questions of identity, values, and differences of race, culture, and class. Dinwoodie hosts “Born in June, Raised in April: What Adoption Can Teach the World!” a podcast to educate and inspire conversation about adoption, identity, and family diversity. April brings authenticity, curiosity, empathy, and a whole lot of candor to the conversation this week. She shares the key principles she lives by, and tools for both adoptees and parents to hold a space to process, be seen, and heard. What you will learn:
What you can do in conversations to make space for what is going on in your child's mind
Tips to plan ahead for potentially hard family gatherings
How to make space for the reality that intense hard feelings live side by side with intense joy
The importance of centering adoptee voices and find other folks on this journey
Links:
FaceBook: @bornjuneraisedapril @aprildinwoodie
Twitter/Instagram: @juneinapril
Podcast: Born in June Raised in April
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