**ORPARC Training** Compassionate CoParenting: Creating Connections with Birth and First Families

Registration open!

Birth families are always present - sometimes physically, but not always energetically and emotionally. Resource/ foster, adoptive and guardianship parents can apply everything they know about the impact of trauma to their children’s birthparents, allowing them to lean into that relationship with connection, compassion, and boundaries. Changing the way we see birth family is good for the children who are a part of both foster/adoptive parents and birthparents.

Participants will be able to

• describe the relationship between trauma and behavior in birth families
• identify appropriate boundaries that will encourage safe relationships
• help their child understand- not excuse- birth family behavior

Presented by Robyn Gobbel:

Robyn Gobbel, MSW, loves coffee, P!NK, and everything about the brain. Robyn loves cultivating deep, resonant connections with anyone who is up for it, and is especially fond of all the grown-ups in the world who love and care for kids impacted by trauma-helpers, healers, educators, and parents. Her favorite thing ever (besides glittery coffee mugs) is teaching anyone who will listen to harness the power of neuroscience so they can cultivate deep, resonant connections. You can get your hands on all sorts of free resources at www.RobynGobbel.com, including her podcast, "The Baffling Behavior Show with Robyn Gobbel."