Not with a book. Not with a framework. With someone who grew up inside this exact experience and can tell you what it actually felt like from the inside out.
White adoptive parents come to me when something is happening in their family that they cannot figure out on their own. Their child is pulling away. A conversation went sideways and they do not know why. They can feel that something is off, but they cannot name it. That is exactly the kind of situation I work through with parents in a private, one-on-one video session. Sessions are 60 minutes. We talk through what is actually going on, not a generalized version of it.
Coaching is for you if:
I speak to adoption agencies, parent groups, educators, faith communities, and organizations that are ready to stop talking around transracial adoption and start talking honestly about it. I am not there to make a room feel good about itself. I am there to give people a clear picture of what a Black child raised in a white family actually experiences, what helps, what damages, and what most parents are never told before they bring that child home. That shift in understanding is what I create when I speak.
I speak on:
"I'm not presenting data about someone else's experience. I'm sharing mine. And there is a difference between a room that has been informed and a room that has genuinely understood something for the first time. That second thing is what I'm after."— Michael Gaither
If you are ready to have a real conversation about what is happening in your family, or if you want to bring that conversation to your organization, reach out directly. Tell me what is going on and we will go from there.