Workshops for Adoptive Parents and other Permanent Carers

This page lists our workshops for adoptive parents, special guardians, long term foster carers and other permanent carers. Click on the course title or register tab to view detailed information. You can register via our electronic booking form and pay online. We are unable to take bookings or payments over the phone.

Please note that there may be further seminars open to adoptive parents and other permanent carers, as well as to social workers and other professionals under Public Seminars.

Once you have submitted your registration form you will be taken to a payments option page where you can either pay via debit/credit card for online payments or choose an offline payment option for purchase order payments and cheques. You can submit your registration form and pay via debit/credit card at a later date by clicking here.

Please note, for online payments your booking is not complete until payment is received. We strongly advise you to make payment at the time of submitting your registration form to avoid disappointment as the majority of our courses do sell out.

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Celebrating 10 years of Adopteens - A decade of connection and peer support

Free Event

Date: October 20, 2025

Join us at this FREE to attend online event as we mark 10 incredible years of our Adopteens service - a decade of connection, peer support and amplifying the voices of adopted young people.

This special online event will explore the importance of youth-led services in shaping meaningful change and why listening to young voices matters now more than ever.

We’ll be: Sharing key insights from our 10-year Adopteens Impact Report; Showcasing powerful moments and milestones; Premiering exclusive new footage from our recent anniversary celebration; Highlighting what’s important to our Adopteens members - and their hopes for the future.

Come and celebrate with us, reflect on our journey and most importantly... hear directly from the young people at the heart of it all!

Event start time 11.00am | Event end time 12.00pm

(You will receive an email with Zoom link and joining instructions after completing your booking - please check your Junk folder if not visible in your Inbox)

Availability: Spaces remaining.

Adoption and identity roundtable - Exploring family, identity and belonging

Free Event

Date: October 21, 2025

Join us for this FREE to attend online discussion on family and identity, bringing together adoptees, birth parents and adoptive parents.

Together, we’ll reflect on questions including:

  1. How do adopted people reconcile their birth and adoptive lives/identities?
  2. What is the experience like for those who are transracially adopted?
  3. Can navigating this duality become a source of strength?
  4. How do adoptive and birth parents make sense of their family?

Chaired by Mike Hancock - PAC-UK National Strategic Lead - this roundtable features voices with lived experience from different perspectives. Expect honest conversation with personal views, shared insights and space to think about the complexities of identity in adoption.

Event start time 1.00pm | Event end time 2.00pm

(You will receive an email with Zoom link and joining instructions after completing your booking - please check your Junk folder if not visible in your Inbox)

Availability: Spaces remaining.

Adoption, trauma and the body - Exploring the connection

Free Event

Date: October 22, 2025

This FREE to attend online session offers gentle, supportive insights into understanding your body’s signals - and how to work with them to foster safety, regulation, and wellbeing in daily life.

In this session, adoptee and counsellor Gilli Bruce explores how adoption and early trauma can impact the body - particularly how trauma memories may be stored physically and how the Limbic System and Autonomic Nervous System shape our emotional and physical responses.

We’ll look at:

  1. How the body holds trauma
  2. What happens when the nervous system becomes dysregulated
  3. How to build self-awareness of the body’s responses
  4. Practical ways to support the body in returning to a calmer, more balanced state

Event start time 1.00pm | Event end time 1.45pm

(You will receive an email with Zoom link and joining instructions after completing your booking - please check your Junk folder if not visible in your Inbox)

Availability: Spaces remaining.

Online CPV-NVR Parent Group 47 via Zoom: Weekly online sessions (Wednesday mornings) for adoptive parents and carers of children presenting challenging, destructive and violent behaviour

Price: £2802.00

Date: December 3, 2025

The 8 weekly sessions (except school holidays) for adoptive parents and carers of Children and Young People presenting Challenging, Destructive and Violent Behaviour will take place from 10.00am to 11.30am on Wednesday mornings via Zoom on the following dates:

December 3, 10 & 17
January 7, 14, 21 & 28
February 4

Dates for initial and end review meetings will be agreed with each participant attending.

Availability: Last few spaces only.

Online CPV-NVR Parent Group 48 via Zoom: Weekly online sessions (Thursday lunchtime) for adoptive parents and carers of children presenting challenging, destructive and violent behaviour

Price: £2802.00

Date: December 4, 2025

The 8 weekly sessions (except school holidays) for adoptive parents and carers of Children and Young People presenting Challenging, Destructive and Violent Behaviour will take place from 12.00pm to 1.30pm on Thursday afternoons via Zoom on the following dates:

December 4 & 18
January 8, 15, 22 & 29
February 5 & 12

Dates for initial and end review meetings will be agreed with each participant attending.

Availability: Last few spaces only.

PAC-UK Training service user feedback

There has been no advice as valuable as the ideas and delivery of this course, even if some of it seems alien – hang on in there.Adoptive parent

The parents thoroughly enjoyed the day and found it really helpful.Social worker

Brilliant and amazingly informative. I now have the confidence that the adoption is going to work. Prospective adopter

Excellent day. Really beneficial.Adoptive parent

Very impressed by the quality and the eloquence of the trainer. I feel very hopeful now. An excellent and informative day.Adoptive parent

Thank you. And thank goodness!Adoptive parent

That was a great training course today. Thank you! There was a lot of interaction between all the delegates.Adoptive parent

Just a brief note to say how much I enjoyed the training day. There was lots of opportunity for participation. We had a very nice, mixed group of people which helped a lot and Kim was excellent as she managed to mix audience participation and what she had to say, so well. I feel that I got a lot out of it.Adoptive parent

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