Introducing Ties Together Monthly Chats: A Space for Adoptees and Their Loved Ones

We’re thrilled to launch Ties Together: Monthly Chats, a new virtual gathering space for adoptees and their loved ones! At 7PM Central on Tuesday, August 3, we will host our inaugural online Connect & Chat for adoptees and Talk Time for the loved ones who walk alongside them.

If you’re an alumni of our Ties group travel experiences, you may remember the meaningful CC & TT sessions that were part of your homeland journey. Listening to your feedback and reflecting on how to continue supporting our Ties family—and the wider adoption community—we realized it was time to bring these spaces into regular circulation. These gatherings will now be a monthly opportunity to connect, reflect, and encourage one another in the lifelong journey of understanding self as adoptees, and supporting that journey as loved ones. 

Historically, both spaces have provided a rare and important chance to engage in honest conversations about the lived experiences of adoptees. For adoptees, we’ve heard again and again how powerful it is to be in community without needing to explain everything—and to hear stories that deeply resonate. For loved ones, it’s often just as rare to find a supportive space to explore your own experiences and questions in walking alongside adoptees.

Creating space for these meaningful connections is central to our mission at Ties, and we’re incredibly excited to offer this new way of showing up for one another.

Each month, we’ll introduce a theme to help guide the conversation. Appropriately, we’re beginning in August—National Wellness Month, a time dedicated to prioritizing self-care, managing stress, and creating healthy routines.

It’s a fitting backdrop for our very first theme:

Wellness After Travel – Process Big Feelings Together

Our first theme also reflects the busy summer here at Ties, when the majority of our group trips depart and return on their transformative journeys. For Ties alumni of any year, we invite you to reflect on and share how the process of returning from such a powerful journey—like homeland travel—has unfolded for you and your family.

And if you’re someone considering a heritage journey in the future, we warmly welcome you too. These spaces are for listening, learning, and growing—wherever you are on the path.