The Idea Camp

NIcole Wick

Nicole was adopted when she was three months old. Her first home was an orphanage in Vietnam, one of many orphanages that housed thousands of children born out of the Vietnam war.

Nicole was one only a few oprhans to be rescued in Operation Babylift, an international effort to airlift children out of the country before it fell to the communist regime.

She was adopted by a wonderful family in Detroit, Michigan where she now lives with her husband and three children.

Nicole is a blogger, writer, and family counselor. You can follow her adventures on her blog.

Twitter:  @NicoleWick

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Nicole will be leading a workshop/idea session on:

Honor Your Father and Mother: Living Out the Other Side of Adoption

Adoption isn’t the beginning of the story. Or the end. Adoption is about much more than putting a family together, adoption is also an undoing — a mother being separated from her child. In this workshop Nicole Wick, an adult adoptee, will use her personal adoption story as well as insights from the story of Hannah and Samuel ( 1 Samuel 1:21-28 and 2:18,19) to facilitate a discussion about “the other side of adoption”.

The workshop will be a space for adoptive parents to discuss ways to honor birth moms, dads, and countries of origin. Topics of discussion will include introducing and maintaining cultural traditions, having healthy, age appropriate conversations with children about their birth parents, and ways to move through acculturation while still valuing a child’s native language and culture.

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