This comprehensive post-placement curriculum for birth parent care is a unique and relevant healing tool. Laid out in monthly lessons that span an entire year, Pivot addresses topics relevant to birth parents and uses play and art therapy techniques to help the participants engage with the topic. The Facilitator's Guide is for group leaders and the companion Pivot Workbook is for participants. This is an actual curriculum with supporting material included written by a birth parent for other birth parents.
Michelle Thorne believes words are powerful. Art heals her soul, and sports are her happy place. An ex-expat who loves to write, her first fiction novel Both Darkness and Light released in July 2020, which followed several non-fiction works on adoption. Michelle lives in Black Mountain, North Carolina.