Name: Workplace Resilience: Adoptee Identity & Navigating Growth
Start: 2025-06-21T11:00:00-0400
End: 2025-06-21T12:15:00-0400

The KAAN 2025 Conference will take place at The Grand Hyatt in Atlanta, GA, on June 20-22. The theme this year is Growth and Change. As always, we offer an adoptee-only track alongside our general breakout sessions, which are open to all. We also offer programs for adults and youth (ages 8-17). All are welcome, including adoptees, birth families, family members (adoptive parents, spouses/partners, siblings and children of adoptees), service providers, and Korean Americans. We look forward to seeing you there!

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at tech@wearekaan.org.

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Saturday June 21, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT

Cascade (Lower lobby)

We spend a third of our life working. Our ability to hold a job and earn income directly impacts our ability to maintain wellbeing (i.e. access to healthcare, housing, etc). There is an adoptee community concern with job instability, burnout, and unsafe working environments whether it be mental, physical or emotional. We know childhood trauma impacts adult functioning including job stability and mental health.

This session would:
-explore how these traumas inform adult identities and workplace behaviors
-discuss the impact of these identities on mental health
-provide tools to identify unsafe working environments, establish healthier workplace boundaries and self-advocacy

Speakers

Jordan Bayer

Jordan Bayer (She/Her) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Oklahoma. Her professional roles have included serving as an embedded therapist in a Public-School setting, acting as the Foster Care Program Director for the state's largest private foster care agency, and fulfilling... Read More →

Stephanie Fieldman

Stephanie Fieldman is a transracial Korean adoptee currently living in Tulsa, Oklahoma. She is a conference management professional with experience working with both privately held and publicly traded media companies and industry brands across multiple vertical markets. Stephanie... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
Cascade (Lower lobby)

Adoptee-Only Session

KAAN 2025

Jordan Bayer

Stephanie Fieldman

Attendees (8)

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