Reconnect with your roots through heritage travel
Guiding adoptees and their loved ones through transformative journeys since 1994.
Trace your roots. Embrace your history.
How we do things
The Ties Program empowers adoptees and their loved ones through transformative heritage experiences that deepen cultural connections, nurture a sense of belonging, and honor individual adoptee narratives.
Our specialized travel experiences are designed to help adoptees trace their roots and embrace the history.
Heritage travel for
adoptees & loved ones
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Connect with Other Adoptees
Shared experiences and forming meaningful connections with other adoptees creates a unique sense of belonging and mutual understanding. These relationships during travel not only foster a sense of safety, and personal growth but also can inspire, support, and provide meaningful impact during a time of self discovery and exploring your birth country–reminding us that we're stronger together.
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Connect With Others Who Have Similar Lived Experiences
We offer support for loved ones accompanying the adoptee, ensuring the adoptee can focus fully on their own experience without the added emotional responsibility of caring for others. By supporting loved ones, we ultimately help create a more meaningful and focused journey for the adoptee.
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Understanding & Cultural Context
Exploring the community and region where you were born provides a unique opportunity to connect with your roots, to uncover the cultural and historical threads woven into your adoption story. It’s about gaining insight and honoring the journey that brought you to where you are today.
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Professionally Trained Staff and Emotional Support
Curated trips are designed with empathy and emotional support in mind, ensuring that you feel guided and respected throughout the process, especially if you're navigating complex feelings of loss, belonging, or identity.
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Unique Benefits of Traveling with The Ties Program
While traditional tourism travel can provide sightseeing experiences, a bespoke heritage trip offers an entirely different level of depth and intimacy. The personal nature of these journeys—designed with cultural sensitivity and respect—ensures that adoptees can explore their birth country in a way that honors their unique story.
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It’s A Good Time
Heritage travel is not only meaningful but also incredibly fun! From exploring markets, sampling local cuisine, sightseeing and experiencing cultural traditions, these trips are filled with joy and adventure. Traveling with others adds an extra layer of comfort and connection, making each moment more memorable.
What they’re saying
Importance of Heritage Travel
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Every adoptee's story is unique, but many feel a deep longing to connect with their roots. Visiting your birth country offers a chance to explore the land, culture, and traditions that shaped your heritage, fostering a profound sense of belonging beyond adoption narratives.
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Whether it's the food, the language, the art, or the people, being in your birth country offers an authentic experience of the cultural context from which you came which can be helpful and grounding in your sense of identity.
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For many adoptees, the search for their birth origins can be a deeply emotional journey. Visiting your birth country provides an opportunity to face questions and uncertainties that have lingered for years. It’s an act of reclaiming your narrative and taking ownership over your story in a way that goes beyond what you were told.
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For some, these journeys help to answer questions about their birth family, culture, or adoption story—offering a sense of understanding.
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Curated, bespoke trips are designed with empathy and emotional support in mind, ensuring that you feel guided and respected throughout the process, especially if you're navigating complex feelings of loss, belonging, and/or identity.
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While not every adoptee has the same opportunities, a heritage trip opens up the door to connecting with biological relatives or a community. This meaningful journey is often emotional, transformative, and life-changing.
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Exploring the community or region where you were born allows you to better understand the cultural forces at play in your adoption story—whether it was economic, political, or personal circumstances that led to your adoption.
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Visiting your birth country isn’t just about revisiting your adoption story, though we do curate efforts to connect adoptees with important pieces of their past. It’s also about shaping your narrative, embracing the unknown, and finding empowerment through discovery and support.
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The journey fosters self-discovery, growth, and pride, helping you reclaim your identity and gain a deeper understanding of your heritage and life story.
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While the emotional and psychological benefits are profound, a heritage trip connects adoptees to something bigger than themselves: their ancestral heritage. This is an experience that lasts long after the trip ends.
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Travel with others who share similar experiences, whether as adoptees or their loved ones. Traveling with likeminded people in a heritage journey fosters understanding, connection, and often leads to lifelong friendships that extend far beyond the trip itself.
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A curated heritage trip allows you to create lifelong memories—whether through reconnecting with distant family, absorbing cultural traditions, or simply experiencing the beauty of the country that was once your home.
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For adoptees who are raising their own families, this journey offers the chance to pass on knowledge of their heritage, creating a legacy that spans generations.
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Heritage travel blends meaningful exploration with joyful experiences. From sharing meals to exploring vibrant traditions, these uplifting moments balance the emotional journey, creating rich and lasting memories.
Experience your heritage journey.
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