Welcome to our Calendar of Events!

This calendar includes opportunities for learning and connection from the Wisconsin Family Connections Center, the Coalition for Children, Youth & Families, and several other organizations across Wisconsin. (NOTE: Opportunities from the Wisconsin Family Connections Center are noted with a blue ribbon on the calendar below.)

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Reclaiming the Narrative: A 7-Step Approach to Trauma Healing and Adoptee Wholeness

January 29 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Dr. Liz DeBetta, founder and creator of Migrating Toward Wholeness© is an adoptee and independent scholar-artist-activist committed to changing systems and helping people navigate trauma through creative processes. She believes that stories are powerful change agents and when we write them and share them we connect and heal.

Being able to question, reject, and rewrite the dominant narratives that make adoptees the object rather than the subject of their stories is essential to finding healing and wholeness. Permission to explore origin (and other adoption) stories and rewrite them as teens and adults helps adoptees to become more integrated by allowing them to connect to the parts of themselves that have been denied by the stories that were given to them as children, and the stories that the media would like the public to believe about adoption. Using Howard Bath’s 3-pillars of Trauma-informed Care (2008) and the 7-step trauma-healing framework embedded in the Migrating Toward Wholeness© method of expressive writing to heal, session attendees will learn how the process of re-narrativizing for adoptees can be used to find clarity, understand the effects of trauma, promote personal growth that helps to shift internal narratives, and create healthy dialogue among families.

Details

Date:
January 29
Time:
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Event Category:
Website:
https://activisminadoption.org/upcoming-zoom-sessions.html

Venue

Zoom