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In conversation with … Angela Barra
Angela thank you for offering your time to have a discussion about your adoption experience. Thank you for inviting me to participate in this interview Thomas and to share some thoughts. Approaching your fiftieth year, giving you much time to both live and reflect on your adoption, what has been the most enduring impact of […]
September 13, 2016
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Living with Adoption: A Quest for Hope, Healing and Happiness
I acknowledge the mothers, fathers, adopted persons and their family members who are directly affected by adoption. I acknowledge your loss, separation, pain, and the associated uncertainty you may live with. We all carry and have to deal with our emotional wounds. I offer you strength and patience in doing so. My focus today is […]
September 9, 2016
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Taking Adoption to the Big Screen
Based in South Australia, Waters Productions started by Heather Waters, creates films which stir the soul and provoke the senses. Primarily they focus on adoption issues including the short film, The Lost Souls, set in the 1960s about the closed adoption era that was released in 2013. Current projects include a developing feature film, Primal […]
August 6, 2016
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Intercountry and Transracial Adoptee Experiences of Search and Reunion
Australia, like several other western countries, is home to many intercountry and transracial adopted people taken into local families over the past fifty years. Similar to other adopted people, these intercountry adoptees are likely, at some point in their adult lives, to seek their personal information, want to explore their origins and, where possible, find […]
August 5, 2016
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Men Living With Their Adoption
Michael it is three years since we first met at the adoption retreat organised by the Benevolent Society at the Brahma Kumaris Spiritual Centre in Wilton. I recall we were a group of seventeen adopted people who came together, over three days, to engage more deeply with our adoption experience and explore pathways to healing. […]
August 4, 2016
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Begin Again – A Workshop for Adult Adoptees
I spoke with Sherry Hearn about her counselling / coaching business and the one day workshop she is offering to adopted people at Relationships Australia on 17 September 2016, in Adelaide. Sherry, you are an adopted person, born in New Zealand, in the 1970s. You grew up in Christchurch and Hawaii before studying at […]
July 5, 2016
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A Conversation with Gary Coles about Forgotten Fathers
Gary, you are the father of a son who was relinquished for adoption shortly after his birth in 1967. During your life you have written extensively about the invisibility of fathers in adoption. You are also a campaigner for fathers’ rights. On Tuesday 28 June 2016 SBS ONE TV will go to air with an […]
June 19, 2016
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Reconnecting Heartlines to Bloodlines
Heartlines – The Year I Met My Other Mother is a new memoir exploring the adoption legacy of Robin and Susannah, mother and daughter separated at birth – at Robin’s choosing – who meet again half a century later – at Susannah’s choosing. Their reunion occurring fairly recently, and rapidly, once locating each other in […]
June 18, 2016
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The Effects of Adoption – Training for Health Professionals
Anyone who has lived with their adoption experience over the past 60 to 70 years, whether as a mother, father or as an adopted person, will know how difficult it’s been to find a health professional who understood the challenges of living with an adoption legacy or who could offer an appropriate support therapy. After […]
June 8, 2016
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Reflecting on Adoption – Interview with Sofie Gregory about short film Loss and Connection
I spoke to Sofie Gregory about her adoption experience and the short film, Loss and Connection she was involved with late last year. Readers should watch the nine minute film first as the interview relates to the content of the short film. Sofie you are an adopted person from the closed adoption era. Dealing with loss […]
May 5, 2016
