Category: Grief and Loss for adoptive parents

Cut Chilli Melbourne Community Event

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ICAV’s Cut Chilli Melbourne event brought adoptees together through theatre, food and a panel exploring identity, family, belonging and lived experience.

From Silence to Self: An Adoptee’s Song

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Cao shares a song written across decades, exploring search, grief, identity, and healing after loss, silence, and self-acceptance.

Cut Chilli Play: Adoption Community Events and Feedback

On By lynellelongIn Adoptee vulnerability, Adoption Community Event, Adoptive parents, Australia, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Difficult discussions in adoption, Exploring adoptive parent journey, Grief and Loss, Grief and Loss for adoptive parents, Illegal Adoption, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Sri LankaLeave a comment

Lynelle shares about the recent Cut Chilli events which ICAV hosted for the adoption community.