NAAP 6.25.26 Migrating Toward Wholeness - Dr. Liz DeBetta

Migrating Toward Wholeness: Rewriting Adoption Narratives in the Constellation with Dr. Liz DeBetta.

Trauma-informed therapeutic writing to redefine and rewrite adoption narratives for clarity, communication, and healing in community.

About Dr. Liz

I  love helping people find and use their voices. I love pushing back against the status quo. I love dismantling interlocking systems of oppression. I love telling untellable stories and guiding others to do the same. I love empowering people to break silences. I love connecting through stories. I love helping people heal.

I earned a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies (Humanities & Culture) from Union Institute & University (certificates in Women’s and Gender Studies/Creative Writing), an MA in English from the City University of NY (College of Staten Island), and a BA in Theatre/Speech from Wagner College. As an interdisciplinary scholar-artist-activist I’m committed to changing systems and helping people navigate trauma through creative processes. I believe that stories are powerful change agents and when we can write them and share them we connect and heal.

I use storytelling, performance, and narrative techniques to invite others to create space for empathy and begin healing individual and collective trauma connected to race, gender, sexuality, disability, ethnicity, and other intersections of identity that are misunderstood or misrepresented in dominant culture. This stems directly from my lived experience as an adoptee, survivor of gender based violence, and advocate for change by speaking truth to power using my own story.

https://www.lizdebetta.com

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