Adoption Knowledge Affiliates

January 2012

January 16 - "20 Years With AKA - How Does AKA Serve the Core Issues of the Triad?" presented by a panel of AKA members

February 2012

February 20 - "Nature vs Nurture" with Kathryn Paige Harden.

March 2012

March 19 - Viewing and discussion of the movie First Person Plural.

April 2012

April 16 - "How to Talk about the Hard Truths of Adoption" presented by Robyn Gobbel, LCSW

May 2012

May 21 - "The Hero’s Journey from the Primal Wound to Wholeness: The Development of the Self in Adoptees" presented by Michelle Bohls, LMFT.

June 2012

June 18 - "A Birth Father’s Story" presented by the birth father (a member).

July 2012

July 16 - "Teenage Adoption" presented by Sally Fussell, LCSW.

August 2012

August 20 - "The Myth of the Five Stages of Grief and the New Science of Loss" by Suzi McCoy, MS, LPC.

September 2012

September 17 - "Openness in Adoption" presented by Patricia Cody, PhD, MSW.

October 2012

October 15 - Open Adoption Panel Discussion.

November 2012

November 2 & 3 - AKA Annual Conference
No November Educational Meeting.