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Join KAAN from June 21 – 23 for three days of keynotes, films, presentations, roundtables, performers, exhibits, support forums, and life-changing community. KAAN offers an Adoptee-Only track, as well as sessions for a general audience that are open to all. There are programs for adults aged 18+ and youth aged 8-17. Everyone is welcome, including adoptees, birth families, family members (adoptive parents, spouses/partners, siblings, and children of adoptees), service providers, and Korean Americans. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at tech@wearekaan.org.

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Saturday, June 22 • 3:45pm - 5:00pm
Stories We Tell Ourselves & Others

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For many adoptees, our journey requires processing and talking about those parts of our stories that are hard to acknowledge even to ourselves, let alone to others. Glenn Morey, adoptee and creator of the Side by Side documentary film project, and Melinda McCulloch, adoptee and clinical therapist, will explore the fraught terrain of our most closely held and rarely revealed feelings—fear, shame, anger, alienation, and more—through the lenses of clinical work with adoptees and the raw and unfiltered adoptee stories of Side by Side.
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Glenn Morey

Side by Side Project
Glenn Morey is co-director of the documentary film project, Side by Side, presenting the stories of 100 adult Korean adoptees—filmed in 7 countries, 16 cities, and 6 languages. “Side by Side: Out of a South Korean Orphanage and Into the World” won the Gold Jury Award for Best... Read More →
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Melinda McCulloch

Melinda McCulloch is a clinical social worker and Korean adoptee whose psychotherapy practice specializes in working with adoptees and their families, and others who are navigating issues of identity, attachment/intimacy, or grief and loss. Over the past 15 years, she has volunteered... Read More →

Saturday June 22, 2024 3:45pm - 5:00pm CDT
Rosemont 3: 3rd Floor
  Adoptee-Only Session

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