Idea

Why I founded Inschluss

It made me sad and angry that the feelings of fostered and adopted people get talked down (even from ourselves!). As Nancy Verrier wrote: Adoption "ist the only trauma where the victims are expected by whole of society to be grateful."*

The subject ist mostly talked and written about by adoptive parents - and seen from their perspective. With Inschluss I want to give a voice to us fostered and adopted people

Before the welcoming a child through adoption there is - rejection. Inschluss helps to understand this wound und to give the message "You belong!" und "You are wanted by God!"

* Nancy Newton Verrier: The Primal Wound. Understanding the Adopted Child, Baltimore 1993, 80.

My contribution

I want to bundle and systematize the statements about our feelings - and then to impart it in an attractive manner.

In books and videos fostered and adopted people and their relatives get a chance to speak. From all over the world. Even VIPs like Marilyn Monroe or John Lennon or figures from literature and movies - from Oedipus to Harry Potter.

I read. I listen. And I give insights and impulses in speeches, workshops and coachings.

 

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My contribution

I want to bundle and systematize the statements about our feelings - and then to impart it in an attractive manner.

In books and videos fostered and adopted people and their relatives get a chance to speak. From all over the world. Even VIPs like Marilyn Monroe or John Lennon or figures from literature and movies - from Oedipus to Harry Potter.

I read. I listen. And I give insights and impulses in speeches, workshops and coachings.

Wie Inschluss sein will

ATTITUDE:

  • open: We don't put lipstick on the pig.
  • respectful: We honor all the people involved.
  • christian: God helps us on our way.

CONTENT:

  • personal: We present people and their stories.
  • entertaining: We quote from literature, music and movies.
  • founded: We use findings from psychology.
  • international: We are looking for fates all over the world

FORM:

  • light: We use humor and images to take away the heaviness.
  • systematic: We bring order to the chaos of emotions.
  • multimedial: We convey closeness with images, sound and video.