Together Estranged - TS X Dr. Becca Bland
Sun, Dec 15
|Virtual Event
A powerhouse in the estrangement advocacy space - Join Becca Bland (founder of StandAlone) on what it takes to build a community in the face of systemic disadvantages. This talk has limited spaces available.
Time & Location
Dec 15, 2024, 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM GMT
Virtual Event
About the event
Join us to talk all things estrangement with Dr Becca Bland. Limited spaces available.
Angel and Becca will discuss some of the systemic disadvantages faced by estranged folks and how community building can be facilitated by better supports and policy in action.
Becca Says
There are millions of us out there who have a cut off or estranged experience of family, but so few people talk about it for fear of judgement or exclusion. As a young journalist, I wrote about this shame that I felt with my situation in The Guardian. As a result of this piece, in 2012, I went on to found the only non-for-profit that works on family estrangement, called Stand Alone.
During my time at Stand Alone, I created support interventions for individuals struggling with family estrangement and evaluated them formally. The psychological relief that people felt in finding shared experience in these support groups…