Romanian Ties - Culture, Travel, Adoption & Identity

06/09/2024

Hello Romanian Ties,

To make it easier for you to stay connected with all things Ties, we’ll be deactivating this page on December 1st. We invite you to join us on our main page (Adoptive Family Travel - The Ties Program) to continue receiving updates, stories, and program news. Just give us a Like and Follow to stay in the loop!

Thank you for being a part of our community. We look forward to seeing you on our main page soon! 💙

08/08/2024

30/07/2024

Romania's first medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics!🇹🇩

DAVID POPOVICI HAS DONE IT 🇷🇴🤯 The Romanian star claims his nation’s first Olympics gold with the final stroke!

Matt Richards claims 2nd with a 0.02 gap in it!

📸 World Aquatics |

02/05/2024

Thank you to everyone who joined our webinar last night! We've had an incredible time with our webinar series this year and have learned so much together. We hope you've enjoyed it too!

In exciting news and as a great way to wrap up our winter/spring webinar series, join our Owner and Director, Dr. Tanya Kaanta, as she explores trauma, chronic illness, and healing in relation to adoption. 🌟 Don't miss out on this insightful session!

Register: https://bit.ly/maytanyawebinar

17/04/2024

🕖 Reminder: Join us tonight at 7 PM CST for our "Pre- to Post-Trip: Gathering Your Support Team" webinar!

But wait, we have more! 🎉 We're thrilled to announce our upcoming May webinar featuring the fantastic duo that is Kimiko Kawabori and Kari Grady Grossman!

📅 Save the date for this awesome FREE webinar.
Date: Wednesday, May 1st
Time: 7:00PM CST
Register here: https://bit.ly/AncestralWebinarSignUp

05/04/2024

We are dreaming of a day we get to return to Romania. If you are interested in traveling with us the next time we go (dates are TBD), please fill out our interest survey here: https://survey.zohopublic.com/zs/BZBqze

08/03/2024

Happy International Women's Day to all the incredible souls out there! Today and every day, we celebrate the strength, resilience, and diverse stories of EVERY woman. Here's to honoring every unique journey and embracing the power of inclusivity and equity for all!

Adoptive Family Travel - The Ties Program has always been a woman-owned and operated organization. We are proud to be guided, supported and led by visionary women who bring empathy, support, and inclusivity to heritage travel. Cheers to ALL the incredible women who have been part of our trips, supporting adoptees' journeys along the way! 💖🌍

23/02/2024

Embracing the spirit of Dragobete this weekend, a reminder to never stop celebrating love! ❤️✨

Dragobete is celebrated on February 24, and in traditional mythology, he is a half-human half-angel immortal entity that reminds people to always celebrate love. So instead of celebrating Valentine's Day with flowers and chocolate, offer something more personal - your appreciation and your time.

16/02/2024

🌍✨ Calling all Romanian adoptees! 🇷🇴✈️ Are you a Romanian adoptee with a curiosity about your heritage and a desire to explore the beautiful roots of your homeland? 🌳✨

We want to hear from you!

Please take a moment to fill out our Interest Survey.
Survey Link: https://bit.ly/NGRomaniaSurvey

05/02/2024

Sometimes representation comes from the most unexpected places! Let's celebrate the incredible achievement of Romanian-born audio engineer and mixer, Șerban Ghenea, who took home a Grammy last night for his work on Taylor Swift's album. He has now won 19 Grammy Awards and 3 Latin Grammy Awards in his career.

His winnings not only highlight his outstanding talent but also serves as a reminder that diverse voices are making waves in the music industry.

🏆 Congratulations to Şerban Ghenea who won a Grammy Award as sound engineer for Taylor Swift album! This is Șerban Ghenea's fifth Grammy Award, making him the first non-artist to win “Album of the Year” five times, according to Billboard. He previously won the same award for Swift’s albums “1989” and “Folklore”, Adele's “25”, and Bruno Mars' “24K Magic”.

💥 Throughout his career so far, Şerban Ghenea won 19 Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards. He has mixed tracks for artists such as Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Justin Timberlake, Usher, Bjork, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Faith Hill, Carrie Underwood, Jewel, Santana, Ozomatli, Shakira, and many more. As of January 2024, Ghenea has mixed over 225 No. 1 singles and albums.

🎶 This year, Șerban Ghenea was nominated for seven Grammys.

📷: Entertainment Tonight

31/01/2024

Hello Romanian Ties!

Check out our latest updates and let us know if you are interested: https://conta.cc/3SthR3N

Stay tuned for more information, and in the meantime, feel free to reach out with any questions! Email us: [email protected]

28/09/2023

For adoptees, our lives don’t begin at placement- our lives begin in utero/at birth. However too often I work with adoptees who were raised in spaces that only fully honor the parts that include adoptive family, seemingly forgetting whole chapters that influenced & impacted our worldviews and challenged our senses of safety.
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“She never had a family until us.”
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“He couldn’t miss birth family, he’s never met them.”
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“You’re being too sensitive, not everything is about adoption.”
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These are examples of phrases- that I have repeatedly heard over the years, that are forgetting the chapters before adoption. These are the phrases that ignore implicit memory, that are rigid rather than curious. These are the phrases that forget we must be looking at adopted children and their experiences through the lens of grief & loss.
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How might our perspective shift about big, challenging behavior , big complicated feelings, struggling to find identity,
High risk behaviors, search & reunion, and other big topics if we were to slow things down and get curious about grief and how it bubbles under the surface - a key factor in all of these.
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For many adoptees, this grief is some of the biggest to hit the system. Often occurring in the most vulnerable developmental stages, which also means it’s occurring in preverbal, pre- explicit memory making phases. How (understandably so) disorienting. We cannot underestimate the impact this has.
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Of course things feel hard when you have lost so much. Of course things feel isolating when there are no solid answers. Of course things feel disorienting when loved ones raise you and will not acknowledge what came before as if it’s a secret, or something to be ashamed about.
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When children are adopted the wholeness of them is adopted, the wholeness of them deserves love & the wholeness of them needs attunement.

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24/08/2023

Exciting things are happening at The Ties Program. For 30 years, we have strived to take international adoptees and their families on extraordinary birth country experiences. We have loved every minut