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Brats: Our Journey Home with Donna Musil (Free Teleconference for TCKs!)

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Keep your eyes peeled for upcoming information on Donna Musil and her documentary film ‘Brats: Our Journey Home’. But here’s a clip from Youtube you can watch in the mean time:

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Brats: Our Journey Home

Join us for our teleconference with Donna Musil – Army Brat/ATCK, writer, director and producer of Brats: Our Journey Home

Click here for more details about the teleconference

Have you lived outside your Passport culture and then struggled trying to fit in with people that you have nothing in common with when you returned “home”?

In this 60-mins interview, you will learn about:

1. How to be comfortable with who you are – that completely opposing ideas are valid and exist all at the same time.

2. How to fully employ your strengths and have compassion for your weaknesses.

3. How to look at “belonging” in a whole new light.

About Donna Musil

BRATS is the first cinematic glimpse into a global subculture whose journey to adulthood is a high-octane mixture of incredible excitement and enormous pain.

It’s the seven-year work of passion of independent filmmaker Donna Musil. It’s the first film Donna has directed and produced. Before embarking on BRATS, Donna wrote a variety of scripts, including Ananse, a children’s animated film based on African folktales, in development with Visionex/Ghana and Melendez Films/London. She co-directed a staged reading of her original feature, To Kingdom Come, with Producer Judith Pearlman, in NY Women in Film & TV’s Screenplay Reading Series, representing “some of the best developing women screenwriters.”

Prior to her writing career, Donna worked as an attorney with the AFL-CIO and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, helping organize unions throughout the South. She has a J.D. and B.A./Journalism (magna cum laude) from the University of Georgia and is a member of the State Bar of Georgia.

Donna was raised an Army brat and has lived and worked in Germany, Korea, Ireland, Copenhagen, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Paris. As a child, she moved 12 times in 16 years. Her father was a JAG officer and military judge. When she was 16, her father died, and two weeks later, her family moved to Columbus, Georgia, where she finished high school.

For the next 20 years, Donna moved 19 times, graduated college, and worked in a variety of jobs, but always felt “different” from her fellow Americans. In 1997, she learned that she was not alone. While surfing the Internet, Donna discovered a Web site for her Taegu, Korea high school. A few weeks later, she attended an impromptu reunion in Washington, DC. It was revelatory. For the first time, Donna felt like she “belonged” somewhere, and thus began her journey “home.”

Sign up to join TCK Academy’s Paulette M. Bethel’s interview with Donna Musil.

Click here for more details about the teleconference


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June 28, 2008 | Filed Under News, Videos 

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3 Responses to “Brats: Our Journey Home with Donna Musil (Free Teleconference for TCKs!)”

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    Brice
    Brice Says:
    June 28th, 2008 at 3:22 am

    Donna is awesome, I’m looking forward to that teleconference!

    If you missed the previous 2 conferences, here’s what some people said about them:

    ” I found that I was quietly crying much of the time”
    Brice, Thank you so much for sponsoring this class. I found that I was quietly crying much of the time, and I heard tears in other voices too. I didn’t notice the tears sliding down my face until one hit the desk. Wonderful to be with so many people who get it. Thank you to all who made this rich experience possible. You are doing a great service to so many of us around the world.
    -Annette R. Floystrup. Oakland, California
    on Ruth Van Reken’s 7 Things Every TCK Should Know Teleclass
    http://tckacademy.com/class/

    “Worth waking up for at 5am”
    If you are a teacher, parent, and/or global nomad/TCK I highly encourage you attend.
    If you a family member or in the support community of TCKs I think you’ll find this very worth while for providing support to TCKs.”
    - Lori, Japan
    on Robin Pascoe: Raising Global Nomads
    http://tckacademy.com/class/002/

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    paulettebethel Says:
    July 2nd, 2008 at 1:21 pm

    Thanks for posting Ayako!!

    I am really excited about this teleconference interview. I had some time to meet with Donna in person this week. What a blast!! Especially since she introduced me to a great restaurant that served the most wonderful Creole/Cajun cuisine!!!

    She is clearly passionate and knowledgeable about the needs of global nomads, TCKs and brats from all sectors.

    You don’t have to be a military brat to find your story in Brats: Our Journey Home. Donna’s work offers a universal message of belonging, coming to understanding and acceptance of the gifts and challenges of living a global nomad lifestyle,

    I hope that TCKID members will join Brice and me on what is sure to be an engaging conversation with Donna.

    Hope to e-see you there!!!

    Paulette

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  3. 3
    Brice
    Brice Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 1:30 am

    12 new people just joined this morning, and there is 11 hours left before the teleconference.

    See you all there soon!

    http://tckacademy.com/class/003

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