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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Intervention101.com</div>Cult Interventionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04261541249857681021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503191191615363919.post-62130089381148727422022-11-19T20:15:00.001-05:002023-04-22T14:50:15.219-04:00Building Bridges; Leaving and Recovering From Cultic Groups and Relationships<span style="font-family: verdana;">Joseph Kelly and Patrick Ryan</span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">International Cultic Studies Association</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />Topics discussed include:<br /><br />Assessing a family’s unique situation; understanding why people join and leave groups; considering the nature of psychological manipulation and abuse; being accurate, objective, and up-to-date; looking at ethical issues; learning how to assess your situation; formulating a helping strategy; learning how to communicate more efficiently with your loved one; learning new ways of coping.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="YOUTUBE-iframe-video" data-thumbnail-src="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/b_wzgSdX_hQ/0.jpg" frameborder="0" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b_wzgSdX_hQ?feature=player_embedded" width="320"></iframe></div><div><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intervention101.com</div>Cult Interventionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04261541249857681021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503191191615363919.post-62634721241111314192022-03-30T17:03:00.002-04:002022-03-30T17:03:24.428-04:00ICSA Annual Conference: Pathways to Healing: The Importance of Psycho-education in the Process of Recovery and Healing After Leaving a Cult<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5413990503704055640" itemprop="articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; 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line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daniel O'Brien</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sunday, June 26, 2022</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">11:00 AM-11:50 AM</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Individuals who leave cults frequently exhibit symptoms of mental illness, in particular: depression, anxiety and schizotypal disorders. While these symptoms can affect all former cult members, they are particularly problematic among young people who have left cults, and especially those born into one. Although there are a number of interventions that can help these people live full, productive lives with robust mental health, many do not take advantage of them for a variety of reasons, largely related to their cult indoctrination. Often cults stigmatize counseling and psychotherapy, causing many former cult members to fear seeking professional mental health treatment. For those that do seek help, it can be difficult to find appropriate counseling because not all therapists understand the significance of the cult experience. To address these problems, an extensive survey was conducted of the relevant, current research available on the subject. Although there is a vast amount of research available concerning mental illness and mental health, there is a relatively scant amount addressing the unique needs of former cult members. Nevertheless, what is available is quite encouraging in regard to positive outcomes for emotional and psychological healing. A key point among the findings is the recognition that “core dysfunctional beliefs and consequent negative thoughts” are central in the development of mental illness (Kinderman, 2005). When false and damaging beliefs are replaced with accurate, healthy beliefs and coping strategies, individuals begin to recover and thrive. Psycho-education, particularly in connection with traditional treatments for mental illness, can help empower individuals suffering with mental health issues by providing them with tools for coping and alleviating those symptoms. Significant challenges remain and need to be addressed in order to make this information more widely disseminated and available to those that need it most: former group members, their families, helping professionals, and researchers.</span></p><br /><h3 dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 4pt; margin-top: 14pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #666666; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Daniel O'Brien</span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Educator</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A former member of Jehovah’s Witnesses, O’Brien joined the religion in his early twenties and remained in it for two and a half decades. He served as a congregation elder for the last 20 years he was a Witness up until the time he discontinued his participation due to suffering a crisis of conscience concerning the conflict between his personal beliefs and the egregious hypocrisy of the leadership of the Jehovah’s Witness religion and their damaging, destructive policies and practices. As a writer and speaker, O’Brien focuses on how to heal emotionally and psychologically after leaving a cult, how to live a meaningful, authentic life and developing and implementing strategies to reach family members still in high-control, authoritarian groups. An experienced educator with more than two decades of experience in the classroom, Daniel has a Master's of Education degree which he earned at Concordia University, Irvine. 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<h3>"Uniting The Continents: Support For The Pacific Rim'' -- An Online Event for Families, Former Members and Friends Affected by Cultic Groups and Relationships.<br /></h3>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0661f7;">About</span></strong></p>
<p>This event will offer an opportunity for organizations to share their collective knowledge and experience -- across many continents. The conference includes twelve plus, fifty-minute sessions and a three-hour Former Member Workshop.</p>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0661f7;">Where</span> </strong>Online Event - Zoom</p>
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<p><strong>Pacific Rim/Europe: </strong>September 12/13, 2020, Saturday/Sunday</p>
<ul><li>Sydney (9 am - 3 pm)</li><li>Beijing (7 am - 1 pm)<br /></li><li>Hong Kong (7 am - 1 pm)</li><li>New Zealand (11 am - 5 pm)</li><li>Singapore (7 am - 1 pm)</li><li>Tokyo (8 am - 2 pm)</li><li>UK ( 1 am - 6 am)</li></ul>
<p><strong>North America</strong>: September 11/12, 2020, Friday/Saturday</p>
<ul><li>US-East Coast (7 pm - 1 am)</li><li>Central Time (6 pm - midnight)</li><li>Mountain Time (5 pm - 11 pm)</li><li>West Coast (4 pm - 10 pm)</li><li>Hawaii (1 pm - 7 pm)</li></ul>
<p><strong><span style="color: #0661f7;"><br />Speakers/Talks</span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Jill Aebi-Mytton, BSc, MSc, CPsychol, AFBPsS DPsych</strong></p>
<p><em>That's not me”: An Exploration of Multi-Generation Adult leavers</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>In the language in the cultic studies arena we hear the categories ‘First Generation Adult’ (SGA) and ‘Second Generation Adult’ (SGA). These categories do not always fit our experiences. Where do I belong if actually I am third or fourth generation. This can be a confusing situation and can leave a former member feeling left out, as I experienced when I first began to explore this area. </p>
<p>This talk will focus on the development of the concept of ‘Multi Generation Adults’ (MGA) and why it is important to consider this group as different from yet similar to SGAs. The talk will explore this idea and will be illustrated by case studies.</p>
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<p><strong>Rachel Bernstein, MSed, LMFT</strong><br /></p>
<p><em>From Surviving to Thriving After Leaving - Steps to Take on the Road to Recovery</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>People who have left highly toxic environments deal with a lot of confusion, anger, sadness, fear, loss, isolation, and at times post trauma reactions. These factors make it difficult to know where to start and what to address first when you need to rebuild your life while also needing to get support for your emotions. Taking all that on while you need to tend to the practical issues of re-entering the world and working to regain the confidence you need to make decisions and move forward can cause people to give up because it is all too much. </p>
<p>It becomes easier when it is broken down into steps that you can take (and steps that you can guide loved ones to take who are in these situations too). We will go over a step-by-step plan for your healing and managing the practical issues of everyday life, but it's important to not stop there. Once you feel your feet more firmly planted, it's important to try to move towards feeling good, feeling joy, having a real sense of accomplishment and a strengthened self-concept that comes from knowing you have survived something that could have destroyed you but you were just too determined not to let it!</p>
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<p><strong><strong>Rachel Bernstein, MSed, LMFT</strong></strong></p>
<p><em>Unique Ways to Help your Loved One in a Cult or Manipulative Relationship</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>Unique situations sometimes require unique approaches. When faced with a loved one in a cult or a controlling relationship, there are many ways people intervene that feel instinctively right but cause the person to move farther away from you, more deeply connected to those who are harming them, and less trusting of you and others who are trying to help. It often requires a different approach to make the impact you want to make here. </p>
<p>After many years of working with families and friends of those in cults and highly controlling relationships, I have learned what techniques work better than others, and I want to share them with you. </p>
<p>Sometimes when people consult with me, they feel they have already "blown it", so to speak, by saying or doing the wrong thing and they are either losing touch or have lost touched with their loved one as a result and become the enemy. I will also cover how to mend those fractures and rebuild trust so there is greater communication with them and then a higher chance of being able to truly intervene.</p>
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<p><strong>Linda Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, Reg. MBACP (Accred.), Rod Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, MBPsS</strong><br /></p>
<p><em>The Spectrum of Coercive Control in Cults, Extremist Groups and Abusive Relationships</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>This talk will examine contemporary understandings of coercive control in relationships and groups and will explain how the psychology of coercion and abuse operates across the contexts of cults, extremist groups, domestic violence, trafficking and gangs. It will also outline how changes to the law across a range of jurisdictions reflects increased understanding of how coercion and undue influence works psychologically across these contexts. An analysis will be provided of how a heightened dialogue between practitioners and researchers across the fields of intimate partner violence, trafficking, cults and extremist groups is leading to enhanced appreciation of commonalities in the process of psychological indoctrination and practice responses. Positive implications for prevention, exit, recovery and rehabilitation will also be discussed, including how to properly safeguard those who are vulnerable, and recommendations for policy and practice will additionally be outlined.</p>
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<p><strong>Lorna Goldberg, LCSW, PsyA</strong><br /></p>
<p><em>Cult Recovery: Gaining Trust After Cult Exploitation</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>After cult involvement, former members may wonder if they can trust others not to betray or shame them. They may wonder if they can trust themselves. For first generation former cult members, cult trauma was an “assault of the unimaginable” (Ringstrom) upon their character, interests, and goals. Many have experienced shaming and deception. For recruits, these assaults may have led to their acceptance of an altered view of their ability to perceive truth. Former members who were born and raised in cults may have accepted their cult’s characterization of them as “bad” or “evil.” Helping ex-cult members gain trust in others includes reminding them of their right to be treated with dignity, which is the opposite of cult shaming. By contrasting dignity with shame, former cult members can both objectify their shaming experience and create a language for understanding that they did not merit the treatment they received. This understanding can serve as a bridge to and a model for future relationships.</p>
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<p><strong>Ashlen Hilliard</strong><br /></p>
<p><em>Can cults be leaderless? How a high-control environment can occur in the absence of a de facto leader</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>It is routine for abusive churches to justify their cult-like treatment of members based on adherence to historic Christian beliefs, or to claimed affinity with well-known, trusted denominations and religious organizations. </p>
<p>This talk will focus on how unhealthy Christian churches can become de facto cults, the role controlling theology can play in creating a high-pressure environment in which people adopt group prejudices, and conclude with questions you can raise about a group to help evaluate spiritual abuse, the potential for it, or if high-control scenarios already exist. </p>
<p>The context for this discussion will pull from reflections of being a born and raised former member of a fundamentalist Christian sect.</p>
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<p><strong>Dr Gillie Jenkinson, </strong><strong>PhD</strong><strong></strong><br /><em>Cult Recovery: What helps former members recover?</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Many former cult members struggle to recover, and some take years before they are able to move on from their experiences. Gillie Jenkinson has spent over 20 years working with former members and studying what helps them recover. In this session she will share some key insights for former members and their therapists, and practical issues for facing the recovery process. This is informed by her practice and by her doctoral research in which she interviewed 29 former members in depth and mapped out the four Phases of Recovery and Growth.</p>
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<p><strong>Nitai Joseph, MSc</strong><br /></p>
<p><em>The Restoration of Individual Ideological Power: Making Sense of the Cultic Abuse Experience</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>Central to the long-term abuse experienced in cultic settings is the co-opting of a person’s ability to make sense of their own experience – what has been called their ideological power. These distorted systems of meaning redefine and conceal harm, first from the one experiencing it and, secondarily, from others. In this presentation, Nitai Joseph will use the non-stigmatizing Power Threat Meaning Framework to analyze cultic involvement; focusing on the role of ideological power. Former members and those concerned for them can benefit from understanding how leaders and groups hijack individual reasoning, how that co-opted sense-making allows harm to perpetuate, and the role reclaiming meaning-making plays when recovering or supporting someone’s recovery from cultic experiences. </p>
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<p><strong>Joseph Kelly</strong><br /></p>
<p><em>Building Bridges: Improving Communication Across Worldviews, How to Stay Connected with A Cult Involved Loved One</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>This talk will explain how the information gathered by cultic research organizations can be useful to parents. I will also explain why parents also need other information, particularly information relating to their child’s personal history, psychological issues, family relationships, and specific ways of relating to group members and the leader. Information that is both broad and deep can enable parents to understand how their group-involved child sees the world. This understanding permits parents to formulate an ethical and informed strategy for improving their relationship with their child possibly helping him/her reevaluate a group involvement.</p>
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<p><strong>Yuval Laor, PhD</strong><br /></p>
<p><em>The Neurobiology of 'Awe' in Cult Recruitment</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>Awe is an unusual emotion. When a strong awe experience is combined with the right expectations, assumptions and context, the consequences can be a sudden religious conversion. This is why understanding this emotion is critical to understanding the process of cult recruitment.</p>
<p>This lecture will focus on insights about awe that can be drawn from examining temporal lobe epilepsy, a neurological condition that causes frequent awe experiences. Looking at the functions of the brain’s temporal lobes may explain why awe feels the way it does, as well as the connection between awe and perceptual vastness, the auditory and vestibular senses, and the feelings of relevance and importance. We will then see how this can shed light on the triggers of awe which are anything that is judged as being sufficiently anomalous — these include: celebrities, trauma, hypomanic symptoms caused by love bombing, hallucinations, vast things, and perceived “miracles.”</p>
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<p><strong>Patrick Ryan</strong><br /></p>
<p><em>Why People Join, Stay and Leave Groups, A Cult Model</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>Parents are likely to benefit from information about the beliefs, practices, and history of the group their loved one has joined. Research suggests that, in the West, hundreds of thousands of individuals join and leave cultic groups each year. Research studies also suggest that at least a sizable minority of those who join cultic groups are adversely affected. The families of these group members, tend to become concerned about their loved one‘s group involvement. This session will help family members concerned about a loved one‘s cult involvement or its aftereffects, learn how to assess their situations more effectively. Among the topics to be discussed are: Why people join and leave high-control, abusive groups.</p>
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<p><strong>Joseph Szimhart</strong><br /></p>
<p><em>CULTS and DEATH: A new look at Ernest Becker’s 1973 book, The Denial of Death</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>The authors of The Worm at the Core (2015) proved through decades of experiments Becker’s breakthrough insights into the essential impact that human awareness of death has on human cultures. Becker won a Pulitzer Prize for Denial of Death in 1974. Using the keen psychoanalytic corrections that Otto Rank provided to advance Freudian theory coupled with the existential philosophy of Kierkegaard, Becker argued that to sustain self-esteem, we need heroes and the symbolic world provided by religion, science, and the arts to stay sane and flourish. Using Becker’s analysis, I will discuss how our reality as humans requires that we not only survive as natural creatures, but also are driven to create symbolic worlds with “immortality projects.” As I wrote in my memoir (Santa Fe, Bill Tate, and me), “cult activity has driven human social evolution,” for better and for worse.</p>
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<p><strong>Doni Whitsett, PhD, LCSW</strong><br /></p>
<p><em>Neurobiology of sexual abuse: stress, trauma, and resilience</em></p>
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p>
<p>This presentation will provide neurobiological understanding of sexual abuse, from traumatic sexualization to suggestions for healing. Included is a discussion of abuse as “coerced consent,” a common sexual experience within the context of controlling and intimidating relationships and “cults.”</p>
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<p><strong>Fee for two-day even</strong>t: $195/US</p>
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<p><strong>Sponsoring and Supporting Organizations</strong></p>
<ul><li><a href="http://www.cifs.org.au/" rel="nofollow"><strong>CIFS Australia</strong></a> (Cult Information and Family Support) </li><li><a href="http://cultmediation.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>Cult Mediation</strong></a>/<a href="https://www.intervention101.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>Intervention101</strong></a></li><li><a href="https://www.icsahome.com/" rel="nofollow"><strong>ICSA</strong></a> (International Cultic Studies Association)</li><li><a href="http://www.rachelbernsteintherapy.com/indoctrination-podcast/" rel="nofollow"><strong>IndoctriNation</strong></a> (Rachel Bernstein, LMFT)</li><li><a href="https://beta.salford.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/psychology-coercive-control" rel="nofollow"><strong>MSc Psychology of Coercive Control program at the University of Salford</strong></a> (Supporting Organization)</li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rod-dubrow-marshall-phd-7a7b6131/" rel="nofollow"><strong>RETIRN</strong></a> (Re-Entry Therapy Information and Referral Network - UK)</li><li>Whitsett, Doni P. PhD (Clinical Professor of Social Work, University of Southern California)</li></ul>
<p>This event will offer an opportunity for organizations to share their collective knowledge and experience -- across many continents.<br />The conference will have fourteen plus, fifty-minute sessions and one three-hour former member workshop.<br /></p>
<p>More Information: <strong><a href="https://www.cultnews101.com/p/uniting-continents-support-for-pacific.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cultnews101.com/p/uniting-continents-support-for-pacific.html</a></strong></p>
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<table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Saturday, 9/12, Sydney</strong></p></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p>9:00 am - 9:05 am</p></td><td><p><strong>Conference Opening Session</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9:10 am - 9:50 am</p></td><td><p><strong>Why People Join, Stay and Leave Groups, A Cult Model</strong></p>
<p>Patrick Ryan</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10:00 am - 10:50 am</p></td><td><p><strong>Building Bridges: Improving Communication Across Worldviews, How to Stay Connected with A Cult Involved Loved One </strong></p>
<p>Joseph Kelly</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11:00 am - 11:50 am</p></td><td><p><strong>Cults and Death: A new look at Ernest Becker's Denial of Death</strong></p>
<p>Joseph Szimhart</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12:00 pm - 12:50 pm</p></td><td><p><strong>Unique Ways to Help your Loved One in a Cult or Manipulative Relationship</strong></p>
<p>Rachel Bernstein LMFT, MSEd</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1:00 pm - 1:50 pm</p></td><td><p><strong>The Neurobiology of 'Awe' in Cult Recruitment</strong></p>
<p>Yuval Laor, PhD</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2:00 pm - 2:55 pm</p></td><td><p><strong>The Spectrum of Coercive Control in Cults, Extremist Groups and Abusive Relationships</strong></p>
<p>Linda Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, MBACP (Accred.), Rod Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, MBPsS</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2:55 pm - 3:00 pm</p></td><td><p><strong>Day One Closing</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sunday, 9/13, Sydney</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Track One</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9:00 am - 9:05 am</p></td><td><p><strong>Conference Opening Day-Two</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9:05 am - 9:50 am</p></td><td><p><strong>Cult Recovery: Gaining Trust After Cult</strong> <strong>Exploitation</strong></p>
<p>Lorna Goldberg, L.C.S.W., Psy.A.</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>10:00 am - 10:50 am</p></td><td><p><strong>Cult Recovery: What helps former members recover?</strong></p>
<p>Gillie Jenkinson, PhD</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>11:00 am - 11:50 am</p></td><td><p><strong>Can cults be leaderless? How a high-control environment can occur in the absence of a de facto leader.</strong> </p>
<p>Ashlen Hilliard</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>12:00 pm - 12:50 pm</p></td><td><p><strong>Recovering from Sexual Abuse in Cults, what we can learn from Neurobiology</strong></p>
<p>Doni Whitsett, PhD, LCSW</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1:00 pm - 1:50 pm</p></td><td><p><strong>From Surviving to Thriving After Leaving - Steps to Take on the Road to Recovery </strong></p>
<p>Rachel Bernstein LMFT, MSEd</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2:00 pm - 2:55 pm</p></td><td><p><strong>Resources</strong></p>
<p>Presentation by each organization on Programs and Resources</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>2:55 pm - 3:00 pm</p></td><td><p><strong>Day Two Closing</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td></td><td><br /></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sunday, 9/13, Sydney</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Track Two</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>9:05 am - 9:50 am</p></td><td><p><strong>The Restoration of Individual Ideological Power: Making Sense of the Cultic Abuse Experience</strong></p>
<p>Nitai Joseph, MSc</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Sunday</strong></p>
<p>10:00 am - 12:50 pm</p></td><td><p><strong>Former Member Workshop</strong></p>
<p>Co-presenters: Rachel Bernstein LMFT, MSEd, Ashlen Hilliard, Doni Whitsett, PhD, LCSW, Nitai Joseph, MSc</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>1:00 pm - 1:50 pm</p></td><td><p><strong>“That's not me”: An Exploration of Multi-Generation Adult leavers"</strong></p>
<p>Jill Aebi-Mytton, BSc, MSc, CPsychol, AFBPsS DPsych</p>
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Many of you have seen the recent ICSA announcement about the Two-Day Virtual Summer Conference!<br /><br />This two-day event will include a variety of presentations, panels, and workshops for former members of cultic groups, families and friends, professionals, and researchers.<br /><br /><a href="https://icsahome.networkforgood.com/events/21475-icsa-online-summer-conference?fbclid=IwAR1l33rXY3ak00DvmE0GEhbzvwgBsTao8YhGiD3SWQw98d0gXXvOuC0CkU4" style="color: #cc6511; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>Register</b></a><br /><br />Day 1 -- Saturday Conference Sessions, July 11, 2020 (11 am - 4 pm US Eastern Time)<br /><br />Day 2 -- Sunday Workshops, July 12, 2020<br /><br />Please contact ICSA if you need financial assistance to attend this event. mail@icsamail.com<br /><br />After registering, you will receive a conference packet which will be sent to your email soon with the detailed schedule, conference related materials, and meeting codes.<br /><br />Thank you so much to all the volunteers, speakers, and ICSA staff members that helped make this event possible!<br /><br /><div>
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"Coercive Control and Persuasion in Relationships and Groups– Intersections and Understandings" (Rod Dubrow-Marshall; Linda Dubrow-Marshall; Andrea Silverstone; Carrie McManus)</div>
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February 9, 2020<br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Large
Group Awareness Trainings (LGAT)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ground
Rules<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 16.0pt;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Erhard
Seminars Training (est)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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(John Hanley)<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Field of LGAT’s<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Large Group
Awareness Trainings (LGAT)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">LGAT was a name coined for personal development programs in which
many people at one time receive intense, emotionally focused instruction over a
period of hours or days to help them begin to discover the full potential for
their lives.<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Described by
Michael Langone (1998) as:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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psychotherapy, <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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spirituality, and <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">“Large-group awareness training refers
to programs that claim to increase self-awareness and facilitate constructive
personal change.” – Dennis Coon (2004)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Coon says LGAT’s
combine:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">psychological
exercises,<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">confrontation,
<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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view-points, and<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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combine:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">techniques
of hypnosis,<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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imagery<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">to conjure a new reality for the participants.</span></li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Notable LGAT
programs, which originated from the human potential movement of the 1950s and
1960s, include:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Actualizations
(Stewart Emery),<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lifespring
(John Hanley),<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ground Rules<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In their 1992 book Perspectives on the
New Age James R. Lewis and J. Gordon Melton argued that est used
"authoritarian trainers who enforce numerous rules," require applause
after participants "share" in front of the group and de-emphasize
reason in favor of "feeling and action."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Participants agreed to follow the ground rules
which included</span></b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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wearing watches, <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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talking until called upon, in which case they waited for a microphone to be
brought to them,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></li>
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talking to one's neighbors.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Not eating or leaving their seats to go to the
bathroom except during breaks -- separated by many hours. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Participants who were on medication were
exempt from these rules, and had to sit in the back row, “The Victim Row”.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">These classroom agreements provided a rigorous
setting whereby people's ordinary ways to escape confronting their experience
of themselves were eliminated.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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Training (est)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 16pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">1971 -
Erhard<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>held his first Large group
Awareness Training session, for nearly 1,000 paying attendees, in San
Francisco.</span></li>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">1974 - the
est training was delivered at the U.S. Penitentiary at Lompoc, California, with
the approval of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.</span></li>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1975 - Est claims to have trained 65,000 people.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">The est training presented several concepts to these new attendees, most
notably the concept of spiritual transformation and taking responsibility for
one's life. The actual teaching, called "the technology of transformation,"
emphasizes the value of integrity.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">1975 - Est claims to have trained 65,000 people.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">The1977 - Werner Erhard had a vision: He was going to end world hunger by
1997. To that end, he started the Hunger Project, a nonprofit that quickly
picked up celebrity sponsors including John Denver, Valerie Harper, and Jimmy
Carter's son Chip.</span></li>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">est training presented several concepts to these new attendees, most
notably the concept of spiritual transformation and taking responsibility for
one's life. The actual teaching, called "the technology of
transformation," emphasizes the value of integrity.</span></li>
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Project<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Werner Erhard had a vision: He was going to end world hunger by 1997. To that
end, he started the Hunger Project, a nonprofit that quickly picked up
celebrity sponsors including John Denver, Valerie Harper, and Jimmy Carter's
son Chip. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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reported in December 1978, the group had no intention of actually feeding the
starving, just raising "awareness" of hunger - and est. <o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Forum<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1991 -
Erhard sold his "technology" to brother Harry Rosenberg and moved out
of the country, facing bad press for both his movement and a soured personal
life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1983 – In
the USA, a participant named Jack Slee collapsed during a portion of the
seminar known as "the danger process" and died at the hospital to
which he had been transported.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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subsequently found that the est training was not the cause of death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">A jury later
ruled that Erhard and his company had been negligent but did not give Slee's
estate a monetary award.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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changes its name to the Forum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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"est" (Erhard Seminar Training) movement had hit some 700,000
converts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Erhard goes into exile. Landmark buys est's "technology" and
reportedly promises to pay Erhard a licensing fee for 18 years.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in Moscow, Erhard claims Scientologists are out to get him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Erhard unveils new management philosophy coauthored with a Harvard Business
School professor and the CEO of Landmark's consulting arm. Message:
"integrity is the pathway to trust."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Landmark claims to have trained more than 1 million people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; text-indent: -0.25in;">Lifespring,
founded in 1974, was a private, for-profit, New Age-human potential organization.
Lifespring stated they trained more than 400,000 people through its ten centers
across the country.</span><br />
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Sr., Robert White, Randy Revell and Charlene Afremow founded Lifespring in
1974.</span><br />
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lawsuits were filed against Lifespring for charges ranging from involuntary
servitude to wrongful death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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often claimed that the trainings place participants under extreme psychological
stress in order to elicit change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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had to pay out large amounts of money to participants who required psychiatric
hospitalization and to family members of suicides.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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jury decision came in 1984 in which Deborah Bingham testified she'd been in a
psych ward for a month after attending two Lifespring courses and was awarded
$800,000.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Martinez testified that she heard her trainer's voice in her head the night she
swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills; Lifespring settled out of court.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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family of David Priddle accepted an undisclosed sum when they sued Lifespring
after he jumped off a building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Artie
Barnett's family also reached an out of court settlement, when Barnett, who
couldn't swim, drowned during a Lifespring training. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pittsburgh lawyer Peter N. Georgiades won a $750,000 settlement for a
Lifespring trainee who was institutionalized for two years following Leadership
training.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Crowded Field of LGAT’s<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The profitable field Landmark helped
pioneer is now crowded with life coaches, time-management gurus, and
productivity bloggers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Landmark is just one of dozens of
quasi-philosophies that promise to empty your inbox and fulfill your personal
goals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Seminars<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Oscar Ichazo)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Project<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Course (Harry Palmer)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Shofar (founded by Simcha Frischling)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Europe (John Thompson & Sean Wilkinson)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Training (Randy Revell)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Coaching (Maria & Stephan Craemer)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Personal Growth Seminar<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Mind Approach<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Centering (Gavin Barnes, aka Bayard Hora Associates, aka The Course, aka
Naexus)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Leadership<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Seminars (John-Roger)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dynamics <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dynamics<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Seminars (James Roswell Quinn)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Training / Kairos Foundation / More to Life (W. R. Whitten and K. B. Brown)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Project<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Transformational Training<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Leadership Alliance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Dynamics (Alexander Everett)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Raniere)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Engolz)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(formerly Silva Mind Control) (José Silva)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Institute of Relationship (Arthur Kasarjian)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Leadership and Coaching<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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families and friends understand and effectively respond to the complexity
of a loved one's cult involvement.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></li>
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resources designed to help thoughtful families and friends understand and
respond to the complexity of a loved one’s cult involvement.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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group members and their families make the sometimes-difficult transition
from coercion to renewed individual choice.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></li>
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about cults, cultic groups, abusive relationships, movements, religions,
political organizations and related topics.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">news, links, resources (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter,
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Kelly</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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S. 13th Street</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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PA 19147</span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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679-5493; e-mail: </span><span style="color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><a href="mailto:joekelly411@gmail.com"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">joekelly411@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Intervention101.com</div>Cult Interventionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04261541249857681021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503191191615363919.post-21234392152270542842018-07-12T12:55:00.000-04:002019-04-30T12:55:49.062-04:00Disengagement: Lessons From Cults And Sectarian Groups<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">21st May 2018</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Suzanne Newcombe looks at cults and the reasons why people both leave and stay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Violent extremist ideologies, particularly those associated with ‘Islamic terrorism’, cause the same kind of headline concern in the media that ‘cults’ did forty years ago. For example, the mass suicide-murder of 918 individuals in Jonestown, Guyana in November 1978, at the behest of a charismatic religious leader, shook public opinion in a similar way to current Islamic State-inspired atrocities.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As we see in some accounts of young people joining Islamic State, the assumption for cults was that the converts were blameless and in some way vulnerable. They were brainwashed into joining those groups. A cottage industry of ‘deprogrammers’ developed, which at times forcibly kidnapped the ‘brainwashed’ and implemented an enforced programme of ‘thought-reform’ through physical control and mental intimidation.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eileen Barker’s seminal study of coverts to the Unification Church (often referred to as the Moonies after their founder-messiah figure Sun Yung Moon) proved that this popular model of understanding conversation to extreme groups was not backed up from evidence. What was needed was a more nuaunanced explanatory model to understand the factors for sudden turns towards extreme beliefs and behaviour.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Only a small proportion of cults ever engaged in violence, but many of those that didn’t might still be seen as extreme and extracting a high personal cost for membership. In this, we can see parallels between these groups and some terrorist movements. So, what we can learn from forty years of research into how people transition out of membership in high-demand religious groups?</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why do they leave?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">People leaving extremist groups voluntarily is both frequent and normal – whilst membership figures often remain constant many high-demand groups have high rates of turn-over.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes a specific event that ‘goes too far’ triggers exiting. These kinds of events could relate to witnessing abuse, acknowledging hypocrisy between ideology and behaviour, or being asked to collude with or perpetrate an act that exceeds that person’s sense of morality. Sometimes the ideology itself suddenly appears illogical or untenable.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For other individuals there can be a slow drift out of the group. A seeping disillusionment with ideology or behavioural hypocrisy can drive incremental disengagement. Or the converse can happen: behavioural shifts precipitate disengagement and a looser affiliation to the general ideology follows.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Some individuals continue to hold an ambiguous middle-ground of affiliation for years, expressing sympathy with the group but also distancing themselves from certain activities and ideas. Sometimes these ‘marginal’ individuals can have an important role in criticising and critiquing the group’s worldview, influencing positive organisational change through time.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why don’t they leave?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Of course, some never leave. This, despite what might appear to be obvious disconfirming evidences of the leader or belief system. What explains this behaviour? For some, exit costs are very high. They may have severed contact with friends and all social support outside the group. They may have given all financial assets to the group. They have been reliant on the group for employment, housing, and all social needs. There may also be a lingering mistrust of organisations which could help, based on years of antagonism towards ‘the system’.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In other cases, the main issue is a lack of basic knowledge of what structures and organisations might be able to support them, should they leave.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Helping people leave</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The psychological cost of ‘losing face’ should not be underestimated. It is humiliating to admit you were wrong about major life decisions. This psychological barrier can keep some people affiliated even if they hold serious misgivings. Interventions which enable people to ‘opt out’ without serious loss of face or humiliation can help in this respect.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For example, many people join religious groups because they are idealistic. They genuinely want to make the world a better place. It can be helpful to redirect the positive motivations for joining the group, linking these ideals with less harmful groups.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sympathetic friends or family can be a great help. Many find it easier to leave with another person or knowing they have a friend or relative who would welcome them into their home, at least for a time. People leaving groups need physical and psychological space to re-establish their identity and social networks. In the context of cults and sectarian groups, these are most often peer groups of other former members.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beliefs are messy and complicated. The same individual may present their belief system differently in special social contexts. This is normal. Expressions of belief are both performative and contextual. It is important to take aspects of religious worldviews seriously and literally.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But it is also important to leave room for an individual’s interpretations to change. If an individual becomes defined by a specific presentation of the ideology, she may feel pushed to defend it. Commitment to a specific credo may become more rather than less extreme when it is challenged directly.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">___</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr Suzanne Newcombe is a Lecturer in Religious Studies and a Research Fellow at Inform, based at the London School of Economics. Inform was founded in 1988 to empower decision-making and prevent the harm that can arise from misinformation about minority religions, sects, and related movements. It has 30 years experience in this field, acting as a bridge between academics, current and former members of cults, their friends and family, law enforcement, mainstream churches and government. Its database includes over 5,000 different groups and affiliated organisations.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This article appeared in issue 7 of CREST Security Review. You can read or download the original article </span><a href="https://crestresearch.ac.uk/csr/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read more</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David G. Bromley. (Ed.). 1998. The politics of religious apostasy: The role of apostates in the transformation of religious movements. Westport CT, London: Praeger. Available at: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/EMhp2z" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://goo.gl/EMhp2z</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">David G. Bromley. 2006. ‘Affiliation and disaffiliation careers in new religious movements’, in Eugene V. Gallagher and W. Michael Ashcraft (Eds.). Introduction to new and alternative religions in America. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press: pp. 42-64. Available at: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/EagLR2" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://goo.gl/EagLR2</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stuart A. Wright. 2007. The dynamics of movement membership: Joining and leaving new religious movements, in David G. Bromley (Ed.) Teaching New Religions. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press: pp. 187-209. Available at: </span><a href="https://goo.gl/2a283o" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://goo.gl/2a283o</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of CREST’s commitment to open access research this article is available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 licence. For more details on how you can use our content see </span><a href="https://crestresearch.ac.uk/copyright/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">here</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div>
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "segoe ui", "lucida grande", "helvetica neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;">Cult Recovery Readings</a></strong></h1>
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<li class="page-bidermans-chart-of-coercion" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/bidermans-chart-of-coercion/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Biderman’s Chart of Coercion</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-checklist-of-cult-characteristics" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/checklist-of-cult-characteristics/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Checklist of Cult Characteristics</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-clinical-update-on-cults" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/clinical-update-on-cults/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Clinical Update on Cults</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-coming-out-of-the-cults" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/coming-out-of-the-cults/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Coming Out of the Cults</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-coping-with-triggers" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/coping-with-triggers/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Coping with Triggers</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-cult-deception-dependency-and-dread" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/cult-deception-dependency-and-dread/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Cult Deception, Dependency, and Dread</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-cult-formation" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/cult-formation/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Cult Formation</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-dysfunctional-churches-cultic" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/dysfunctional-churches-cultic/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Dysfunctional Churches (Cultic)</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-essay-coping-with-trance-states" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/essay-coping-with-trance-states/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Essay: Coping With Trance States</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-evaluating-your-cult-involvement" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/evaluating-your-cult-involvement/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Evaluating Your Cult Involvement</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-group-cult-religion-psychological-abuse-scale" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/group-cult-religion-psychological-abuse-scale/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Group (Cult, Religion) Psychological Abuse Scale</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-how-to-find-information-on-a-cult-or-group" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/how-to-find-information-on-a-cult-or-group/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>How to Find Information on a Cult or Group</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-influence-cult" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/influence-cult/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Influence (cult)</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-on-using-the-term-cult" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/on-using-the-term-cult/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted rgb(0, 144, 211); box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>On Using the Term “Cult”</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-post-cult-after-effects" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/post-cult-after-effects/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Post-Cult After Effects</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-reflections-on-post-cult-recovery" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/reflections-on-post-cult-recovery/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Reflections on Post Cult Recovery</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-robert-jay-lifton-criteria-for-thought-reform" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/robert-jay-lifton-criteria-for-thought-reform/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Robert Jay Lifton Criteria for Thought Reform</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-singers-six-conditions-of-mind-control" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/singers-six-conditions-of-mind-control/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Singer’s Six Conditions of Mind Control</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-strong-indications-that-our-relationship-with-a-spiritual-teacher-is-unhealthy" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/strong-indications-that-our-relationship-with-a-spiritual-teacher-is-unhealthy/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Strong Indications that our Relationship with a Spiritual Teacher is unhealthy</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-the-manipulation-of-spiritual-experience-unethical-hypnosis-in-destructive-cults" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/the-manipulation-of-spiritual-experience-unethical-hypnosis-in-destructive-cults/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>The Manipulation of Spiritual Experience: Unethical Hypnosis in Destructive Cults</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-the-relational-system-of-the-traumatizing-narcissist" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/the-relational-system-of-the-traumatizing-narcissist/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-trauma-and-recovery-cult-brainwashing" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/trauma-and-recovery-cult-brainwashing/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Trauma and Recovery (cult, brainwashing)</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-types-of-cults" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/types-of-cults/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>Types of Cults</a></strong></li>
<li class="page-cult-recovery-readings" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i><a href="http://cultrecovery101.com/cult-recovery-readings/cult-recovery-readings/" style="border-bottom: 2px dotted transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0090d3; transition: all 0.5s ease-out;"><i style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: url("http://cultrecovery101.com/wp-content/themes/montezuma/images/icons.png"); background-origin: initial; background-position: -48px -84px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: 12px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: 10px; width: 12px;"></i>What is a cult?</a></strong></li>
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<span style="color: #333333;">The volume is divided into four parts: Part I offers perspectives on counselling from different professions; Part II offers chapters from the field leaders directly involved in counselling former members of minority religions; Part III offers unique personal accounts by members and former members of a number of different new religions; while Part IV offers chapters on some of the most pertinent current issues in the counselling/minority religions fields, written by new and established academics. In every section, the volume seeks to explore different permutations of the counsellor-client relationship when religious identities are taken into account. This includes not only ‘secular’ therapists counselling former members of religion, but</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span><span style="color: #333333;">the complexities of the former member turned counsellor, as well as counselling practised both within religious movements and by religious movements that offer counselling services to the ‘outside’ world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In 1984 the Cult Awareness Network compiled a list of more than 2,000 groups about which they had received inquiries (Hulet, 1984). As of May 24, 2003 ICSA (formerly AFF) had 4426 groups listed in its electronic files, which are populated mainly as a result of inquiries or news reports. I would not hazard an estimate of what percentage of these groups would be at risk of harming members. The quality and quantity of data on individual groups is simply too low to justify generalizations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most cultic groups appear to be small, having no more than a few hundred members. Some, however, have tens of thousands of members and formidable financial power.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Sociologists Bird and Reimer (1982), in surveys of the adult populations of San Francisco and Montreal, found that approximately 20% of adults had participated in new religious or para-religious movements (including groups such as Kung Fu), although more than 70% of the involvements were transient. Other data in this study suggest that approximately two to five percent of the subjects had participated in groups that are frequently thought to be cultic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A weekly omnibus survey conducted by ICR Survey Research Group for ICSA/AFF in 1993 found that about 1% of respondents said that they had been involved in a cult or what others might consider a cult.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the research study that led to the development of the Group Psychological Abuse Scale (Chambers, Langone, Dole, & Grice, 1994) subjects' average age of joining was 24.8 and their average time in their groups was 6.70 years (308 subjects from 101 groups; 60% left on their own without outside, formal assistance; 13% had been deprogrammed; 17% exit counseled; 9% ejected by their groups). Assuming a lifetime incidence of 2,500,000 people having belonged to cultic groups, a "lifetime" period of 30 years, and an average length of stay of six years, I roughly estimate that approximately 500,000 people belong to cultic groups at any one time and approximately 85,000 go in and out of cultic groups each year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bird, F., & Reimer, B. (1982). Participation rates in new religions and para-religious movements. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 21.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Rudimentary, vague, undefined, undefinable, Shinto for centuries didn’t even have a name. It didn’t need one; there was nothing to distinguish it from, nothing it was not. One good sentence can say everything there is to say about it — this one, for example, by historian Takeshi Matsumae: “In some rural areas even today (1993), elderly villagers face the rising sun each morning, clap their hands together, and hail the appearance of the sun over the peaks of the nearby mountain as ‘the coming of the kami.'”"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"That’s Shinto — the way (“to”) of the kami (“shin”). As to the kami — who might they be? “Gods,” we say in English, the language offering nothing better, but it’s too freighted a word, too suggestive of power rather than innocence, of something specific as opposed to anything, one knows not what."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"When she heard the news story of the 13 siblings allegedly held captive in their California home by their parents, Susanne Reisenbichler’s said her first reaction was, “Oh no. Somebody else.”"</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Reisenbichler and her sons Govinda Angulo and Josef Reisenbichler said hearing the reports on the Turpin siblings brought back memories of what they experienced while being confined to a cramped New York City apartment until just a few years ago."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"In a 2014 study of child torture, Barbara Knox, a pediatrician at the University of Wisconsin, found that 47% of school-age victims had been withdrawn from school for homeschooling and an additional 29% had never been enrolled."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"We keep a database of homeschool abuse cases and have found disturbing details repeated over and over. More than 40% of severe and fatal cases involve some form of imprisonment. The Turpin children were found chained to their beds. So was Calista Springer, a 13-year-old Michigan girl who died in a house fire in 2009 when she was unable to free herself. Christian Choate of Indiana was kept naked in a cage; he died in 2009, at age 13, but his death was not discovered until two years later. In Arizona, a 14-year-old girl was locked in a bedroom for more than a year and routinely raped by her father; she escaped by kicking down the door when the rest of the family was away and running two miles across town to the home of a friend from when she attended school."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"...[The]Turpins are also Quiverfulls, the sect of Christianity that strongly values a patriarchal, conversative culture. With the Duggars fronting as the group’s most visible members, the movement has been met with countless criticisms in the years since we met the reality TV family and stars of 19 Kids and Counting."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"In a piece for AlterNet, a woman who spent 16 years being raised in a Quiverfull church detailed what the abuse was like — detailing how “spiritual abuse” in the forms of physical, emotional, and mental abuse was especially detrimental."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Despite Hanoi banning the Chinese spiritual practice of Falun Gong and labelling it a “counter-revolutionary” cult, hundreds of members still meet in Vietnam’s capital."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“For the Chinese government, Falun Gong is a cult; many people who practise say it is a spiritual practice; scholars would say it is a religion,” he said, adding that the key components typically associated with cults have not been observed within Falun Gong.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“I don’t believe in the therapeutic virtue of Falun Gong exercise, but I think the [Chinese] government overreacted against those people, often retiree women, who found that meeting to practise these exercises was a nice way to socialise and stay fit,” said Laliberté.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A ruling to confiscate property worth 881.5 million rubles ($15.5 million) belonging to Jehovah's Witnesses organization banned in Russia has been appealed, the St. Petersburg courts’ press office has told RAPSI.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Joseph F. Kelly</b>, a graduate of Temple University (focus in religion), has been a cult intervention specialist (thought reform consultant/exit counselor,mediator) since 1989. He spent 14 years in two different eastern meditation groups (TM, International Society of Divine Love). He is a co-author of “Ethical Standards for Thought Reform Consultants,” published in ICSA’s <i>Cultic Studies Journal</i>, contributed a chapter to <i>Captive Hearts, Captive Minds</i>. He was (2010-2014) the News Desk Editor of <i>ICSA Today</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br />Mr. Kelly has also facilitated ICSA workshops for ex-members and families (1996-2018) and has lectured extensively on cult-related topics:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Some of the topics:</b></span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Inner Experience and Conversion</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">After the Cult "Coping with Trance States; Hypnosis and Trance" </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Coping with Triggers</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Mental-Health Issues in Cult-Related Interventions</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Leaving and Recovering from Cultic Groups and Relationships</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Communicating with Cult Members</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Restoring Family Connections</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Helping Families Address a Loved One’s Group Involvement</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Among the issues discussed are:</li>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">The ethics of an intervention</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Assessing a family situation</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Determining whether an intervention is appropriate</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Family preparation</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">The phases and dynamics of an intervention</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Alternatives to interventions</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Issues confronted after an intervention</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Workshop for Loved Ones: "How to Help a Loved One Affected by a Cult" </li>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">What Can Families Do? Family members concerned about a loved one‘s cult involvement or its aftereffects need to learn how to assess their situations more effectively and how to evaluate strategic options. </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">A Mediation Approach to Exit Counseling </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">From Deprogramming to Thought Reform Consultation </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Can Cultic Groups Change? The Case of ISKCON </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Evolution and Variation Within a Movement: The Case of ISKCON </li>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">"Cultic Group Intervention: Exploring internal experiences in Yoga, Qigong and Transcendental Meditation" </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Inside Out — One Group, One Fugitive Swami: Three Different Experiences </li>
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<b>Lectures/workshops - Universities, Countries </b><br /><ul style="line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;">
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">1999, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2004, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (Canada)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2005, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, (Spain)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2007, University Club, Brussels, (Belgium) </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2008, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2009, Geneva, Switzerland </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2010, Istituto Madonna del Carmine “Il Carmelo”, Via Doganale 1 Ciampino, Roma, (Italy) </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2011, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, (Spain)</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2012, Montreal, Canada</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2013, London School of Economics </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2014 University of Southern California </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2015, Stockholm, Sweden</li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2015, Beijing Union University, Beijing, China </li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">2017, Bordeaux France</li>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If we want to affect the behaviors and beliefs of the person in front of us, we need to understand what goes on inside their head.<br /><br />Tali Sharot<br />NBC<br />June 25, 2017<br /><br />People love propagating information and sharing opinions. You can see this online: every single day, four million new blogs are written, eighty million new Instagram photos are uploaded, and 616 million new tweets are released into cyberspace. It appears the opportunity to impart your knowledge to others is internally rewarding. A study conducted at Harvard University found that people were willing to forgo money so that their opinions would be broadcast to others. We are not talking about well-crafted insights here. These were people’s opinions regarding mundane issues, like whether coffee is better than tea. A brain imaging scan showed that when people received the opportunity to communicate their opinions to others, their brain’s reward center was strongly activated. We experience a burst of pleasure when we share our thoughts, and this drives us to communicate. It is a useful feature of our brain, because it ensures that knowledge, experience and ideas do not get buried with the person who first had them, and that as a society we benefit from the products of many minds.<br /><br />Of course, in order for that to happen, merely sharing is not enough. We need to cause a reaction —what Steve Jobs aptly referred to as making a “dent in the universe.” Each time we share our opinions and knowledge, it is with the intention of impacting others. Here is the problem, though: we approach this task from inside our own heads. When attempting to create impact, we first and foremost consider ourselves. We reflect on what is persuasive to us, our state of mind, our desires and our goals. But if we want to affect the behaviors and beliefs of the person in front of us, we need to understand what goes on inside their head.<br /><br />A study conducted at Harvard University found that people were willing to forgo money so that their opinions would be broadcast to others.<br /><br />What determines whether you affect the way others think and behave or whether you are ignored? You may assume that numbers and statistics are what you need to change their point of view. As a scientist I certainly used to think so. Good data, coupled with logical thinking – that’s bound to change minds, right? So I set out to test whether information alters people’s beliefs. My colleagues and I conducted dozens of experiments to figure out what causes people to change their decisions, update their beliefs, and rewrite their memories. We peered into people’s brains, recorded bodily responses, and documented behavior.<br /><br />Well, you can imagine my dismay when I discovered that all these experiments pointed to the fact that people are not driven by facts. While people do adore data, hard facts are not enough to alter beliefs, and they are practically useless for motivating action. Consider climate change: there are mountains of data indicating that humans play a role in warming the globe, yet approximately 50 percent of the world’s population does not believe it.<br /><br />The problem with an approach that prioritizes information is that it ignores the core of what makes us human; our motives, our fears, our hopes, our desires, our prior beliefs. In fact, the tsunami of information we are receiving today can make us even less sensitive to data because we’ve become accustomed to finding support for absolutely anything we want to believe with a simple click of the mouse. Instead, our desires are what shape our beliefs; our need for agency, our craving to be right, a longing to feel part of a group.<br /><br />The problem with an approach that prioritizes information is that it ignores the core of what makes us human; our motives, our fears, our hopes, our desires, our prior beliefs.<br /><br />So when it comes to getting your message across to others, consider if you can reframe the information you provide such that it taps into people’s basic motives. This does not mean altering the information itself, but rather presenting it in a different frame. For example, research suggests that framing advice to highlight how things can improve is more effective at changing behavior than warnings and threats, because it generates hope in people. Explaining how exercise improves health, for instance, is more likely to get people to the gym than warning them of obesity and related illnesses.<br /><br />And when it comes to altering how you respond to information, being aware of our biases can help. When you find yourself dismissing information that does not quite fit your world view, take a pause and reevaluate. Could there be merit in this new information, and could you use it to expand your views? Science has shown that waiting just a couple of minutes before making judgments reduces the likelihood that they will be based solely on instinct.<br /><br />Tali Sharot is an Associate Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, director of the Affective Brain Lab and the author most recently ofThe Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others(Henry Holt).<br /><br /><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/why-hard-facts-aren-t-enough-alter-our-beliefs-ncna803946" style="color: #cc6511; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/why-hard-facts-aren-t-enough-alter-our-beliefs-ncna803946</a></span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Intervention101.com</div>Cult Interventionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04261541249857681021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503191191615363919.post-40974144312681689752015-10-08T10:18:00.001-04:002015-10-08T10:18:49.312-04:0011 times the world was supposed to end and didn't<a href="http://www.cultnews101.com/2015/10/11-times-world-was-supposed-to-end-and.html?spref=bl">CultNews101 cult news, books, video's: 11 times the world was supposed to end and didn't</a><br /><br />
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<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://www.cultnews101.com/2015/10/11-times-world-was-supposed-to-end-and.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">11 times the world was supposed to end and didn't</a></h3><div class="post-header" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10.8px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1856037313201800080" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 550px;"><div dir="ltr" trbidi="on"><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">DINA SPECTOR</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Business Insider</span><br /><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">October 7, 2015</span><br /><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://static.businessinsider.com/image/50c25725eab8eafd7a000004-400/image.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; color: #888888; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="http://static.businessinsider.com/image/50c25725eab8eafd7a000004-400/image.jpg" height="240" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It’s October 7, 2015.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the day the world will come to an end, according to a Christian group based in Philadelphia.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It looks like we’re all still here, though it’s probably not the last time we’ll be warned about earth’s annihilation.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doomsday theorists and religious sects have been predicting The End for thousands of years.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fortunately, all of these dates have come and gone uneventfully.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To maintain your faith that you’ll live to see October 8, we’ve compiled 11 other dates when the world was supposed to end and didn’t.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intervention101.com</div>Cult Interventionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04261541249857681021noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3503191191615363919.post-88922877678803817012014-11-12T13:17:00.001-05:002014-11-12T14:13:50.460-05:00Court in Northern Netherlands: Transcendental Meditation Foundation ANBI Status can be withdrawn<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Administration has rightly withdrawn ANBI status of a Foundation that promotes the practice of Transcendental Meditation. That is the verdict court northern Netherlands came recently. According to the court edify its activities mainly private consumption interests of the participants.<br />
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The Foundation encourages the practice of Transcendental Meditation (TM) as taught by Maharishi Mahesh. Is a residential area this purpose achieved by the foundation in Lelystad. The foundation for the maintenance of the district and subsidizes the school, the organic shop and vegetarian restaurant. Participants rent a house or buy. The participants and all persons belonging to their household, are also a monthly contribution payable to the foundation. In dispute is whether the status of public benefit institution (ANBI) of the foundation routed there by July 1, 2012 is revoked.<br />
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Court Northern Netherlands ruled that the foundation with its activities, the private consumption interests of the participants mainly. To personal well-being and personal development of the participants have a beneficial effect on their environment. However, this effect is indirect and subordinate to the individual interests of the participants. Thus, the Foundation does not establish that the general interest of 90% or more (quantitative test) served by the activities of the foundation. The appeal of the foundation is unfounded.<br />
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