Upcoming Successful, Secure & HIPAA-Compliant Online Workshops in April, and May, 2020

Facilitators:  Colleen Russell, LMFT, CGP, and Janja Lalich, PhD, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Co-Author of Take Back Your Life, Recovering From Cults and Abusive Relationships (2006) and Escaping Utopia, Growing Up in a Cult, Getting Out, and Starting Over (2018)

Sharing Wisdom, Challenges, Successes, Supporting One Another

Educational, supportive, interactive, offering participants opportunities to address issues relevant to their lives, and learn how others have coped through challenging times. Janja and Colleen include brief presentations with a few slides on specific topics such as the following:

• Healthy and coercive relationships
• Communication with parents or other family members still involved
• Trauma and PTSD symptoms including dissociation, and how to navigate through them
• Coping Tools for Covid-19 
• The "Bounded Choice" model of coercive control and influence
• What former members have found helpful to their recovery
• Evaluating charismatic authorities in your life; Red Flags, How to Protect Oneself
• Rules of dysfunctional systems in families, relationships, workplaces and other groups
• Ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief
• Disconfirming Inaccurate beliefs from ideologies, family of origin, other relationships

Upcoming Workshop Schedule

• Saturday, April 18, 10:00 AM  - 1:00 PM PDT
• Saturday, May 2,   10:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT 
• Saturday, May 16, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM PDT

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