Building Bridges: Improving Communication Across Worldviews, How to Stay Connected with A Cult Involved Loved One - Joseph Kelly

Building Bridges: Improving Communication Across Worldviews, How to Stay Connected with A Cult Involved Loved One - Joseph Kelly

Online Event: Uniting the Continents: Support for the Pacific Rim -- for Families and Former Members Affected by Cultic Groups

* Pacific Rim/UK: September 12/13, 2020, Saturday/Sunday
* North America: September 11/12, 2020, Friday/Saturday
https://events.culteducationevents.com/

Abstract
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.

Biography
Joseph F. Kelly, a graduate of Temple University (focus in comparative 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 Cultic Studies Journal, contributed a chapter to Captive Hearts, Captive Minds. He was (2010-2014) the News Desk Editor of ICSA Today. He has lectured internationally (University of Southern California, University of Pennsylvania, University of Barcelona, London School of Economics, Beijing Union University) on cult-related topics including: "Inner Experience and Conversion", "Coping with Trance States; Hypnosis and Trance", "Mental-Health Issues in Cult-Related Interventions", "Leaving and Recovering from Cultic Groups and Relationships", "Communicating with Cult Members" and "A Mediation Approach to Exit Counseling".


Websites: http://cultmediation.com/;  https://www.intervention101.com/; http://cultrecovery101.com/;
https://www.cultnews101.com/
Email: joekelly411@gmail.com 
Phone: (215) 467-4939.


Online Event: Uniting the Continents: Support for the Pacific Rim -- for Families and Former Members Affected by Cultic Groups

* Pacific Rim/UK: September 12/13, 2020, Saturday/Sunday
* North America: September 11/12, 2020, Friday/Saturday
https://events.culteducationevents.com/