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/home
Abstract
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.
Biography
Nitai Joseph, MSc., is a researcher, advocate, and consultant focused on interpersonal influence and complex trauma. In 2020 he received a master’s degree in Psychology of Coercive Control from the University of Salford, where his dissertation explored the first-hand views on diagnosis and treatment among those harmed in coercive relationships and environments.
In addition to being a co-creator of the Coercive Control Collective, Nitai’s current work includes research on adverse meditation experiences, as well as his day job promoting awareness and prevention of child sexual abuse through a nonprofit in his home state of Maryland. Nitai was raised on the fringes of a cultic sect and had been a devout member in early adulthood.
Website: www.CoerciveControlCollective.org
Email: Nj2365@columbia.edu
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/home
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