This event will offer an opportunity for
organizations to share their collective knowledge and experience -- across many
continents.
The conference includes fourteen plus,
fifty-minute sessions and a three-hour Former Member Workshop.
Online Event - Zoom
Pacific
Rim/Europe
September 12/13, 2020, Saturday/Sunday
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Sydney (9 am - 3 pm)
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Beijing (7 am - 1 pm)
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Hong Kong (7 am - 1 pm)
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New Zealand (11 am - 5 pm)
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Singapore (7 am - 1 pm)
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Tokyo (8 am - 2 pm)
● UK (1 am - 6 am)
North
America:
September 11/12, 2020, Friday/Saturday
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US-East Coast (7 pm - 1 am)
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Central Time (6 pm - midnight)
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Mountain Time (5 pm - 11 pm)
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West Coast (4 pm - 10 pm)
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Hawaii (1 pm - 7 pm)
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£150/UK
Sessions/Talks
Jill Aebi-Mytton, BSc, MSc, CPsychol, AFBPsS DPsych
That's not me”: An Exploration of Multi-Generation Adult leavers
Abstract
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.
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.
Biography
Jill Mytton, M.Sc., C.Psychol., DPsych is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist. In 2017 she completed a Professional Doctorate in Psychotherapy through Middlesex University. Her research interest is the mental health of Multi-Generational (a new category coined by Jill) and Second Generation Adults, i.e., those born or raised in cultic groups. She is listed on the British Psychological Society media list for Cults and Thought Reform and has been involved in several TV and Radio broadcasts. She has presented at several conferences, including: INFORM London, April 2008; Division of Counselling Psychology Annual conferences; ICSA Annual Conferences in Geneva 2009, Montreal 2012, Stockholm 2015, Bordeaux 2017 and Manchester 2019. She was born and raised in the Exclusive Brethren, leaving at the age of 16. Apart from a small private practice, she also runs an email support group for former Exclusive Brethren and has become a point of contact for leavers of several groups.
Rachel
Bernstein, MSed, LMFT
Unique Ways to Help your Loved One in a
Cult or Manipulative Relationship
Abstract
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.
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.
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.
Rachel
Bernstein, MSed, LMFT
From Surviving to Thriving After Leaving
- Steps to Take on the Road to Recovery
Abstract
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.
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!
Biography
Rachel Bernstein, MSed, LMFT, has been working with former cult members for
nearly 30 years. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and Educator,
who lives in Los Angeles, CA. She has been a member of ICSA for many years and
has presented talks and moderated panels at ICSA conferences. She was the
Clinician at both the former Cult Clinic in Los Angeles and the Cult Hotline
and Clinic in Manhattan. She now treats former cult members and their families
and friends in her private practice.
Rachel facilitates support groups for former cult members and the former
partners of narcissists. Rachel has published articles, made media appearances,
consulted on shows and movies about cults, and has been interviewed for
podcasts and YouTube videos. Rachel is the host of her weekly Podcast, "IndoctriNation,"
about breaking free from systems of control.
Website:
RachelBernsteinTherapy.com Email: bernsteinlmft@gmail.com Phone (818) 907-0036
Linda
Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, Reg. MBACP (Accred.), Rod Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, MBPsS
The
Spectrum of Coercive Control in Cults, Extremist Groups and Abusive
Relationships
Abstract
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.
Biography
Linda Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, MBACP
(Accred.), Counselling and
Clinical Psychologist, is the Chair of the Mental Health Committee for ICSA.
She is a co-founder of RETIRN, a private practice that provides services to
individuals and families who have been affected by cultic and abusive groups
and relationships. Along with Dr Rod Dubrow-Marshall, Linda developed and
co-leads the MSc Psychology of Coercive Control programme at the University of
Salford, and offers private consultations through the Re-entry Therapy,
Information and Referral Network (RETIRN/UK). She is registered with the Health
and Care Professions Council, United Kingdom, as both a clinical and
counselling psychologist, and she is an accredited counsellor/psychotherapist
with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. She is a
licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania and a registered psychologist with the
National Register of Health Service Psychologists in the USA. She has
specialist certifications in Addictions, Clinical Hypnosis, and Eye Movement
Desensitization and Reprocessing.
Website:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/linda-dubrow-marshall-phd-066b7aa/ Email: ljdmarshall@aol.com or l.dubrow-marshall@salford.ac.uk
Biography
Rod Dubrow-Marshall, PhD, MBPsS, is a Professor of Psychology who developed and
is Co-Programme Leader, MSc Psychology of Coercive Control, and a Visiting
Fellow in the Criminal Justice Hub at the University of Salford, UK. Rod has been researching the psychology of
coercion and undue influence including in cults or extremist groups for over
twenty years and developed the evidence based Totalistic Identity Theory to
explain and tackle ideological and violent extremism. Rod is a member of the
Board of Directors of the International Cultic Studies Association and is Chair
of the ICSA Research Committee and Network and co-Editor of the International
Journal of Coercion, Abuse and Manipulation (IJCAM). In 2006, he was awarded
The Herbert L. Rosedale Award, jointly with Dr. Paul Martin, for their
psychological research on undue influence. He offers private consultations and
is an exit worker with the Re-entry Therapy, Information and Referral Network
(RETIRN) UK.
Lorna
Goldberg, LCSW, PsyA
Cult Recovery: Gaining Trust After Cult
Exploitation
Abstract
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.
Biography
Lorna Goldberg, LCSW, PsyA, Board member and past president of ICSA, is a
clinical social worker/psychoanalyst and Director, Institute for Psychoanalytic
Studies. In 1976, Lorna and Bill Goldberg began a support group in Englewood, New
Jersey, which continues online at this time. Some of her recent articles
include Goldberg, L. (2012). “Influence of a Charismatic Antisocial Cult
Leader: Psychotherapy with an Ex-Cultist Prosecuted for Criminal Behavior,” International Journal of Cultic Studies,
Vol.2, 15-24. Goldberg, L. (2011). “Diana, Leaving the Cult: Play Therapy
in Childhood and Talk Therapy in Adolescence,” International Journal of Cultic Studies, Vol.2, 33-44. Lorna has
co-written with Bill Goldberg, “Psychotherapy with Targeted Parents,” in Working with Alienated Children and Families
(2012). She co-edited ICSA's Cult
Recovery: A Clinician’s Guide to Working with Former Members and Their
Families. (2017). She has written “Therapy with Former Members of
Destructive Cults” in New Religious
Movements and Counselling (2018). Website: blgoldberg.com Email: lorna@blgoldberg.com
Ashlen
Hilliard
Can
cults be leaderless? How a high-control environment can occur in the absence of
a de facto leader
Abstract
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.
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.
The context for this discussion will pull
from reflections of being a born and raised former member of a fundamentalist
Christian sect.
Biography
Ashlen Hilliard is the Assistant to the Executive
Director for the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA). Before ICSA,
she worked as a case manager that helped individuals leaving polygamy out west.
ICSA has provider her with a greater appreciation of the spectrum of coercive
control and its international dimension, and her current focuses are event
organization and former member outreach.
She
was born and raised in the fundamentalist churches of Christ (Stone-Campbell
Restoration Movement), and attended the sect’s choice of higher education at
Florida College, where she received her BA in Communication with a minor in
Biblical Studies.
Ashlen
relocated to Portland, Oregon earlier this year where she is involved in local
Spiritual Abuse Forum for Education (SAFE) Meetups for survivors of cultic and
spiritual abuse. Ashlen facilitates support groups and meetings online for
former members of cultic groups, and organized a webinar series during COVID-19
to help provide cult recovery and family support in an online format.
She
has been interviewed on cults on NPR One
Podcast Series with FGCU and The
Tennessee Holler. She has published an article in ICSA Today 10.2 / 2019 on, The
Genesis, Text, and Implications of Utah House Bill 214: Office for Victims of
Crime Amendments. In addition to
event organization, she has also presented at multiple ICSA conferences.
Ros Hodgkins
Biography
I graduated in General Nursing and loved working within this area in Sydney. Met and married my husband in 1966. Four children came along and we moved South from Sydney onto a family property. Life was good.
I was ignorant of cults other than knowing about Hare Krishna’s and Scientology, I had no idea of the many hundreds of cults that existed within Australia.
Our daughter was recruited into the Boston Movement in 1990, a very quick learning curve began. A Meetup Up Group began in Sydney with parents to share and become educated on the dynamic’s that cults use.
I have been involved in CIFS since it began 30 years ago, I answer CIFS phone and Emails enquiries, and provide support and information to many former members and families. Many have visited us on our property to enjoy the quiet surroundings and resource library that fills a very large bookcase.
Website: http://www.cifs.org.au/ Email: info@cifs.org.au Phone: +61 0423-332-766
Dr
Gillie Jenkinson, PhD
Cult
Recovery: What helps former members recover?
Abstract
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.
Biography
Dr
Gillie Jenkinson, PhD, is a Reg MBACP and UKCP accredited
psychotherapist in the UK. She is experienced in delivering counselling
face-to-face as well as on the telephone and online. She served two internships
at Wellspring Retreat Center, Ohio, and has many years’ experience working with
trauma, including survivors of religious, spiritual, cultic, and sexual abuse. Her
approach to counselling former members is described in ‘Cult Recovery: A
clinician’s guide to working with former members and families’ and entitled ‘Relational Psychoeducational Intensive: Time
Away for Post-Cult Counselling’. Gillie was a member of an abusive
Bible-based cult in the 1970’s. She is currently delivering an online training
for former member therapists in UK – ‘Certificate in Post Cult Counselling’.
She is the Mental Health Editor for ICSA
Today. Gillie’s doctoral research dissertation is entitled: ‘Freeing the authentic-self: Phases of
Recovery and Growth from an Abusive Cult Experience’.
Website: www.hopevalleycounselling.com
Email: info@hopevalleycounselling.com Phone: +44 1433 639032.
Nitai
Joseph, MSc
The
Restoration of Individual Ideological Power: Making Sense of the Cultic Abuse
Experience
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.
Joseph
Kelly
Building
Bridges: Improving Communication Across Worldviews, How to Stay Connected with
A Cult Involved Loved One
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.
Yuval Laor, PhD
The
Neurobiology of 'Awe' in Cult Recruitment
Abstract
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.
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.”
Biography
Yuval
Laor received his PhD in culture studies from Tel Aviv
University, where he was supervised by leading evolutionary biologist Eva
Jablonka. His dissertation explored the evolution of religious psychology, with
an emphasis on evolutionary accounts of the human capacity for fervor and
sudden conversion, and his subsequent, highly original work has focused on the
nature of fervor. Yuval has published articles in the Journals of Religion
Brain and Behavior and History and Theory. He is currently working on a book entitled
Fervor: What cults can teach us about the evolution of religion.
Email: yuvallaor@gmail.com Phone: (720) 227-3549
Patrick
Ryan
Why
People Join, Stay and Leave Groups, A Cult Model
Abstract
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.
Biography
Patrick
Ryan is the founder and former head of TM-EX, the organization
of ex-members of Transcendental Meditation.
He established ICSA's online resource (1995-2013), was the editor of AFF News, a news publication for former
cult members (1995-1998), has contributed to the Cult Observer, AFF’s book, Recovery From Cults, is co-author of
"Ethical Standards for Thought Reform Consultants," and has presented
50 programs about hypnosis, inner-experience, trance-induction techniques,
communicating with cult members, conversion, cult intervention, exit
counseling, intervention assessment, mediation, religious conflict resolution,
thought reform consultation, eastern groups, transcendental meditation and
workshops for educators, families, former members and mental health
professionals at ICSA workshops/conferences. Mr. Ryan received the AFF
Achievement Award (1997) from AFF, the Leo J. Ryan "Distinguished Service
Award" (1999) from the Leo J. Ryan Foundation, and a Lifetime Achievement
Award (2011) from ICSA. Websites:
http://cultmediation.com/;
https://www.intervention101.com/; http://cultrecovery101.com/;
https://www.cultnews101.com/
Email: cultintervention@gmail.com Phone: (215) 467-4939.
Joseph
Szimhart
CULTS
and DEATH: A new look at Ernest Becker’s 1973 book, The Denial of Death
Abstract
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.
Biography
Joseph
Szimhart defected from a Theosophy cult in 1980 before his career
as a cult interventionist and research specialist. He was chairman of a cult
information organization in New Mexico for seven years. He is a crisis
caseworker at a psychiatric emergency hospital and has an art career. He
maintains a website, lectures, consults for the media, and has published
articles, book reviews, and papers related to the cult problem. His novel, Mushroom Satori: The Cult Diary, was released in
2013. Memoir released in 2020: Santa Fe,
Bill Tate, and me. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from ICSA in
2016.
Website: http://jszimhart.com/ Email:
jszimhart@gmail.com Phone: (484)
529-1936.
Doni Whitsett, PhD, LCSW
Neurobiology
of sexual abuse: stress, trauma, and resilience
Abstract
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.”
Biography
Doni Whitsett, PhD, LCSW, is a Clinical Professor at the USC Suzanne
Dworak-Peck School of Social Work where she teaches courses in clinical
practice, psychopathology, and human sexuality. She has been working with
cult-involved clients and their families for over 25 years and gives lectures
to students and professionals on this topic. She has presented both nationally
and internationally at conferences in Canada, France, Poland, Spain, , and
Australia, where she helped organize two conferences in Brisbane. Her talks
have included The Psychobiology of Trauma
and Child Maltreatment (2005, Madrid) and Why Cults Are Harmful: A Neurobiological View of Interpersonal Trauma
(2012, Montreal). Her presentations and publications focus on neurobiological
and psychological understanding of coercive control, manipulation, and
intimidation including -- trauma, sexual abuse, and recovery. Additionally, as
a certified sex therapist, Dr. Whitsett was awarded a Fulbright Specialist
Scholarship in 2016 to study, teach, and do research in China.
Email:
whitsett@usc.edu Phone: (323) 907-2400.
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Whitsett, Doni P. PhD (Clinical Professor of Social Work,
University of Southern California)
About
Sponsoring and Supporting Organizations
CIFS Australia (Cult Information and Family Support)
Cult Mediation/Intervention101 offers resources
designed to help thoughtful families and friends understand and respond to the
complexity of a loved one’s cult involvement.
CultRecovery101 assists group members and
their families make the sometimes difficult transition from coercion to renewed
individual choice.
Founded in 1979, the International Cultic
Studies Association (ICSA) is a global network of people concerned about
psychological manipulation and abuse in cultic and other high-control
environments. ICSA is tax-exempt, supports civil liberties, and is not affiliated
with any religious or commercial organizations. ICSA is unique in how it brings
together former group members, families, helping professionals and researchers.
ICSA's mission is to provide information,
education, and help to those adversely affected by or interested in cultic and
other high-control groups and relationships.
ICSA fulfills its mission by applying
research and professional perspectives to:
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Help former members of cultic and other high-control
environments
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Provide guidance and support to families of people
involved in high-control environments
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Educate the public about psychological manipulation and
the harmful effects of high-control environments
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Encourage, support, and conduct research to advance
understanding of psychological manipulation and high-control environments
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Support helping professionals interested in this area
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ICSA’s main event is its annual international conference,
which takes place alternating years in Europe or North America. ICSA's annual
conference is the conference to attend if you are interested in cultic studies.
In recent years about 125 persons have volunteered to speak at the annual
conference.
With the help of volunteers, ICSA
conducts a variety of regional conferences and webinars and local meetings.
Website: https://www.icsahome.com/
The
unique MSc Psychology of Coercive Control programme (at the University of
Salford, UK) is entering its fourth year in September and for the first time as
a fully online programme with students joining from around the world. The
programme will be of interest to those who are working in professions and organisations
that focus on supporting survivors of domestic abuse, trafficking or gangs, and
extremist groups or cults, and those who support refugees or others who have
survived coercive environments. The programme will be useful to those who are
taking a lead in safeguarding in educational and other settings working with
young people who may be vulnerable to abuse.
The
programme will give students an understanding of the psychological processes
involved in coercive and controlling behaviour, which may be embedded within a
family or peer group, or within a wider community setting. Throughout the
programme, you will also gain techniques and understanding regarding the
prevention, effects and recovery from coercive and controlling behaviour.
You
will receive tailored support from a highly experienced and qualified team of
psychology experts and professional staff who are involved in advancing
practice and research regarding the prevention, effects and recovery from
coercive and controlling behaviour.
The
master’s programme is being offered fully online and all lectures are delivered
live and are recorded so that they can be listened to and watched at the
student’s convenience and online tutorials will also be offered. You have the
opportunity to study this course full-time over one year, or part-time over
three years. Additionally, you can apply for the Postgraduate Diploma (4
modules/courses without a dissertation)
or the Postgraduate Certificate (2 modules/courses).
IndoctriNation
A
weekly podcast covering cults, manipulators, and protecting yourself from
systems of control.
Rachel
Bernstein, LMFT has been working with victims of cults and emotional abusers
for 27 years. Given the right set of circumstances, it’s all too easy for
anyone to fall prey to sociopaths and manipulators.
Rachel
wanted to start a show that gives survivors a chance to tell their stories and
for experts to teach us what they know. My goal for IndoctriNation is to
empower our listeners to protect themselves and those they love from predators,
toxic personalities, and destructive organizations.
RETIRN UK
The Re-Entry Therapy Information and
Referral Network (RETIRN) UK is a group practice specializing in working with
individuals and families adversely affected by undue influence and coercion in
extremist groups, cults and other manipulative social movements and in
coercive, controlling and abusive relationships. RETIRN offers individual,
family and group psychotherapy, psycho-education, exit consultations,
forensic services and clinical supervision. RETIRN is a correspondent member of
FECRIS (European network on sects/cults), and Linda and Rod are Specialist
Consultants with the Countering Violent Extremist Unit, Commonwealth
Secretariat and also attend and contribute to
meetings of the European Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN).
Fee for two-day event: $195/US
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