ICSA: 8-session virtual event. Building Bridges: Leaving and Recovering from Cultic Groups and Relationships

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ICSA: 8-session virtual event. Building Bridges: Leaving and Recovering from Cultic Groups and Relationships

Exit counselors Joseph Kelly and Patrick Ryan and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Rachel Bernstein will lead an 8-session ICSA virtual event.

The event will take place at 7:00 pm eastern time, beginning on April 24, 2019 and will continue weekly until June 12, 2019.

Topics discussed will include: 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; developing problem-solving skills; formulating a helping strategy; learning how to communicate more effectively with your loved one; learning new ways of coping.

The fee is $50 for the 8-session event, or $10 each for individual sessions.

More details.: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1H45q7ppkl09mJPdN43IWoeNsX9B4tnJ22ndIGsyFHMc/edit

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• Aspects of Cult Recovery
• Biderman’s Chart of Coercion
• Checklist of Cult Characteristics
• Clinical Update on Cults
• Coming Out of the Cults
• Coping with Triggers
• Cult Deception, Dependency, and Dread
• Cult Formation
• Dysfunctional Churches (Cultic)
• Essay: Coping With Trance States
• Evaluating Your Cult Involvement
• Group (Cult, Religion) Psychological Abuse Scale
• How to Find Information on a Cult or Group
• Influence (cult)
• On Using the Term “Cult”
• Post-Cult After Effects
• Reflections on Post Cult Recovery
• Robert Jay Lifton Criteria for Thought Reform
• Singer’s Six Conditions of Mind Control
• Strong Indications that our Relationship with a Spiritual Teacher is unhealthy
• The Manipulation of Spiritual Experience: Unethical Hypnosis in Destructive Cults
• The Relational System of the Traumatizing Narcissist
• Trauma and Recovery (cult, brainwashing)
• Types of Cults
• What is a cult?
• What messages are behind today’s cults?

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• Helping Organizations
• Therapist and Cult Specialists