International Cultic Studies Association offers a FREE SEMINAR, Sat Dec 19 at 12:00 noon EST
Category: Help
Resources and Upcoming USA Events for ex-members who joined -or were born in- Harmful Groups, friends and family
Portland (OR)
Stronger: Recovery from Spiritual Abuse and High-Control Groups
A one-day conference sponsored by the International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA). Workshop facilitators are educators and counselors who are knowledgeable and experienced with the unique trauma inflicted by spiritual abuse and the challenge of recovery from it. Workshops will provide an opportunity for dialogue regarding spiritual abuse with a view towards understanding, recovery, and support. There will also be a workshop for survivors who were born and raised in abusive groups. Please join us for a relaxed, informative day, and meet other survivors. You’re not the only one, and you’re not alone! All are welcome.
Saturday, September 21st, 2019, 9am-4pm
McMenamins Kennedy School, Portland, Oregon
Fee: $25 (includes lunch) – Register Online
Santa Fe (NM)
ICSA will conduct a conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico November 1-2, 2019. This biennial conference focuses on the needs of former members of cultic groups, movements, or relationships and the families of former or current members. It also includes continuing education training for mental health professionals. Conference sessions emphasize discussion so that participants can address issues pertinent to their individual concerns.
The agenda will address the needs of those seeking help and those who want to help others. A series of talks will address the conference theme of sexual abuse. Other sessions deal with practical issues pertinent to families, former members, helping professionals, and others.
The conference will take place at La Fonda on the Plaza, one of Santa Fe’s finest hotels, located in the heart of the old city. Images of Santa Fe.
Registration
More Info (hotel, directions, speakers, abstracts, etc.)
Chester, Connecticut
Workshop for Those Born/Raised in Cults
April 24-26, 2020
More Info: https://www.icsahome.com/events/workshopsgas
NY Monthly Meeting
The next ICSA NY meeting will be:
Friday, August 30, 2019 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Where: Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew (United Methodist), 263 W. 86th St., New York City (Subway stop: #1 train at 86th St. and Broadway) (map) – Social Hall (downstairs; handicap access via elevator).
More Info: https://sites.google.com/icsahome.com/icsa/events/localmeetings/newyork
Details on future ICSA Conversations that will occur during NY meetings: https://sites.google.com/icsahome.com/icsa/events/icsa-conversations
ICSA Bookstore
https://icsahome.networkforgood.com/events/7891-icsa-bookstore
Available Books
Betrayal of the Spirit (Nori Muster)
Born or Raised in a Sect (Lois Kendall)
Cult Recovery: A Clinician’s Guide to Working With Former Members and Families (Lorna Goldberg, William Goldberg, Rosanne Henry, Michael Langone, Eds.)
Coping with Cult Involvement: A Handbook for Families and Friends (Livia Bardin)
Recovery From Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse (Michael Langone, Ed.)
Transcendental Deception (Aryeh Siegel)
Whispering in the Daylight: The Children of Tony Alamo’s Christian Ministry and Their Journey to Freedom (Debbie Schriver)
Women Under the Influence (Janja Lalich, Ed.)
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ICSA (International Cultic Studies Association)
P.O. Box 2265
Bonita Springs, FL 34133
Phone: 1-239-514-3081
fax: 1-305-393-8193
E-mail: mail@icsamail.com
Website: www.icsahome.com
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Conference on Spiritual Abuse, Hartford, CT, Oct 2018
Spiritual Abuse Resources, a branch of prestigious International Cultic Studies Association is offering a conference in Hartford CT, in October. Avail yourself of this opportunity!
We know that Hartford is a Catholic and Christian area and houses the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi Movement among other controversial groups. The conference hopes to attract attendees from the Northeast and Canada and all over the USA. I.C.S.A often attracts international audiences from Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and as far away as Australia.
Some Religious groups and Movements, including from the Great Religions, Christian and Catholic traditions, can be harmful to some of the members some of the time -and to their family, friends and loved ones.
Spiritual Abuse has been flying under the radar for decades, but thanks to victims and concerned parents, therapists, researchers and communities it has been revealed and forced to emerge from the shadows.
And now we can go beyond passiveness and find information, answers and healing, to help ourselves, our families and others.
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Internacional Cultic Studies Annual Conference in Bordeaux, France, June 29…
Join former Legionaries of Christ, Xavier Leger, Paul Lennon and other former members of Catholic and Christian high demand groups and learn how European and other countries deal with questionable groups and communities, enjoy comeraderie and support of people who know where you are or have been…
http://www.icsahome.com/events/conferenceannuayl
SAMPLE PAPERw:
Addict, Idol and Cult Member: Reflections on the Loss of Self: A Phenomenological Examination of Destructive Cult groups
Tate Wood, Allen
My paper and talk are a phenomenological morphology of religious and political extremism. In the presentation, I give a detailed exposition of seven key elements that are present in the mind of the successfully indoctrinated group member. These seven elements include: absolute leader, absolute teaching, hierarchical social structure, the psychology of the adversary, the ends justify the means as a modus operandi, crisis psychology and the inner circle. The second part of my presentation includes an examination of the variables at play during the process of recruitment and indoctrination: milieu control, communication web/the manipulation of intimacy, peak experiences and planned spontaneity, the splitting phenomenon: the experience of evil, metaphor and ritual: the binding chains, the repudiation of the conscience, the rejection of the critical faculties and the colonization of the imagination understood as an experience of god. My remarks will be punctuated by anecdotal material from my life in the Unification Church including my direct contact with Sun Myung Moon. In addition, I shall be drawing on my 27 years as an addiction counselor working with alcoholics and addicts in county jails and state prisons.
Can you help me? I am an active, former..member of Regnum Christi … Legion of Christ or other Catholic/Christian group
Help is available.
You can contact us via this page; we might say something like:
Thanks for contacting us.
Hope you are well and safe. Be safe in body, mind and soul.If you are suicidal go to your nearest emergency center. Tell a friend. Find people who accept you. Don’t bother with others…
ANSWER:
you can talk and communicate with me and other members of ReGAIN via email, phone, Facebook…and or with counselors you would be comfortable with; priests, cult counselors, mental health therapists, former members, etc..
We would try to contact you depending on where you are and what you want/need.
We would get you emotional support and maybe some material if you were in dire need