CONFERENCES AND TRAINING
Taken for a Ride - to ‘Hell’?
Effective Therapy with Former Members of Abusive Groups and Relationships
2 day Training Course for Therapists
12 hours CPD
Friday 11th and Saturday 12th May 2012 (Grindleford)
OR
Friday 7th and Saturday 8th September 2012 (London)
This training will explore the following:
Did you know there are over 800 ‘cults’ active in the UK at any one time and so you are likely to be in contact with someone who has been affected, including clients?
Did you know cults can be found in any area of society including psychotherapy, religion, spirituality and politics?
Have you ever heard of a therapist who has tried to control their client by telling them how to live, what to eat, what to wear and how to act?
Have you ever heard of a spiritual leader or group that has invited people to take part in what seems to be a bona fide yoga, meditation or Bible reading group (for example) that has resulted in their losing contact with family and lifelong friends, feeling trapped in the group and losing years of their life?
Did you know that those who leave cults often feel a deep sense of loss, guilt, devastation, disorientation and rage at the years lost to serving another’s agenda?
Did you know that therapy with such clients requires particular knowledge and understanding?
This course will cover
• how we can all be influenced and ‘taken for a ride’
• the similarities and differences between bullying, domestic abuse, cult, one-on-one cult and spiritual abuse
• the effects of ‘brainwashing’, thought reform and cult pseudo-personality
• how to help clients recover
• how to recognise and work effectively with these issues
• consultancy on specific cases
Price:
£215.00 - Contact:
For a booking form or to register your interest in this or future workshops contact Charlotte Spivey at:
info@hopevalleycounselling.com or on 01433 639032
Venue Grindleford:
The Maynard Hotel, Grindleford – www.themaynard.co.uk
10 miles from Sheffield; 5 mins walk from train station; on bus route
and 30 mins drive from junction 29 of M1
Trains from East Midlands Airport and Manchester Airport
Why not enjoy the beautiful scenery and stay on and enjoy relaxing and walking in the Peaks!
Includes breakfast roll, refreshments and two course lunch each day
Venue London:
Marie Curie Hospice,
11 Lyndhurst Gardens, Hampstead, London NW3 5NS
10-15mins walk from Belsize Park tube or Hampstead Heath train station (Silverlink)
Close to Premier Inn (7 mins walk)
215 Haverstock Hill, Hampstead,
London NW3 4RB
0871 527 8662
Buffet
Feedback from previous training:
I feel that my grasp of the implications of certain aspects dealt with in the course is now much greater than before. I really enjoyed the event and feel I learnt much that will be invaluable in the future. Thank you for your presentation and warm welcome.
The training will help me be more aware of clients who have suffered some sort of cultic abuse who may possibly be unaware themselves.
The venue was wonderful, yummy food, beautiful views and fantastic training and support!
Brilliant to be finally making a coherent step forward.
Gillie your work is so comprehensive. It is a wonderful opportunity for me to be a participant in this seminar and meet other most interesting persons! Thank you!
The best aspects of the event were: the excellent range of models, your personal and professional experience, contributions from others and a safe environment.
Other Training
If you are interested in receiving training on recovering from coercion, power, control, bullying, domestic abuse, cults or spiritual and other abuse please do get in touch. Gillie also offers training on Gestalt psychotherapy as well as other issues.
Previous Training
BRISBANE CIFS Cult Information Service
Recovery from Abusive and Controlling Groups and Relationships
Aimed at families and cult leavers
Tuesday 12th April 2011
7 for 7.30pm
Quakers Meeting House
10 Hampson Street, Kelvin Grove, 4049, QLD
People were very positive about the night you spoke in Brisbane. It was a good night.
SYDNEY CIFS
Helping Clients Recover from Controlling Groups and Relationships
Aimed at Mental Health Professionals
Tuesday 19th April
6.30 - 9.15
Golden Grove, 5 Forbes Street, Newtown, NSW
You are a great speaker – really easy to listen to (thank goodness!!)
ICSA CONFERENCE 2011
Barcelona 7-9 July 2011
Gillie Jenkinson and Sue Parker Hall spoke on
'Anger, Rage, Pseudo-Personality and Cults'
Sheffield Rape and Sexual Abuse Counselling Service
(SRASACS)
Conference on 16th November 2010 - 9-4.30
at St. Mary's, Brammall Lane, Sheffield
on
Cult Survivors: Hidden and Hard to Reach
contact Gillie for more details
and
Gillie spoke at the
ICSA London Event
on Sunday 21st November 2010
contact Gillie for more details
Gillie spoke at:
ICSA Conference Rome
Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th September 2010
New Cultic Groups in Society: Prevention, Information, and Assistance/
Nuovi culti e sette nella società: prevenire informare ed assistere
For information on this interesting conference go to:
www.icsahome.com
Gillie is presenting a paper with Professor Rod Dubrow Marshall on 'Recovery Issues for Former Group Members - Clinical Perspectives' and facilitating a 'Discussion Session - Recovery Issues for Ex-Members'
Feedback on International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA)
Annual Conference
was held in New York in 2010 - 1st - 3rd July.
www.icsahome.com /conferences
Gillie was busy at the conference this year and presented with Sue Parker Hall (author of 'Anger, Rage and Relationship, 2008, Routledge)
on 'Anger, Rage, Pseudo-Personality and Cults'
and Presented a clinical case study
and facilitated a Mental Health Professional Roundtable
Feedback on 10th July 2009 conference:
Cults – the unique issues and ways to recover
for Mental Health Professionals, Ex-members and Families of Members
10th July 2009 in central London
Speakers:
Lorna Goldberg, Chair of International Cultic Studies Association, William Goldberg, Dr. Nicki Crowley and Gillie Jenkinson
on how ex-cult members recover from an abusive cult experience, the dynamics of cults and how families cope. £85 plus meal if required.
Venue: Central London - to be announced later.
Contact info@hopevalleycounselling.com for more information.
We had a very successful day and the average feedback on a scale of 1-10 at was around 8.
'Things suddenly came together for me in my thinking on 10th July and I want to thank you so much for putting on the day.'
'Very, very encouraging and so, so helpful! I have learned so much, thank you.'
'Really great content, very thought provoking and informative.'
'It was helpful having people verbalise their experience and meeting other ex-members and talking with them (and some other very nice counsellors!).'
If you are interested in further training like this please do contact us.
