High-Demand Groups: Helping Former Members and Families

High-Demand Groups:
Helping Former
Members and Families
ICSA will conduct a conference in Santa Fe, New
Mexico November 2–3, 2013. This conference will
focus on the helping needs of former group
members and families concerned about a loved one
in a high-demand or cultic group or relationship.
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. Santa Fe has been chosen to
give ICSA’s western supporters an opportunity to
attend a conference closer to home.
Speakers include some of the cultic-studies field’s
most experienced mental health professionals, as
well as other experts. Among the mental health professionals attending will be contributors to a book
project that will present the clinical state of the art in this field.
More Info Online: https://sites.google.com/a/icsa.name/events/overview-santa-fe
Attend this conference if you are interested in how psychologically manipulative and demanding groups
can hurt people and what can be done to help those who are harmed. The agenda will address the
needs of those seeking help and those who want to help others. Among the topics to be explored are
Healing Through Writing (Sharon Farber, PhD)
Helping Families to Strategically Deal With the Cultic Situation: Case Studies and Family Therapy (William
Goldberg, MSW, LCSW, PsyA)
Approaches to Exit Counseling (Carol Giambalvo)
Conflict-Resolution Models (Patricia Millar, PhD)
Recovery Workshops: The Colorado Model (Carol Giambalvo; Nancy Miquelon, LPC, LPCC)
Support Groups: Two Approaches (Lorna Goldberg, MSW, LCSW, PsyA; William Goldberg, MSW, LCSW,
PsyA; Patrick Knapp, MA)
Children and Cults (speakers to be determined)
The Wellspring Model and Its Offshoots (Donna Adams-Weiss, PhD; Ron Burks, PhD; Greg Sammons,
MDiv)
Residential Treatment Modality for Cult Trauma Survivors (Judy Pardon, MA; Robert Pardon, MDiv, MTh)
What Former Members Need (speakers to be determined)
What I Learned Going Undercover in 18 Groups (David Sullivan)
Recovery Issues: Discussion (Moderator, Rosanne Henry, MA, LPC)
Discussion for People With Loved Ones in Groups (Moderator, Steve K. D. Eichel, PhD, ABPP)
Because Santa Fe is a “daytime” city, we have scheduled 2-hour lunch breaks so that attendees can
enjoy walking around old Santa Fe, where there are numerous art galleries, museums, and quaint
shops, as well as stunning Southwest architecture. The hotel will permit the special conference rate 3
days pre- and postconference for those who wish to spend time touring Santa Fe and its environs.
Please tell others about this conference. We hope you join us!

Registration Form
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September 1,
2013)
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September
1, 2013
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Member 2-day fee per person (member and immediate family) $100 (USD) $150 $
Nonmember 2-day fee per person (includes ICSA Web
membership)
One-Day fee per person—members or nonmembers—check day:
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