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Editor's Notes
ABOUT THE EDITOR:
Min Grob started
Conference on Coercive
Control in June 2015
following a relationship
that was coercive and
controlling.
Since then, there have
been three national
conferences, various
speaking engagements
and a newsletter. 2018
will see the start of
CCChat Live
Discussion Groups as
well as details of the
next Conference on
Coercive Control which
will be held in
Gloucester.
Let's grow the
conversation!
Welcome to this new look CCChat
A big hello to readers - both old and new- of CCChat. I am very
excited about this new magazine format. It has been a huge labour
of love starting so soon after a house move whilst still in the school
holidays but it is finally here! It has been worth every second and
if it results in a better understanding of coercive control and a
greater awareness of what is going on outside of someone's usual
sphere, then doubly so.
CCChat has already received a really positive response and I hope
this is continued as the newsletter transitions into an altogether
more glossy production which will hopefully grow with its
readership.
It was launched as a newsletter in March 2017, in response to
many requests for extra information. by attendees getting in touch
after various conferences. The aim was to keep coercive control at
the forefront of abuse discussion to enable a better understanding
amongst a large cross section of the population: victims, survivors,
frontline, students and academics.
It fills me with great joy that we are all talking much more openly
about domestic abuse and coercive control. This isn't a
conversation to be reserved for law enforcement, the justice
system and support services, this is a conversation that needs to be
had by all if we are to lift the lid on abuse that is invisible in plain
sight.
Min Grob
Editor
Contact: contact@coercivecontrol.co.uk
Editor's Notes
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