|
Time |
Event |
Room |
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8:00 AM
9:00 PM
|
Bookstore & Registration
THURSDAY - SATURDAY |
Foyer
Lower Level |
|
Thursday, October 14 - Pre-Conference
Workshops
|
|
10:00
- 5:00 * |
Workshop for Former Group Members
Carol
Giambalvo; Joseph Kelly |
Garbo
Lower
Level |
|
10:00
- 5:00 |
Workshop for Family Members
Livia Bardin,
M.S.W. & Patrick Ryan (MDL) |
Valentino
Lower
Level |
|
12:00
– 1:00 |
Lunch
[Meal is only for those who signed up for the meal; see your name
badge] |
Mansfield I
Lobby
Level |
|
3:00
– 3:30 |
Break/Refreshments |
Foyer
Lower
Level |
|
5:00
– 6:00 |
Pre-Dinner Social with cash bar |
Mansfield I
Lobby
Level |
|
6:00
-
7:00 |
Dinner
[Meal is only for those who signed up for the meal; see your name
badge] |
Mansfield I
Lobby
Level |
|
7:00
– 9:00 pm |
Coping With Triggers (for ex-member workshop
participants)
Joseph Kelly |
Valentino
Lower
Level |
|
7:00
-
11:00 |
Evening Social with cash bar |
Mansfield I
Lobby
Level |
|
Friday
|
|
9:00 - 9:15 |
Welcome and
Introduction
Alan Scheflin,
J.D., LL.M. |
Bogart/Hepburn
Lower
Level |
|
9:15
- 10:30 |
The Comet and Its
Tail: Cultic Studies from Afar
Michael D. Langone, Ph.D. |
Bogart/Hepburn
Lower
Level |
|
10:30
– 11:00 |
Break/Refreshments |
Foyer
Lower Level |
|
11:00
- 12:30 |
Analysis of
Ex-Members from the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center: Building
a Model of Ex-Member Pathology and Identity
Ron Burks, Ph.D.; Paul Martin, Ph.D.; Carmen Almendros |
Valentino
Lower
Level |
|
Controversies
Concerning Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf Schools, I
Sharon Lombard, B.F.A., Coordinator; Diana Winters (How
Anthroposophy's Beliefs Manifest in Early Waldorf Education);
John Holland (The Story Behind
OpenWaldorf.com); Discussant: Michael Winship, Ph.D. |
Garbo
Lower
Level |
|
Approaches to Exit
Counseling: Part I
David Clark,
Rick Halpern; Patrick Ryan; Craig Branch; Discussants: Sandy Andron;
Carol Giambalvo |
Fitzgerald
Lower
Level |
|
12:30
– 2:00 |
Lunch
[Meal is only for those who signed up for the meal; see your name
badge]
Luncheon Speaker 1:30 – 2:00: M.
Langone - AFF Progress Report |
Mansfield 3
Lobby
Level |
|
2:00
–
3:30 |
ISOT (In Search of Truth)
Michael
Martella, M.F.T., Coordinator;; Ed Abdallah; Joyce Martella |
Valentino
Lower
Level |
|
Controversies
Concerning Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf Schools, II
Dan Dugan
(How Waldorf Schools are Promoted in the Media); Discussant:
Michael Winship, Ph.D. |
Garbo
Lower
Level |
|
Approaches to Exit
Counseling: Part II
David Clark,
Rick Halpern; Patrick Ryan; Craig Branch; Discussants: Sandy Andron;
Carol Giambalvo |
Fitzgerald
Lower
Level |
|
3:30
-4:00 |
Break/Refreshments |
Foyer
Lower
Level |
|
4:00
-5:30 |
One-on-One Cultic
Relationships
Lois Bernard, L.C.S.W.
(Out of the Forest: A Comparison of Cult Thought Reform to the
Battering Relationship); Discussants: Lorna Goldberg, M.S.W.;
William Goldberg, M.S.W. |
Valentino
Lower
Level |
|
Controversies
Concerning Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf Schools, III
Peter
Staudenmaier (Race and Redemption: Racial and Ethnic Evolution in
Rudolf Steiner's Anthroposophy); ); Discussant: Michael Winship,
Ph.D. |
Garbo
Lower
Level |
|
The Nuwaubians: From a Black
Separatist to Supremacist Cult
Gary Wilkerson, M.Ed.; Discussant: Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D. |
Fitzgerald
Lower
Level |
|
5:00
– 6:00 |
Pre-Dinner Social
with cash bar |
Lombard
Lobby
Level |
|
6:00
– 7:30 |
Dinner
[Meal is only for those who signed
up for the meal; see your name badge]
Dinner Speaker 7:00 – 7:30: Patrick
Ryan - How to Use AFF's Web Sites |
Lombard
Lobby
Level |
|
7:30
– 9:00 |
Points and
Perspectives: Readers & Author Together Discussing Bounded
Choice: True Believers and Charismatic Cults
Author: Janja Lalich, Ph.D.; Miriam Williams Boeri, Ph.D.; J. Anna
Looney, Ph.D.; Alexandra Stein; Benjamin Zablocki, Ph.D. |
Valentino
Lower
Level |
|
Authoritarian Catholic
Groups
Mary Kochan
(Coordinator); Peter Vere, J.C.L., M.C.L. (More Catholic Than the
Pope: My Experience with Vatican II and Reactionary Movements); Mike
Garde (The Magnificat Meal Movement) |
Garbo
Lower
Level |
|
Problem Solving Techniques for Ex-Members
and Families
Sandy Andron,
Ed.D. |
Fitzgerald
Lower
Level |
|
9:00
- 12:00 |
Evening Social with cash bar |
Lombard
Lobby
Level |
|
Saturday
|
|
9:00
- 10:30
|
Guru Traps in Psychotherapy
Helen W.
Coale, L.C.S.W., L.M.F.T. |
Lombard II
Lobby
Level |
|
Child Abuse and
the Jehovah's Witnesses: Is it Any Worse than in Mainstream
Religions?
William Bowen;
Kimberlee Norris, Esq.; Discussant: Steve K. D. Eichel, Ph.D. |
Bogart
Lower
Level |
|
10:30
- 11:00 |
Break/Refreshments |
Foyer
Lower
Level |
|
11:00
– 12:30 |
Spanish Research Update
Carmen Almendros; Jose
Antonio Carrobles, Ph.D.; Josep Jansa, M.D. |
Lombard II
Lobby
Level |
|
Brainwashing as a
Legal Defense
Steve K. D.
Eichel, Ph.D.; Paul Martin, Ph.D.; Discussants: Phil Elberg, Esq.;
Peter Georgiades, Esq.; Alan Scheflin, J.D., LL.M. |
Bogart
Lower
Level |
|
11:00
– 11:45 |
The Potential for
Abuse in the Guru-Disciple Relationship
Mary Garden;
Discussant: William Goldberg, M.S.W |
Hepburn
Lower
Level |
|
11:45
– 12:30 |
Idealism in Cults
J. Anna
Looney, Ph.D. |
|
12:30
– 2:00 |
Lunch
[Meal is only for those who signed up
for the meal; see your name badge]
Luncheon Speaker 1:30 – 2:00: William
Goldberg, M.S.W.- 25+ Years Co-Leading an Ex-Member Support Group |
Gable
Lobby
Level |
|
2:00
– 3:30 |
Why Attorneys Don't Want to Accept
Cult-Related Litigation
Peter
Georgiades, Esq.; Discussant: Phil Elberg, Esq.; Alan Scheflin,
J.D., LL.M. |
Lombard II
Lobby
Level |
|
Searching for the
'Truth' about Cults and New Religious Movements
Miriam Williams Boeri,
Ph.D. ("Question Reality": Investigating the Cult I Lived in for
Fifteen Years); Lawrence Foster, Ph.D. (Living with Polygamy:
Thirty Years as a Non-Mormon
Investigating
Mormonism’s Most Controversial Practice) |
Bogart
Lower
Level |
|
Toward a New
Strategy and a New Paradigm for the So-Called Anti-Cult Movement
W. Dennis King;
Discussant: Phil Elberg, Esq |
Hepburn
Lower
Level |
|
3:30
– 4:00 |
Break/Refreshments |
Foyer
Lower
Level |
|
4:00-
5:30 |
An Eye on
Political Cults: Different Experiences, Converging Perspectives
Erika Van Meir, L.M.F.T., Coordinator; Rebecca Bruce, M.S.W., L.S.W.,
M.B.A. (My Personal Experience in NATLFED); Phyllis Shulman (My
Personal Experience in Social Therapy); Alexandra Stein, M.L.S. (Ideological
Justifications for the Control of Attachment Relationships in the
Organization, a Marxist-Leninist Cult);
Discussant: Janja Lalich, Ph.D. |
Lombard II
Lobby
Level |
|
4:00
– 4:45 |
Sifting the Wheat from the Tares: What Canon
Lawyers Look for When New Movements Arise
Peter Vere, J.C.L., M.C.L. |
Hepburn
Lower
Level |
|
4:45
– 5:30 |
Sexual Abuse of Children: A Legal
Perspective
Kimberlee
Norris, Attorney at Law |
|
5:00
– 6:00 |
Pre-Dinner Social
with cash bar |
Gable
Lobby
Level |
|
6:00
– 7:30 |
Dinner
[Meal is only for those who signed up
for the meal; see your name badge]
Dinner Speaker 7:00 – 7:30: Mike
Kropveld – A Comparison of North American and European Approaches
to Cult-Related Issues |
Gable
Lobby
Level |
|
6:00
– 7:30 |
Dinner Discussion for Families
Livia Bardin,
M.S.W.; Josep Jansa, M.D. |
Crawford Room
Lower
Level |
|
7:30
– 9:00 |
Therapeutic Fads, Fallacies, and Fictions:
Threats to the General Public
Scott
Lilienfeld, Ph.D.;
Discussant: Arthur Dole, Ph.D.
|
Lombard I & II
Lobby
Level |
|
9:00
– 12:00 |
Evening Social
with cash bar |
Gable
Lobby
Level |
