NEWS
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SURVIVORSHIP WORKSHOP
http://www.survivorship.org/workshops.htmlJULY WORKSHOP
Survivorship Workshop Saturday July 31, 2010
"Writing Ourselves Whole"
A writing workshop with Survivorship
SURVIVORSHIP WEBINARS
http://www.survivorship.org/webinars.htmlSaturday, July 24
"Self-injury, Flashbacks, and Flooding as Programmed responses, and How to Deal with Them."
Alison Miller, Ph.D.
Saturday, August 21
"How a Non-Artist Uses Art for Healing."
Flower aka Garden
September
TBA
Saturday,October 9
Elle Snow, MSW
"Ritual Abuse Survivors and Eating Disorders."
Saturday, November 13
Carol Ann Rowland, MSW
"Healing Trauma with Energy Psychology."
PAST WEBINARS
Survivorship members may listen to past Webinars in the members’ section. (For information on joining Survivorship, click here.)
Past Webinars include:
"Open Discussion on the Use of Prayer for Christian Survivors of Ritual Abuse."
Rev. Tom Ball
"Healthy Supportive Relationships – What They Are, How to Make One."
Kitty Downey
"Riding off into the Sunrise."
Celestial
“Art and Activism: What the Public Sees.”
Lynn Schirmer
“Hope, Healing and Help through Music and Advocacy.”
Mike Skinner
“Understanding Nazi Influence in Ritual Abuse.”
Alik of the OwlClan
“Sensory and Emotional Flashbacks.”
Jeannie Riseman
“The Intersection between Ritual Abuse and Physical Disability.”
Lara BSW
“Forgiving the Unforgivable: One Survivor’s Journey to Peace ”
Bonnie Bazill-Davis
“How Survivors Can Help Their Own Cases for Disability Application and Appeal.”
Pam Perskin Noblitt
“Empowerment and Managing the Effects of Programming.”
Randy Noblitt, Ph.D.
“Normal Guilt, Guilt Induced by Extreme Abuse, and Some Suggestions for Working with Guilt.”
Jeannie Riseman
NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
S.M.A.R.T.’s 2010 Annual Ritual Abuse, Secretive Organizations and Mind Control Conference
Email: smartnews@aol.com
Website: ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/
August 6 – 8, 2010
Windsor Locks, CT
Presenters and Topics:
Neil Brick: “Fighting the Spin: The Truth about Child Abuse Cases and The Move from Blame the Victim to Blame the Helper.”
Nick Bryant: “Lessons learned from Franklin.”
Carmen Yana Holiday: “Survivors of Extreme Abuse: The Awful Rowing Toward Social Emancipation.”
Lynn Schirmer: “Art and Activism: Finding Effective Ways to Tell.”
Mary Keats RN BA; “Hope after the Darkness.”
Wanda Karriker: “The Ritual Abuse Controversy: A Personal Perspective.”
Julaine: “Looking Back: Lessons from the Healing Journey.”
Healing from Ritual Abuse and Mind Control: Survivor
Trish Fotheringham Speaks Out
DVD Set of Interviews
www.MoreThanAnIdea.ca/id74.html
In these films, Ellen Lacter Ph.D. interviews Trish, a Canadian
survivor of ritual abuse and mind control. [An article by Trish
appeared in the Survivorship Journal, Vol. 15 No. 2.]
She describes how she successfully worked through her
programming and attained a cohesive whole sense of self,
explains mind control and how to overcome it, and openly
discusses all of what done to her without self-condemnation.
She also displays artwork illustrating her previously
dissociated personalities, her inner world, and her breaking
free of the bonds in which her abusers sought to trap her. The
DVD’s will inspire great hope and courage and provide
direction and guidance for the healing journey, not only to
survivors, but also to the people who help them, including
psychotherapists, clergy, and loved ones.
($18.00 plus $6.50 shipping for the three-DVD set)
The Franklin Scandal: Powerbrokers, Child Abuse and
Betrayal
by Nick Bryant
http://franklinscandal.com/index.html
This book is about a nationwide sex trafficking using Boys Town
as a source of young victims. Some of the victims that Bryant has
interviewed state that they were ritually abused. Nebraska
legislators exposed the ring in 1990, but a grand jury was
manipulated into declaring the allegations a hoax and indicting
witnesses for perjury. In one case, a girl who had been abused
since the age of 14 refused to recant her abuse and was sentenced
to 9-15 years in prison. The Senate committee’s lead investigator
was killed, along with his 9-year-old son, in an exploding plane,
and there were other suspicious deaths. All real inquiry stopped,
and the cover-up continued for almost 20 years. The book traces
the web of corruption within Nebraska and Washington DC and
shows how a major part of that cover-up was accomplished.
[Note: The author is donating 50% of the book’s proceeds to
organizations that assist abused children.]
On March 10, 2010 the 54th Conference by the Committee of the Status on Women at the United Nations hosted a panel entitled “Support and Change for Survivors of Egregious Trauma.” It was sponsored by Dr. Dana Raphael, Ph.D. and the Human Lactation Center, an NGO with UN Status.. Dr. Raphael who was a student of Margaret Meade and is a member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. This is the 6th year that she has offered a program at this conference featuring survivors and allies of persons who report RA/MC and other forms of extreme abuse.
Speakers and topics were:
Aurana Morgan, M. A.: "Recovery from Ritual Trauma"
Devana Petree, Ph.D. candidate: "Leaving and Recovering from Hare Krishna"
Brenda Rivera, "Recovery from RA/MC"
Dana Raphael, Ph.D.: "Advocacy for Extreme Abuse Survivors and Supportive Behaviors for Families of Survivors"
Eileen Schrader, M.S. Discussant