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Abrupt and sometimes frightening personality changes may indicate involvement with radical, extremist or fundamental groups that use psychological techniques (often called brainwashing or mind control), to recruit and keep members. This article is for people who want to leave extremist political, religious, military or commercial organizations (e.g. multi-level marketing), or dysfunctional families - but their leaving is resisted by other members - often by emotional bonding, harassment, blackmail and threats. (Many organizations call their obsessions patriotism and try to criminalize alternate points of view.) Our exit coaching is for people who are involved - or whose friends or family are involved - in groups that use psychological coercion, programming or hypnosis to increase and maintain their membership. Exit coaching is also available for people leaving academic and military organizations, who must reorient to a less regulated and more competitive life. Many students with advanced degrees and many career military personnel often have problems orienting to the world of civilian life. The people most likely to prefer extremist organizations and cults are those who grew up in families typified by codependent behavior (e.g. addictions, obsessions, victims, criminal behavior, suicide, etc). Our exit coaching is for people who want to leave cult-like organizations ... but somehow cannot ... Abusive Trainers . Abusive Relationships . Spiritual Abuse
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I find that many people who are searching the philosophies and religions of the world are searching for a genuine experience of belonging or a genuine experience of being parented, or both. People in chaotic relationships might find such offers irresistible. |
Cult members often call each other brother or sister, and may refer to the leaders as Mother or Father. Cult leaders often discourage close connections to family and former friends, to avoid dealing with other points of view. Members may be encouraged to feel guilt if they even consider leaving their new family.
Psychological Operations . Soul Cult? . Parental Alienation
Brainwashing is a propaganda word. Cult brainwashing can be more accurately described as a combination of persuasion, propaganda, coercion, conditioning and restricted access to information. Many marketers, governments, schools and parents use similar, if more subtle, techniques.
Cult conditioning was once fought with deconditioning and deprogramming, which are now associated with illegal, coercive techniques used to counter brainwashing. These often-criminal methods included abduction, sleep deprivation, sensory overload, condemnation, isolation and physical confinement.
Although some ex-cult-members have said that these methods released them from invisible prisons, others sued the deprogrammers. Coercive deprogramming involves legal and psychological risks, and we do not provide, support nor recommend those methods.
An applied understanding of human relationship bonds offers far safer alternatives. Our exit counseling and coaching helps distressed and isolated adults build or rebuild healthier relationships.
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I asked you for help to leave an organization ... I was very pleased with your approach. You did not try to make me do or think anything, you helped me explore my choices and their consequences. You helped me a lot when you suggested that I ask some of my family and past friends to contribute their honest support. Singapore |
Cult-conditioning is likely to be both emotional and anti-intellectual. Activities often involve slogans (mantras) and rituals, and avoid rational analysis. Our exit coaching helps people evaluate and change emotionally charged relationships, while assisting them to evaluate factual information about the group they wish to leave.
Our exit coaching is for adults who want to change. It is gentle,
direct, intensive and time-limited. It emphasizes respectfully sharing
information, and it should not be rushed. We help people regain their
freedom of thought and action.
We offer exit coaching during office visits, by telephone and
Skype.
The time often depends on a person's motivation to enter or return to the
community and culture in which he or she wants to live. If people dislike
their previous communities and cultures, we may help them research which
healthy communities they may enjoy joining.
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When we help people heal relationships, we respect each person's values, and honor each person's wisdom. We don't try to make people do anything. We find that people make intelligent choices when they know what is possible and potential consequences and they are not entangled in limiting beliefs. |
If a cult controls their members finances and possessions, then legal expertise may be required. If a group was pro-active about unprotected sex, then the consequences of sexually transmitted diseases (STDS) and/or unwanted pregnancies and/or abortions may complicate these issues.
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We do not attempt to persuade people
to leave cults or cult-like associations. |
Our exit coaching is for motivated people who want to end entanglement
with a specific group and their leaders, with a group's beliefs and with
a group's activities. We help people who want to enjoy emotional freedom.
Our exit coaching is for people who want to choose their own lives.
Plagiarism is theft. Copyright © Martyn Carruthers 2002-2011 All rights reserved.
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