Survivorship Ritual Abuse and Child Abuse 2013 Conference - Survivors
Moving Forward
Two days of survivor and professional workshops, a safe room, great price,
good food, safe environment, a chance to mingle with others who share your
experience, join together in this unique opportunity to bring the movement
forward...
Survivorship
Survivorship is one of the oldest and most respected organizations
supporting survivors of extreme child abuse, including sadistic sexual abuse,
ritualistic abuse, mind control, and torture.
Survivorship provides resources, healing, and Survivorship community for
survivors; training and education for professionals who may serve survivors; and
support for survivors' partners and other allies. The organization functions as
a lifeline for survivors who may be isolated emotionally or geographically.
Through community outreach and training, Survivorship also raises awareness
about these difficult issues.
The purpose of the conference will be to help survivors of ritual abuse and
their allies. The conference will be for survivors, cosurvivors, helping
professionals and others interested in this topic.
This year our keynote speaker is Steve Frankel.
Steve Frankel is a Board Certified Clinical and Forensic Psychologist and
an Attorney at Law, who practices both professions in San Francisco’s East
Bay. A Clinical Prof. of Psychology at USC, he began recognizing childhood
trauma in his adult patient case-load in 1980 and has specialized in working
with that population ever since. He joined the Int’l. Society for the
Study of Trauma & Dissociation in the 1990s and was the consultant to the
Trauma Program at Del Amo Hospital from 1993 until 2001. He was President
of the ISSTD in 2002 and has been active in developing and teaching courses in
trauma treatment as well as publishing chapters in books and professional
journals in the trauma field.
His presentation is:
“Validation:
science is (finally!) catching up to what survivors and clinicians have known
for years.”
More Speakers:
Dr Ellen Lacter will be presenting:
Therapists Reporting Histories of
Ritual Abuse Trauma: Preliminary Results on Beneficial and Detrimental Treatment
Approaches
Highlights of the pilot findings of this ongoing study will be
presented, including: (a) responding to a client's first report or memory, (b)
making programming conscious, working with programmed triggers and suicidality,
and resolution of programming, (c) working with ongoing victimization, and (d)
the place of spirituality in therapy and healing.
Dr. Deborah Brenner-Liss will talk about "Trauma and Eating
Disorders."
Trauma happens to the body (as well, of course, as to mind and
spirit). The feelings that one ends up holding in one’s body, before
words, and/or beyond words, often affect how one feels in one’s body. The
affects and toxicity from the perpetrator’s “energy” as well their as
invasion(s) and intrusion(s) get lodged in the body. This talk looks at
the intersection between trauma and manifestations of eating disorder symptoms
as attempts to self-regulate in the face of overwhelming trauma, overwhelming
invasion, overwhelming violation of bodily boundaries. The talk looks to
address how recovery can occur, in the body-self, so as to lessen the need to
utilize eating disorder symptoms in the service of this self-regulation.
Melisa Noel – The Natural Reassociation Method: Launching the Recovery
Process for RA/MC/Torture Survivors and Their Allies. This workshop introduces
the principles, benefits and paradigm shifts offered by the Natural
Reassociation Method (NRM), a new approach to RA/MC recovery that capitalizes on
our innate healing capacities. NRM is transforming how survivors and support
persons view and experience recovery, while also improving results and
sustainability for many.
Arauna Morgan, MA will discuss
"Steps to getting Free and the Signs that you are there." The road to freedom
from the cult is long and arduous, but well worth the struggle. Through my own
experiences of getting free and through talking with other survivors who have
done the same, I find that there are similar stages that we all went through,
even though our personal experiences were quite different. One significant
barrier that stands out to me, for both therapists and survivors, is thinking
that cult contact has stopped when it has only gone to a different level. What I
present are the steps to recovery and what those stages look like to friends and
therapists and the external changes that happen when freedom is achieved. This
is geared for survivors and therapists.
Ani Rose Whalesman will present an in-depth look at a WHOLE-FIRST
approach for healing work. The WHOLE-FIRST approach assumes that the
relationship is where things happen, and equality exists. She will discuss Gifts
and Skills from Original Wholeness embraced in an Integral Relationship. In this
workshop, we’ll look at 20 plus skills involved in surviving severe trauma, This
presentation includes tools for support people to connect more deeply with
survivors.
Joyce Aubrey, MS. will discuss "Survivor Aftershock, Art &
Advocacy"
She will present a Power Point of personal paintings created during
my healing crisis of flashbacks to more than a decade of incest, gang rape, and
family trafficking. Her painted images will show challenges commonly faced by
survivors of extreme abuse. They will be a springboard for talking about
overcoming obstacles and embracing empowerment. This is meant to inspire
survivors of extremely traumatic sexual violence (and those who work with them)
that healing to a new normal is possible and worth the effort and to model the
strength available from working as a survivor advocate.
Sandra will speak about "What I Have Learned So Far." With caring and
believe it or not at times appropriate humour, the profound and subtle
influences of RA are highlighted. Steps to bring awareness to the impact of and
treatment methods for RA are offered.
Carmen Holiday will present “Connections.” She will connect some dots
between the occult, Nazis, and the CIA. A contextual understanding of what
happened to RA/MC survivors can be a critical factor in the defense
against detractors of personal histories and the RA/MC movement's integrity, and
can play a pivotal role in healing. Knowledge is power.
Dave
Staffen will talk about "'So We've Been Betrayed and Satanically
Ritually Abused by Those We Loved.....Now What Do We Do?" I intend
for my talk to help victims recontextualize what happened to them, so they
can look at their life and and their experiences in a different way. I am hoping
to convey hope, courage and a sense of purpose; that what happened was not an
accident. The feeling that when we are dealt lemons we open a lemonade
stand. I will discuss the various stages I went through in my experience
and how it transformed me from the person I was before discovering my
truth, to the person who today wants to help victims, create awareness of
Ritual Abuse and awareness of how Ritual Abuse causes Mental
Illness.
Sarah Jacqueline will speak about: Exposing Satanic Abuse and The Hope of
Healing. I will speak about my 15 year healing journey through memories of
satanic abuse. How I can now live as hope, peace, and happiness. I have come to
a freeing conclusion that it was an "illusion" that the satanists attempted to
program through me about suffering, pain, and hatred. I now know and feel I am
just love and anything other than this is illusion--this I speak
about.
Additional discussions :
Shipmates - Discussion for Partners and Supporters of Survivors
Survivor panel - “What does it look like to move forward as a survivor with
dissociation?”
Survivorship 2013 conference application for attendees:
Survivorship
Family Justice
Center
470 27th Street
Oakland, CA
94612 USA
Please wait for acknowledgment from Survivorship before submitting your
payment.
Survivorship reserves the right to limit attendance to protect the
safety and security of the conference participants.
Cost of conference:
Low income: $100 for both days/$50 for
one day
Regular participant: $175 for both days/$100 for one
day
Professional participant: $225 for both days/$125 for one day.
Executive Inn & Suite
Hotel rates are $109-$129 a night. Here is how
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In order to protect the health of conference attendees with environmental
illness, please do not wear fragranced products (including "natural" fragrances)
or clothes laundered in fragranced products to the Survivorship conference.
Thank you.
Our Conference
Co-sponsors include BAWAR, deJoly LaBrier, The North American Truth &
Reconciliation Coalition (NATRC), S.M.A.R.T., Christina Arguello, Licensed
Marriage and Family Therapist and the California Protective Parents Association.