UK Recovery Workshop

· Did you grow up in a strict religion?

· Did you spend all or part of your childhood in a cult?

· Did you spend all or part of your childhood in an extremist authoritarian sect?

· Did you spend all or part of your childhood in a new religious movement?

· Did you spend all or part of your childhood in a new religion?

If you think that you might answer yes to any of the above questions then you may be interested in attending a workshop specifically designed for born/raised former members of extremist authoritarian sects, which are sometimes known as cults, sects, new religious movements or new religions. Alternatively your group may have been a non-religious group; perhaps it was a therapeutic, or political group.

The DialogCentre UK [www.dialogcentre.org.uk] in cooperation with Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College are running a one-day workshop on Saturday the 8th of May 2004. This workshop aims to help individuals deal with some of the difficulties that they might encounter after leaving such groups. It will aim to cover a number of topics including:

· Dependency issues
· Individual differences and resilience
· The grieving process
· Distortion of self; identity
· Boundaries
· Abuses of logic
· Decision making
· Social interaction
· The transition into another culture
· Post-group re-evaluation

If you would like to find out more information about this workshop then do get in touch by contacting Lois Kendall by post, e-mail or telephone and providing a name and postal address or telephone number where you can be contacted. This will be kept entirely confidential.


Lois Kendall
Tel: 07765 362628
E-mail: lkenda01@bcuc.ac.uk

Postal Address:
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College
Owen Harris Building
Queen Alexandria Road
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
England
HP11 2JZ