"After the Cult": Recovery Workshop for
Former Group Members
Friday 3:00 p.m., July
31, 2009 to Sunday 3:00
p.m., August 2, 2009
Franciscan
Retreat/Conference Center,
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Online Registration
Topics Covered (Agenda):
·
The nature of
psychological manipulation
and abuse
·
Conditions of
thought reform programs
·
General
recovery needs of former
members
·
Coping with
depression and guilt
·
Effects of
hypnosis and trance
techniques
·
Critical
thinking
·
Relationships
and intimacy
·
Post-traumatic
stress syndrome
·
Boundaries:
re-establishing trust
·
Coping with
feelings of anger
·
Coping with
anxiety
·
Decision-making
·
Reestablishing
trust in yourself and others
·
Dependency
issues
·
The grieving
process
·
Reintegration/identity
issues
·
Spiritual and
philosophical concerns
·
Special track
for those born into or
raised in a cultic group
Fees:
Register by 4/1/09 - Double ($200); Single ($275)
Register by 6/1/09 - Double
($220); Single ($295)
Register after 6/1/09 -
Double ($240); Single ($325)
Fees include meals (Friday dinner through Sunday lunch) and
Friday and Saturday
accommodations.
Note:
Check-in time is 3:00 p.m.
Our first session begins at
4:00 this year!
Fees include meals
(Friday dinner through Sunday lunch)
and Friday and Saturday
accommodations.
Note:
Check-in time is 3:00 p.m. on
Friday. Our first
session begins at 4:00 this year!
The workshop ends at 3:00 p.m. on
Sunday.
Correspondence To: ICSA,
P.O. Box 2265, Bonita
Springs, FL 34133.
239-514-3081.
mail@icsamail.com
Location:
Franciscan Retreat
Center
7740 Deer Hill Grove
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
Phone:
719-955-7025
Fax: 719-260-8044
Please note that the Franciscan Retreat
Center is a Catholic retreat center and
there are religious icons and pictures
on site.
Directions:
From the
Colorado Springs Airport to the
Franciscan Center:
Leave the airport
on Drennan Road going west
Turn
right on Powers Blvd.
Turn left
on Fountain Blvd.
Stay on
Fountain Blvd. which merges with
I-25 going North (towards Denver)
Take Exit 149 (Woodmen Road) and
turn left under I-25. Stay in the
far right lane.
Turn right on
Woodmen Road
Travel down Woodmen
Road for about 3.5 miles and you'll
see Mt. St. Francis on your left.
Enter the grounds and follow the
directional signs to the Franciscan
Center.
From the
Denver Airport to the Franciscan Center:
Take Pena Blvd. to
I-70 West
Take 225 South to I-25
Take I-25 South to Exit 149 (Woodmen
Road)
Exit to your right staying
in the far right lane
Turn right
again on Woodmen Road
Travel down
Woodmen Road for about 3.5 miles and
you'll see Mt. St. Francis on your
left.
Enter the grounds and
follow the directional signs to the
Franciscan Center.
Transportation:
Colorado Springs
Shuttle
runs shuttles
from Denver and Colorado Springs
airports.
Allendac
Limousine Service
also runs
shuttles from Denver and
Colorado Springs airports.
Denver
International Airport
Information
Shuttles, rental cars,
taxis
Online Registration
Workshop Facilitators
Facilitators. Front: Carol
Giambalvo, Leona Furnari,
Nancy Miquelon, Joyce
Martella, Rosanne Henry.
Rear: Hal Mansfield, Michael
Martella
Leona Furnari, M.S.W.
is a licensed clinical
social worker in Boulder
Colorado. She is a
psychotherapist specializing
in recovery from trauma,
including recovery from
abusive groups and
relationships. Ms. Furnari
is a former member of an
Eastern/New Age group, and
it was that experience that
led to her commitment to
help others recover from
abusive groups. She has been
a regular
facilitator/presenter at
ICSA's Recovery Workshops in
Estes Park, CO for the last
four years. She also works
as a school social worker at
the middle school level, and
facilitates support groups
for adolescents dealing with
grief, family change and
peer relationships.
Carol Giambalvo
is an ex-cult member who has
been a Thought Reform
Consultant since 1984 and a
cofounder of reFOCUS, a
national support network for
former cult members. She is
on ICSA’s Board of
Directors, Director of
ICSA’s Recovery Programs,
and is responsible for its
Project Outreach. Author of
Exit Counseling: A Family
Intervention, co-editor
of The Boston Movement:
Critical Perspectives on the
International Churches of
Christ, and co-author of
“Ethical Standards for
Thought Reform Consultants,”
Ms. Giambalvo has written
and lectured extensively on
cult-related topics. (affcarol@worldnet.att.net)
Rosanne Henry, M.A., L.P.C.,
a member of ICSA's Board
of Directors, is a
psychotherapist practicing
in Littleton, Colorado. For
the last fifteen years she
has been helping those
harmed by cults through the
original CAN and ICSA. Her
private practice specializes
in the treatment of cult
survivors and their
families. She is a former
member of Kashi Ranch. (rosanne@cultrecover.com)
Hal Mansfield, M.A., is Director
of the Rocky Mountain
Resource Center, with 23
years experience
investigating/researching
destructive groups. He has
conducted numerous
workshops/trainings for
agencies interested in hate
groups and destructive
cults. The center has the
largest library in the Rocky
Mountain area on hate groups
and destructive cults and
networks with a large number
of other agencies looking at
hate groups and bias crime.
Mr. Mansfield is retired
from the United States Air
Force, where he was a
director of operations of
counter narcotics, was a
military advisor to the
country of Slovenia, and
spent time in over 30
countries. (intruder@webaccess.net)
http://lamar.colostate.edu/~ucm/RMRC/rmrc1.htm
Joyce Martella, M.A.,
is the daughter of a leader
of a pseudo-Christian cultic
group, ISOT, in Northern
California. Born and raised
in this group, she left
after 25 years. She has
been cut off from her
siblings and mother for over
15 years. She is currently
working in a Batterer's
Intervention Program and
pursuing a doctorate in
Depth Psychology.
Michael Martella, Ph.D.,
a licensed family therapist,
was raised in a Bible-based
cult for 20 years, leaving
in 1980. He is a licensed
counselor and an expert in
domestic violence treatment
in San Diego, California.
Over the last three years,
he has conducted seven “Cult
Survivor Workshops” for
ex-cult members, and he is
currently writing his
doctoral dissertation on
“Cult Wounds and Cult
Healing.”
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