High Demand Groups: Helping Former Members and Families November 2-3, 2013

Overview ICSA will conduct a conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico November 2-3, 2013. This conference will focus on the helping needs of former group members and families concerned about a loved one in a high-demand or cultic group or relationship. The conference will take place at La Fonda on the Plaza, one of Santa Fe's finest hotels, located in the heart of the old city. Images of Santa Fe.

La Fonda Hotel Santa Fe has been chosen to give ICSA's western supporters an opportunity to attend a conference closer to home. Speakers include some of the cultic studies field's most experienced mental health professionals, as well as other experts. Among the mental health professionals attending will be contributors to a book project that will present the clinical state of the art in this field. Attend this conference if you are interested in how psychologically manipulative and demanding groups can hurt people and what can be done to help those who are harmed. The agenda will address the needs of those seeking help and those who want to help others. Because Santa Fe is a "daytime" city, we have scheduled two-hour lunch breaks so that attendees can enjoy walking around old Santa Fe, where there are numerous art galleries, museums, and quaint shops, as well as stunning southwest architecture. The hotel will permit the special conference rate three days pre- and post-conference for those who wish to spend time touring Santa Fe and its environs. Please tell others about this conference. We hope you join us!

Agenda Santa Fe November 2-3, 2013 Time

Room

Title (Speakers)

There will be a former member orientation, led by Carol Giambalvo, on Friday, November 1 st from 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.

Saturday, November 2, 2013 8:45 – 9:00

Welcome (Steve K. D. Eichel, PhD, ABPP) Helping Families Strategically Deal with the Cultic Situation: Case Studies and Family Therapy (William Goldberg, LCSW, PsyA) Santa Fe

9:00 – 10:30

Discussion (Moderator: Steve Eichel, PhD, ABPP) Shattered Faith Recovery (Wendy and Doug Duncan) New Mexico

10:30– 11:00

Spiritual/religious Issues in Post-Cult Recovery: A Social Work Perspective (Piotr T. Nowakowsi, PhD) Break

Santa Fe 11:00 – 12:30

Conflict Resolution Models (Patricia Millar, PhD)

Discussion for People with Loved Ones in Groups (Moderator, Steve K. D. Eichel, PhD, ABPP) Approaches to Exit Counseling (Carol Giambalvo)

New Mexico

Residential Treatment Modality for Cult Trauma Survivors (Judy Pardon, MA; Robert Pardon, MDiv, MTh) Discussion (Moderator: Doni Whitsett, PhD, LCSW)

12:30 – 2:30

Break An Approach to a Creative Profession Through the Lens of Trauma(Narangkar Glover, MFA) Santa Fe

2:30 – 4:00

"Where did you grow up?" how some SGAs creatively avoid or address a controversial past after leaving their communities of origin (Gina Catena, MS)

Recovery Workshops: The Colorado Model (Carol Giambalvo & Nancy Miquelon, LPC, LPCC) New Mexico

Helping First Generation Parents and Second Generation Children Heal the Impact of Cult Harm (Lorna Goldberg, LCSW, PsyA) Discussion (Moderator: Rosanne Henry, MA, LPC)

4:00 – 4:30

Break Support Groups: Two Approaches

4:30 – 6:00

Santa Fe

Lorna Goldberg, LCSW, PsyA.; William Goldberg, LCSW, PsyA

Patrick Knapp, MA

4:30 6:00

New Mexico

Discussion: (Moderator: Heather Svoboda, MA) Discussion: Spiritual Issues in Recovery (Moderator: Gillie Jenkinson, MA; Discussants: Wendy & Doug Duncan; Piotr T. Nowakowski, PhD; Robert Pardon, MDiv, MTh)

6:00 – 7:30

Break

7:30 – 10:00

Social

Sunday, November 3, 2013

9:0010:30

New Mexico

Cult and Counterculture: Why Hippies Became Hare Krishnas (Steven Gelberg)

Santa Fe

Recovery Needs of Former Members (Moderator, TBD; Discussants: Carol Giambalvo; Leona Furnari, MSW; Rosanne Henry, MA, LPC; Nancy Miquelon, LPC, LPCC)

10:30 – 11:00 11:00 – 12:30

Break New Mexico Santa Fe

12:30 – 2:30 2:30 – 3:45

Child of the Cult (Nori Muster, MS) Victims of Psychics (Vanessa Weber, MSW) Help! My New Client Just Left a Cult! Where do I Start? A Wellspring Based Model for Cult Recovery (Lois Svoboda, MD, LMFT) Break

New Mexico

3:45 – 4:00

When Enchantment Fails: A Brief History of Cult Activity in New Mexico (Joseph Szimhart) Closing Words (Steve K. D. Eichel, PhD, ABPP)

Speakers This list includes people who will speak at a special pre-conference seminar for mental health professionals, which is invitation only in order to ensure that the group is small enough to have productive peer discussions.

Donna Adams-Weiss, PhD, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and Executive Director of Miriam’s Villa, an intensive outpatient treatment program for former members of cults, highdemand groups, and relationships in Montgomery, Alabama. Dr. Adams-Weiss is a former Clinical Director of the Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center in Albany, Ohio, a residential rehabilitation center for ex-cult members. She has worked in a counseling capacity with former cult members for about 20 years. She was formerly employed at Auburn University in the Psychology Department. While an adjunct instructor at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio in the Counseling program, Dr. Adams-Weiss taught a class on cults and cult treatment and served as a media consultant for the university regarding cult-related issues. She has been interviewed by numerous newspapers and radio and TV stations concerning cults. She is currently working on articles for publication in professional journals and is a contributing author of a chapter in a textbook for mental health professionals, entitled Values and Ethics in Counseling: Real-Life Ethical Decision Making. Ron Burks, PhD, holds an M. Div. and an M.A. in counseling from Asbury Theological Seminary and a Ph. D. in Counselor Education from Ohio University. He worked for many years at Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center in Albany, OH. He and his wife Vicki wrote, Damaged Disciples: Casualties of Authoritarian Churches and the Shepherding Movement, published by Zondervan. He and Vicki now live near Tallahassee Florida where both are licensed mental health counselors. Ron now serves as President of the Board of Directors of Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center. Dianne Casoni, PhD Full Professor, School of Criminology, University of Montreal. Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Université du Québec a Montréal. Psychologist. Psychoanalyst, member of the Canadian Psychoanalytical Society and the International Psychoanalytic Association. Dr. Casoni is the author of over 70 articles and book chapters on psychology and the law, sexual abuse of children, treatment of victims, wife assault, and the psychodynamic understanding of cults. She has just published a book on the psychoanalytical understanding of the criminal mind and edited a book on terrorism, both in French, co-authored and co-edited with Louis Brunet.

Gina Catena, M.S., was raised in the Transcendental Meditation group, as an early “Child of the Age of Enlightenment.” She married and was a parent in the group until the age of 30. After twenty-two years of childhood and young adulthood enmeshed in the TM culture, she left the group with three children, obtained an education and career while integrating into mainstream culture. She lives with ongoing cult influence through three generations of her immediate family. Ms. Catena contributed to the anthology, Children of Cults: On Healing Spiritual Abuse, edited by Nori Muster. Ms. Catena is also working on several projects about family influence in cults. She obtained a Masters of

Science from the University of California at San Francisco, a BA in Art History, and a BS in Nursing, with a minor in psychology. She is now a Certified Nurse-Midwife and Nurse Practitioner. Mary Jo Cysewski, MA, LMFT, is a marriage and family therapist in private practice in Los Angeles, where she provides individual and family therapy. Ms. Cysewski specializes in cult-related cases for former cult members and for families who have a loved one who is involved in a cult. Consultation and mediation are also available. Please feel free to call to discuss your concerns and arrange for an initial, no fee, consultation.

Doug Duncan, MS, LPC, is a professional counselor licensed in the state of Texas and practicing in Dallas. His main focus in his counseling practice is on people who are attempting to recover from experiences with spiritually abusive cults, churches, and other organizations. As a recovering former member of an aberrational group, Doug is sensitive to the particular concerns of people struggling to overcome the legacy of spiritual abuse. Also, along with his wife, Wendy, he facilitates a support group in Dallas for former members of cults and abusive groups. Lately, Doug has focused on helping people improve upon their critical thinking skills as a vital piece of their recovery from groups which practice thought reform. Wendy Duncan, MA, LBSW, has a Master’s Degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and is a licensed social worker in the state of Texas. She has spent most of her career in the public mental health field, and she is the author of I Can’t Hear God Anymore: Life in a Dallas Cult.Along with her husband, Doug, she facilitates a support group for former members of cults and abusive groups. Wendy is dedicated to helping people who have been in spiritually abusive churches and Bible-based cults explore, once they have progressed in their recovery to a point where they are ready, how they might reconnect with God in a healthy way as an aspect of their spiritual healing. Steve K. D. Eichel, PhD, ABPP, ICSA President, is PastPresident of the American Academy of Counseling Psychology and the Greater Philadelphia Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He is a licensed and Board-certified counseling psychologist whose involvement in cultic studies began with a participantobservation study of Unification Church training in their Eastern seminary (in Barrytown, NY) in the spring of 1975. His doctoral dissertation to date remains the only intensive, quantified observation of a deprogramming. He was honored with AFF's 1990 John G. Clark Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Cultic Studies for this study, which was published as a special issue of the Cultic Studies Journal and has been translated into several foreign languages. In 1983, along with Dr. Linda Dubrow-Marshall and clinical social worker Roberta Eisenberg, Dr. Eichel founded the Re-Entry Therapy, Information & Referral Network (RETIRN), one of the field's oldest continuing private providers of psychological services to families and individuals harmed by cultic practices. RETIRN currently has offices in Newark, DE,

Lansdowne, PA and Preston, England (U.K.). In addition to his psychology practice and his involvement with ICSA, Dr. Eichel is active in a range of professional associations. He has co-authored several articles and book reviews on cult-related topics for the CSJ/CSR. Leona Furnari, MSW, LCSW, is a psychotherapist in Boulder, CO, 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 formermember workshops and cult-education conferences since 1998. She has worked in child protection, community mental health, and as a school social worker. She is an EMDR International Association certified therapist and consultant.

Steven Gelberg, MA, while a member from 1970-1987, served as the Krishna Movement's principal liaison to the international academic community (e.g., edited Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna: Five Distinguished Scholars on the Krishna Movement in the West, Grove Press, 1983), and its Director for Interreligious Affairs. He is author of a number of scholarly articles on ISKCON (and related historical, social-scientific, and cultic issues) published in various academic books and journals. He subsequently earned a Masters degree (comparative religion) from Harvard Divinity School in 1990. He currently lives with his wife near San Francisco, where he is an accomplished fine art photographer, and working on various writing projects. His most recent work is India in a Mind's Eye: Travels and Ruminations of an Ambivalent Pilgrim. Carol Giambalvo is a former cult member who has retired as a Thought Reform Consultant. She is 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 ofThe Boston Movement: Critical Perspectives on the International Churches of Christ, and co-author of “Ethical Standards for Thought Reform Consultants,” and co-author (with Rosanne Henry, MA, LPC) of “The Colorado Model” in ICSA Today, 1(1), 2010. Ms. Giambalvo has written and lectured extensively on cult-related topics. In 2008 and 2009 Ms. Giambalvo received ICSA's Margaret T. Singer Award. Narangkar Glover was born in Española, New Mexico to members of the high demand group 3HO Sikh Dharma. Because of this group, she and her siblings spent their entire childhood away from their parents at a boarding school called Guru Nanak Fifth Centenary School located in Uttarakhand, India. She left the group at age nineteen and began studying art. Glover’s work revolves around her formative years in this group – the chaos, the hostility, and the trauma – which have driven her to be interested in what it is about early life experiences that can fundamentally influence who we are, how we navigate our worlds, and why we are driven to create work from it. Glover received a Bachelor in Fine Arts from The California

College of Arts and Crafts in 1999, and a Masters in Fine Arts from The University of California at Berkeley in 2011. She has exhibited her work in New York, Michigan, Los Angeles and all over the San Francisco Bay Area. She’s the recipient of the prestigious Joan Mitchell MFA Award in Painting and Sculpture, the Headlands Center for the Arts Graduate Fellowship, and The Phelan-Murphy-Cadogan prize. She has been published in New American Paintings 93 (MFA Annual) and 91 (Pacific Coast Edition), and is currently represented by Andrea Schwartz Gallery in San Francisco. Glover lives and works in Oakland, California. Lorna Goldberg, LCSW, PsyA, Board member and past president of ICSA, is a psychoanalyst in private practice and Dean of Faculty at the Institute of Psychoanalytic Studies. In 1976, she and her husband, William Goldberg, began facilitating a support group for former cult members that continues to meet on a monthly basis in their home in Englewood, New Jersey. In1989, Lorna and Bill received the Hall of Fame Award from the authentic Cult Awareness Network and, in 1999; they received the Leo J. Ryan Award from the Leo J. Ryan Foundation. In 2009, she received the Margaret T. Singer Award from ICSA. Lorna joined ICSA’s Board of Directors in November 2003. Along with Rosanne Henry, she co-chaired ICSA’s Mental Health Committee until her term as President of ICSA from 2008 to 2012. Lorna has published numerous articles about her therapeutic work with former cult members in professional journals, most recently: Goldberg, L. (2012). Influence of a Charismatic Antisocial Cult Leader: Psychotherapy With an Ex-Cultist Prosecuted for Criminal Behavior. International Journal of Cultic Studies, Vol. 2, 15-24. Goldberg, L. (2011). Diana, Leaving the Cult: Play Therapy in Childhood and Talk Therapy in Adolescence. International Journal of Cultic Studies, (Vol.2), 33-43. She also wrote a chapter on guidelines for therapists in the book, Recovery from Cults, edited by Michael Langone. Lorna has co-written with Bill Goldberg, a chapter on psychotherapy with targeted parents in the book, Working with Alienated Children and Families (2012), edited by Amy J.L. Baker & S. Richard Sauber. William Goldberg, LCSW, PsyA, is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst with over forty years experience working with former cult members. He and his wife, Lorna, co-lead a support group for former cult members, This group has been meeting for over thirty-five years, and is the oldest group of its kind in the world. In 2007 Bill retired from the Rockland County, NY Department of Mental Health, where he directed several programs and clinics. He is presently an adjunct professor in the social work and social science departments of Dominican College and he is on the faculty of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies. Bill is a frequent speaker at ICSA conferences, and he and Lorna have been the recipients of the Authentic CAN Hall of Fame Award, and the Leo J. Ryan Award. In 2010, Bill was the recipient of ICSA's Lifetime Achievement Award. Rosanne Henry, MA, LPC, is a psychotherapist practicing in Littleton, Colorado. For the past twenty years she has been active in the counter cult movement working closely with the former Cult Awareness Network and ICSA. She presently sits on the board of ICSA and heads the Mental Health Committee. She has facilitated ICSA’s Recovery workshops for twenty years. Rosanne’s private practice specializes in the treatment of cult survivors and their families. She is a former member of

Kashi Ranch. Gillie Jenkinson, MA is a Director of Hope Valley Counselling Limited and specialises in offering counselling and psychotherapy to those who have left cults or coercive relationships/groups and those who have been abused. Ms. Jenkinson is a trained counsellor and psychotherapist with an Advanced Diploma in Pastoral Counselling and an MA in Gestalt Psychotherapy. She is accredited and registered with the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) and is a member of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP). She served two internships at Wellspring Retreat Centre in Ohio. She has many years experience working with survivors of rape, sexual abuse, and cults, as well as with clients with other issues. She is a trained Supervisor (Diploma in Supervision). Ms. Jenkinson runs an ex-member support and education group in London and regularly speaks and trains on recovery issues. Ms. Jenkinson has presented her research, “What helps Ex-cult members recover from an abusive cult experience," at the BACP Research conference (2006) and ICSA Conferences in Madrid (2005) and Denver (2006); also a number of papers at ICSA conferences on cult pseudo-personality. She presented at ICSA New York Conference (2010) and Barcelona (2011) with Sue Parker Hall on “Anger, Rage and Cults.” She has two papers published inCultic Studies Review; “An Investigation into Cult Pseudo-Personality: What Is It and How Does It Form?” (2008) and “Cult Pseudo-Creativity vs. Creativity in Recovery” (2010). She has co-authored a chapter entitled “Pathological Spirituality” with Dr. Nicola Crowley for a medical text book entitledSpirituality and Psychiatry, published by RCPsych Publications in UK - 2009. She is the Mental Health Editor for ICSA Today. Ms. Jenkinson began work on a PhD at the University of Nottingham, England, in Fall of 2012. Her current proposal is entitled: "What helps former cult members recover from an abusive cult experience? Developing an empirically supported treatment." Michael D. Langone, PhD, a counseling psychologist, received a doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1979. Since 1981 he has been Executive Director of International Cultic Studies Association (ICSA), a tax-exempt research and educational organization concerned about psychological manipulation and cultic groups. Dr. Langone has been consulted by several hundred former cult members and/or their families. He was the founder editor of Cultic Studies Journal (CSJ), the editor of CSJ’s successor, Cultic Studies Review, and editor of Recovery from Cults: Help for Victims of Psychological and Spiritual Abuse (an alternate of the Behavioral Science Book Service). He is co-author of Cults: What Parents Should Know and Satanism and Occult-Related Violence: What You Should Know. Currently, Dr. Langone is ICSA Today’s Editor-in-Chief. He has been the chief designer and coordinator of ICSA’s international conferences, which in recent years have taken place in Barcelona, New York, Rome, Philadelphia, Geneva, Denver, Brussels, Atlanta, and Madrid. In 1995, he was honored as the Albert V. Danielsen visiting Scholar at Boston University. He has authored numerous articles in professional journals and books, including Psychiatric Annals, Business and Society Review, Sette e Religioni (an Italian periodical), Grupos Totalitarios y Sectarismo: Ponencias del II Congreso Internacional (the proceedings of an international congress on cults in Barcelona, Spain), Innovations in Clinical Practice: A Sourcebook, Handbook of Psychiatric Consultation with Children and Youth, Psychiatric News, and all of ICSA’s periodicals. Dr. Langone has spoken widely to dozens of lay and professional groups, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Pacific Division, American Group Psychotherapy Association, American Psychological Association, the Carrier

Foundation, various university audiences, and numerous radio and television stations, including the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour and ABC 20/20. Patricia Millar, PhD, ACC, is devoted to reducing the negative effects of trauma, increasing resilience, building capacity, and facilitating positive change toward outcomes of self-awareness, empowerment, competency, and improved social relationships. She helps clients to experience self-esteem, wellbeing, happiness, meaning, and life satisfaction as they develop a better understanding of their personal strengths and more confidently navigate important relationships and new social contexts. Dr. Millar is an advocate of trauma-informed care. She coaches survivors of domestic violence, formerly incarcerated women, and other people who want to move on from relational dynamics and social systems characterized by fear, control, coercion, abuse, and violence. Dr. Millar helps people to identify patterns that once helped them to survive but no longer serve them, and designs skill-building experiments that clients use to develop and maintain healthy new behaviors. As a survivor herself, with a PhD in human development, Dr. Millar is trained in developmental psychology, post-traumatic stress, mind-body awareness, emotional self-regulation, strengths-based change, and diverse methods for initiating and sustaining positive development across the lifespan. Because of her extensive background in organization design and development—and her specialized knowledge of high-demand, “cultic” group dynamics—Dr. Millar’s coaching approach is unique. She connects “the core to the context” by helping people to understand the social systems in which they are embedded and how these support or impede achievement of their developmental goals. Nancy Miquelon , LPC, LPCC, is a Clinical Mental Health Counselor specializing in trauma recovery in adults and children. She currently practices in Dulce, New Mexico, home of the Jicarilla Apache Nation, and has been in practice for 20 years. Nancy is a co-founder, and serves on the board, of reFOCUS, a cult survivor support network. She is a regular facilitator at ICSA's Recovery Workshop. In 2009 Nancy received ICSA's Margaret T. Singer award. Nancy was a member of the Emissaries of Divine Light.

Nori Muster, MS, is the author of Betrayal of the Spirit: My Life Behind the Headlines of the Hare Krishna Movement (University of Illinois Press, 1997), Cult Survivors Handbook: Seven Paths to an Authentic Life (2000), and Child of the Cult (2010). She was an ISKCON member from 1978 – 1988, then earned her master's degree at Western Oregon University in 1992 doing art therapy with juvenile delinquents. She is currently an adjunct professor at Mesa Community College, in Mesa, Arizona.

Piotr T. Nowakowski, PhD, born in 1974, doctor of pedagogy; Assistant Professor at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin – Off-Campus Faculty of Social Sciences in Stalowa Wola (Poland). Areas of scientific activity: philosophy of education, aretology, pedagogy of mass media, pedagogy of resocialization, social work; author of headings in the Universal Encyclopedia of Philosophy (published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Tomasza z Akwinu). Books include: Sekty – co każdy powinien wiedzieć (1999), in English: Sects – What One Should Know; Sekty – oblicza werbunku (2001), in English: Sects – Faces of Recruitment; Fast food dla mózgu, czyli telewizja i okolice (2002), in English: Fast Food for Mind, i.e., television and surroundings; Modele człowieka propagowane w czasopismach młodzieżowych. Analiza antropologiczno-etyczna (2004), in English: Models of Man Propagated in Selected Magazines for Young People. An Anthropological and Ethical Analysis; The Phenomenon of Cults from a Scientific Perspective (editor, 2007); Higher Education in Nigeria: Selected Aspects (editor, 2010); Wokół pigułki gwałtu (editor, 2011), in English:Talking about Date Rape Drugs. Dr. Nowakowski is ICSA Today’s News Correspondent for Eastern Europe. Judy Pardon, M.Ed., has been a teacher and a counselor. Since 1992 she has been Associate Director of the New England Institute of Religious Research and MeadowHaven, where she has worked with former cult members, including some who have experienced profound trauma. She has also spoken widely on the subject and conducted training programs for human service personnel.

Robert Pardon, M.Div., Th.M., is the Executive Director of the New England Institute of Religious Research and MeadowHaven. During the past five years he has specialized in Bible-based communal groups. Much of his work involves counseling, support groups, working with those born and/or raised in groups, and helping former members rebuild their lives. To facilitate the recovery process MeadowHaven, a long term rehabilitation facility was opened in 2002. It can accommodate individuals or families who require long term (up to a year) care to recover from trauma and cult abuse. Gregory Sammons, MEd, PC, resides in Albany, Ohio with his wife Angelina. Greg began working at Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center in March of 2001. He has filled nearly every role at the small residential agency over the past ten years. After his beginnings as the Clinical Residence Manager, Greg was inspired to go back to graduate school to complete his Master in Counseling Education. Greg’s degree covers the area of Clinical and Rehab Counseling. His areas of competence include Abusive Group/Relationship Counseling, Mental Health Counseling, Personal and Social Counseling, Addictions Counseling, and Diagnosis and Treatment. Greg has presented various topics at highly regarded conferences including those sponsored by the American Counseling Association, Ohio Counseling Association, and Ohio Rehabilitation Association. Greg currently provides all clinical counseling and assessment at Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center in Albany, Ohio.

Heather Svoboda, MA LP, is a psychologist licensed and practicing in Minnesota. She was trained in both psychology and marriage and family therapy, with specialties in Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, early childhood mental health, and child centered, experiential play therapy. She was involved in a small personality cult in the 1980s, and after her exit counseling became active in the local and national cult awareness and recovery network. She was president of Free Minds the Minnesota family and former member support group; worked at Unbound (cult recovery house) while in college and afterwards, assisted in organizing and locally co-chairing the 1992 National Cult Awareness conference, and has made many public presentations to classrooms, the media, and at conferences about her own experiences and common needs of former members. Lois Svoboda, MD, LMFT, is a former family medicine physician who has been trained in Marriage & Family Therapy and worked as a medical family therapist for 23 years in Wichita Kansas. Since retiring to Fremont, Nebraska in 2004, she opened a counseling practice and is working with people who have exited cults. She has planned and been responsible for a full day workshop for former cult members in Omaha, Nebraska., as well as a one day symposium for medical, law enforcement, clergy, mental health professionals, and the public on Cults and Gangs in Omaha in 2007. She also worked at Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center in Ohio during Dr. Paul Martin's final illness, together with Patricia Cartledge. Dr. Svoboda is ICSA Today’s Family Editor. Joseph Szimhart began research into cultic influence in 1980, after ending his two-year devotion to a New Age sect called Church Universal and Triumphant. He began to work professionally as an intervention specialist and exit counselor in 1986 on an international scale. From 1985 through 1992, he was chairman of an interdenominational, cult information organization in New Mexico. Since 1998 he has worked in the crisis department of a psychiatric emergency hospital in Pennsylvania. He continues to assist families with interventions and former members in recovery, including consultations via phone and Internet. He maintains a cult informational website, lectures, consults for the media, and has published articles, book reviews, and papers related to the cult problem. His first novel, Mushroom Satori: The Cult Diary, was released in 2013 through Aperture Press. Madeleine L Tobias, MS RN CS, was a psychotherapist at the Vet Center in White River Junction, VT since 1994. She was the Clinical Coordinator and Military Sexual Trauma Specialist there treating both men and women veterans for combat and sexual trauma. She has been trained and utilizes two of the recommended Veterans Administration and Department of Defense Clinical Practice Guidelines for the treatment of PTSD, EMDR and Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT). She is currently working on adapting CPT for the treatment of ex-members of cults. Prior to moving to northern New England in 1993, Madeleine was in private practice as a psychotherapist in central CT since 1979. She is the co-author of Captive Hearts/Captive Minds and Take Back Your Life. She has presented and published articles on recovery issues for both ex-members of cults and treatment issues for veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She has served as the mental health

consultant on a variety of exit counseling teams from 1989- 1994. Mady retired in May and is now living in Virginia, where she will be resuming her private practice and consultation. An ex-member of a psychotherapy cult, she has been dedicated to improving the lives of those traumatized in cults. Vanessa N. Weber, MSW, LCSW has worked with victims of cults and their families, since 1980. She was one of the original founders of reFocus and the original Cult Awareness Network, NY/NJ chapter. She has a BA in Religion from Barnard College, studied at Union Theological Seminary, and received her MSW at Yeshiva University. She is the author of Hooked on Psychics, soon to be published by Motivational Press. Doni Whitsett, PhD, LCSW, is a Clinical Professor of Social Work at the University of Southern California School of Social Work. Dr. Whitsett teaches various courses in practice, behavior, and mental health. She has been working with cult-involved clients and their families for 20 years and gives lectures to students and professionals in this area. She has presented at national and international conferences in Madrid, Poland, Canada, and in Australia, where she helped organize two conferences in Brisbane. Her talks have included The Psychobiology of Trauma and Child Maltreatment (2005, Madrid) and Why Cults Are Harmful: A Neurobiological View of Interpersonal Trauma (2012, Montreal). Her publications include "The Psychobiology of Trauma and Child Maltreatment" (Cultic Studies Review, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2006), “A Self Psychological Approach to the Cult Phenomenon” (Journal of Social Work, 1992), and “Cults and Families” (Families in Society, Vol. 84, No. 4, 2003), which she coauthored with Dr. Stephen Kent.

Transportation / Directions Getting to Santa Fe Albuquerque International Sunport (ABQ) Is serviced by all of the major US airlines. Flying into ABQ is usually less expensive than flying into Santa Fe. The travel time from ABQ to Santa Fe is approximately one (1) hour north of ABQ. Santa Fe Municipal Airport (SAF) Although Albuquerque International Airport is usually recommended, sometimes Santa Fe Municipal Airport is more convenient and less expensive, so worth checking into. Airport Transportation Sandia Shuttle Express - for reservations call 1-888-775-5696 or 505-474-5696 or online atwww.sandiashuttle.com Provides frequent daily van transfers between ABQ Airport and La Fonda on the Plaza. It takes approximately one hour. $47 round trip.

Roadrunner Shuttle Services (www.roadrunnershuttleandcharter.com)Telephone: (505) 424-3367 - The approximate cost for one-way ground

shuttle service is $27.00 one-way, per person. Rail Runner Express (www.nmrailrunner.com) is a commuter rail system that enables one to go from the Airport in Albuquerque to Santa Fe for about $10, but it does involve some challenges. A colleague who tested the route said: "It does involve extra planning, in that you can buy a ticket on line before you fly in, and then your train ticket gives you a free bus ride from the airport to the train terminal, a 15 minute ride. There is the additional hassle of going from the air terminal to the train terminal by bus, riding the train, and then getting a shuttle to the hotel in Santa Fe. It is about a 6 block walk from the train station to the La Fonda Hotel, but uphill and with luggage it would be a challenge. The train is designed more for commuters, so you're in charge of your own luggage. There are racks above the seats to put smaller pieces of luggage. There are also bus shuttles that go from the airport to Santa Fe."

Santa Fe Municipal Airport (SAF) American Eagle offers two non-stop daily flights between Dallas and Santa Fe, and one daily from Los Angeles. Taxi Services The Capital City Cab Company provides taxi services - Contact (505) 438-0000 for transportation information or use the courtesy phone inside the terminal building. Rental Car Services All major car rental agencies are represented at the ABQ Airport. The drive is approximately one hour to La Fonda on the Plaza. Parking overnight fee at La Fonda on the Plaza is $8.00 per vehicle, per day. Directions from I-25 and Albuquerque Airport Santa Fe is approximately 60 miles north of Albuquerque. As you leave the airport, take the Sunport exit to I-25 North. When you reach Santa Fe, take Exit #284 (Old Pecos Trail). At the stop sign at the top of the hill, turn left. Proceed north to the third traffic light and bear right to stay on Old Pecos Trail into town. Old Pecos Trail becomes Old Santa Fe Trail which dead ends into La Fonda at Water Street. Go around the hotel by turning left on Water, then making an immediate right. At the traffic light at San Francisco Street, turn right again – away from the Plaza and toward the St. Francis Cathedral Basilica. Proceed to the hotel’s parking garage at the end of the block, on the right side of the street. Also see: http://www.lafondasantafe.com/about/directions.html

Hotel Santa Fe As Santa Fe's oldest, best known hotel, La Fonda on the Plazahas set the standard for warm and elegant accommodations since the early 1900s. Located in the historic heart of the city across from the 1887 St. Francis Cathedral Basilica, we have long been the destination for discriminating travelers, earning a reputation as the crossroads of the world. The legendary Santa Fe Trail ends at La Fonda, signaling to travelers that, wherever their journey began, they've finally arrived. Special ICSA Conference Rate: $105/night plus tax Reservation info Individual reservations can be made by the following two methods by the cut-off date of Monday, September 30, 2013. Please identify yourself as part of the organization or group code: ICSA or #747967. 1. Call La Fonda’s Reservations Department at 800-523-5002 or 505-982-5511; then choose #1 Please call between the hours of (MST): Monday through Friday: 7am – 8pm Saturday: 8am – 5pm Sunday: 9am – 5pm 2. To make reservations on-line: http://www.lafondasantafe.com/group-reservationrequest/ La Fonda website 100 East San Francisco Street Santa Fe, NM 87501 Get directions Directions

Altitude Issues Santa Fe's altitude is 7000 feet -nearly 2000 feet higher than Denver or Albuquerque. Though not as high risk of altitude sickness as one finds in other parts of the Rockies, the altitude of Santa Fe is something to take into consideration. WebMD has a useful article on altitude sickness. The section on prevention is particularly relevant to this conference. However, depending upon your health status, other factors

may be pertinent to you. Please read the article so you will be informed.