I was sitting in the ER this evening trying to distract myself by reading Captive Hearts Captive Minds. There is some great information in the book that is helpful to those trying to recover from living in and leaving a cult. I just kept seeing one great topic after another that we could use in here.
I was wondering how we could use the information at JWD to help people make their recovery a consious effort rather than just letting time to hopefully do the work.
I was thinking that once a week I could post a topic and people could post their thoughts about it or just do the exercise on their own and maybe just post what they are comfortable sharing. Once we have a few of them people can go back and forth as the topic affects their lives. New people can always join in whenever they want and still benefit from it.
I could put the links to all the parts in the Best of so people can find them easily.
Some weeks would just be a discussion but as we go along there are exercises the book suggests.
Some of the chapters are:
- The Cult Phenomenon
- Cults and cultic relationships
- Seduction and recruitment
- Understanding thought reform
- Individual differences affecting recovery
- Characteristics of a cult leader
- The Healing Process
- Taking back your mind
- Undoing the damage
- Coping with emotions (this one alone will be more than 1 week)
- Rebuilding a life
- Facing the challenges of the future
- Healing from sexual abuse and violence
- Making Progress by taking action
- Special concerns
- Children in cults
- Therapeutic issues
Would anyone be interested?
Any ideas how this would work?
What do you think are problems from trying it out?