Video Interviews

I work with clients from a wide variety of high control religions, groups and cults - these two interviews are on a YouTube channel dedicated to the Ex-Jehovah's Witness experience but the vast majority of what we talk about also applies to other groups.

Unfortunately we did not realize until after that the internet connection for the first video was a bit spotty - apologies for that! It will help if you turn on Closed Captions by clicking on the 'CC' button at the bottom right of the YouTube window - that way you can have the subtitles on while you watch.

For those of you who would like to have the direct urls, here they are:

Part I: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npffi6OzYXc

Part II: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_pLXCdLRf0

A big shout out to Justin from ExJW Diaries for having me on his channel. :)

Part I topics (1 hour and 56 minutes)

Client Autonomy
How High Control Religions, Groups & Cults Work
The BITE Model
Degrees of Control
Degrees of Religiosity
How Groups Prepare you for Compliance
Fear, Guilt and Shame (the ‘Three Food Groups’)
Why Shunning Works so Well as a Threat
The Power of Language
Exclusive Truth Claims
The Accent Analogy
The (Existential) Elephants in the Room
The Dome Analogy
The Wizard of Oz Analogy
Beliefs vs Control Exercise

Part II topics (1 hour and 33 minutes)

Religious Trauma
Religious Residue
CPTSD (Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
Purity Culture and Sexual Shame (for Women, Men and Members of the LGBTQ community)
The Stages of Leaving
The United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR)

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