SURVIVORSHIP WEBINARS

Survivorship is happy to announce a series of Webinars and Teleconferences on various aspects of ritual abuse and healing. Webinars are seminars on the Web � basically, conference calls plus slides. Teleconferences are conference calls; sometimes they are accompanied by slides on the Survivorship website. Both can have question and answer periods. They are like presentations at a conference, except there is no travel involved!


Story Continues below


Please Help keep this site free by clicking on our sponsors


This is how it works. You call a certain number, you are connected to the conference call, and you listen to the presenter over your phone. If it's a Webinar, you see slides or other documents on your computer. There is also a chat feature.

Hopefully, this new technology will be an effective way of imparting information and building bridges between people who cannot meet in person. We hope that many of you will participate and some will be inspired to give Webinars or Teleconferences on aspects of ritual abuse, mind control, and healing that are of particular interest to you. Remember, we are all experts, we all have something to contribute, and together we are writing the �instruction manual� for healing!



SCHEDULE

March 13
12 noon Pacific time
�Art and Activism: What the Public Sees.�
Lynn Schirmer

Lynn Schirmer spent the last five years presenting her experience of extreme abuse, expressed through her artwork, to largely incredulous audiences. She will share anecdotes of successes and failures and her thoughts on which approaches seem most effective in attempts to educate the public and others in her community. She will show photos of her most recent bodies of work, including larger than life sculpture, drawing, and painting. (Please note, this imagery may be upsetting and/or triggering.)

Lynn is an artist and survivor of ritual abuse-torture and trauma-based mind control. She holds regular open studios where she engages audiences about the reality of extreme abuse and tax-funded exploitation of children and adults. Her work has been exhibited in several cities in the US and in France. Her professional art website is: http://LynnSchirmer.com/ and her personal website is: http://lynnsart.net



Saturday, April 17
12 noon Pacific time
"Healthy Supportive Relationships � What They Are, How to Make One."
Kitty Downey

What does a healthy supportive relationship look like? What are warning signs of a non-healthy relationship? What can I do about the relationship I'm in now?

Kitty is a survivor of mind control, hypnosis, amateur programming, and some kind of government research/testing. She has been learning and healing for many decades using psychotherapy, faith, music, and self-help techniques. She has applied this learning to her husband, children, friends, and extended family � seeing what makes some relationships work, some *not* work, and how to improve the dysfunctional ones.



Saturday, May 15
12 noon Pacific time
"Riding off into the Sunrise."
Celestial

"Riding off into the Sunrise" shares the landscape of long-haul recovery after those first ten years. Our reflexes and defenses can become slightly less alienating and unmanageable, and we can find ourselves turning them into a source of strength and specialness � and even humor.

By day, Celestial is a mild-mannered churchlady who listens to and helps people all day long. By night, Celestial is a mild-mannered churchlady who collects recovery stories in various languages, then puts them into writing and pictures and standup comedy and music and green health drinks and gives them away. Her favorite foods are mac and cheese and tollhouse cookies, but instead she eats a lot of kale.



PAST WEBINARS
Survivorship members may listen to past Webinars in the members� section. (For information on joining Survivorship, click here.) Past Webinars include:
�Hope, Healing and Help through Music and Advocacy.�
Mike Skinner
�Understanding Nazi Influence in Ritual Abuse.�
Alik of the OwlClan
�Sensory and Emotional Flashbacks.�
Jeannie Riseman
�The Intersection between Ritual Abuse and Physical Disability.�
Lara BSW
�Forgiving the Unforgivable: One Survivor�s Journey to Peace �
Bonnie Bazill-Davis
�How Survivors Can Help Their Own Cases for Disability Application and Appeal.�
Pam Perskin Noblitt
�Empowerment and Managing the Effects of Programming.�
Randy Noblitt, Ph.D.
�Normal Guilt, Guilt Induced by Extreme Abuse, and Some Suggestions for Working with Guilt.�
Jeannie Riseman



PRIVACY CONCERNS
As always, the information you send Survivorship in order to register is kept strictly confidential. No record is kept of your phone number. You choose what name to go by for the Webinar or Teleconference: it does not have to be your real name or message board screen name.

The presentation will be recorded and posted on our website so that you can hear it again. When you call into join, you are asked to agree to being recorded, but of course you will not be recorded unless you speak during a question and answer period.



SELF CARE
We have received feedback that hearing other survivors� voices is a very emotional experience. Think about ways to take care of yourself afterwards in case you have this reaction or in case the material presented stirs up issues.



EQUIPMENT NEEDED
If you have DSL:
Windows XP SP2, 2003, Vista, LINUX, or Mac OSX or higher
Firefox 2 or 3, Internet Exploror 6 or 7, or Safari
Flash Player 9 (available for free: download at
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer
A cell or conventional phone to hear the audio portion.
If you have dial up, you may use your phone for the audio
portion but you will be unable to see the slides or participate in the chat.



COST
Each Webinar is $20.00, plus the cost of your telephone call. (Figure on an hour and a half to two hours.) There are a limited number of full and partial scholarships available.



REGISTRATION
After we have received your registration and payment, you will receive a confirming e-mail, detailed instructions, and an invitation with the phone number to call and the password to enter the Webinar. (Each Webinar will have its own password.)

To reserve a space in the Webinar, e-mail at shamai@survivorship.org and give her this information:

1. Your name

2. The Webinar(s) you wish to attend

3. Method of payment

4. Whether you need a full or partial scholarship
(You may use PayPal for partial scholarships)

5. Your preferred e-mail address (so we can send you instructions and an invitation containing the password)

6. Your time zone (The conference software automatically adjusts the time for us)

7. The name you will be using for the Webinar



You can do one of the internal links to Registration, or if you are paying by check or money order, send payment to:

SURVIVORSHIP
Family Justice Center
470 27th Street,
Oakland, CA 94612

If you are paying with PayPal, use the buttons below.

http://survivorship.org/webinars.html