Our Healing Journey: Past, Present, Future

Two days of survivor and professional workshops, a safe room, great price, good food, safe environment, a chance to mingle with others who share your experience, a chance to move the movement forward…

On May 19 – 20, 2012
Survivorship will hold a conference at
Executive Inn & Suite
1755 Embaracadero
Oakland, CA 94606

http://survivorship.org/2012conference.html

The keynote speaker will be: Caryn Stardancer

Caryn Stardancer was a pioneer in establishing a grassroots network for survivors of Caryn Stardancersadistic ritualistic abuse. She co-founded Survivorship with Catherine Raggazzi, and served at the helm of that organization for a decade. During that time Caryn wrote and spoke both nationally and internationally, served as a mentor-counselor, taught professional service providers through UC Davis Entension classes and San Francisco General Hospital Grand Rounds, and exhibited her survivorship-inspired artwork in publications, galleries and exhibitions. She is currently retired to her rural home, where she is a proudly active grandma, homemaker and gardener.

Survivorship is one of the oldest and most respected organizations supporting survivors of extreme child abuse, including sadistic sexual abuse, ritualistic abuse, mind control, and torture.

Survivorship provides resources, healing, and community for survivors; training and education for professionals who may serve survivors; and support for survivors’ partners and other allies. The organization functions as a lifeline for survivors who may be isolated emotionally or geographically. Through community outreach and training, Survivorship also raises awareness about these difficult issues.

The purpose of the conference will be to help survivors of ritual abuse and their allies. The conference will be for survivors, cosurvivors, helping professionals and others interested in this topic.

Saturday Evening Concert

There will be a concert held Saturday night 7-9 PM at the Executive Inn and Suites. The concert will feature:

Lisa Cohen

Lisa Cohen: www.lisacohenmusic.com

Lisa Cohen is a truly gifted & unique Bay area blues, jazz & gospel vocalist. She has been wowing audiences on the Women’s Music circuit for years with her soulful voice & stage presence. A voice so powerful and dynamic, that she has been compared to both Odetta & Luciano Pavarotti.

”Call it jazz, call it blues, call it gospel, call it what you will, this is one singer who really brings all that she is through Spirit, into the song she’s singing into life. Opening her heart, singing from the soul, reaching deep one soul to another, to another, to another.“ – LuAnn Topp Womyn’s Words Magazine

Joining Lisa will be the Bay area’s legendary composer and pianist,

Mary Watkins

Mary Watkins: www.marywatkins.net

Mary Watkins is a composer and pianist with a vision. When you listen to her you will swear the heavens have opened up and sent an angel into our midst to play a heavenly blend of blues, folk and jazz. At the piano, she becomes a master improvisationalist, giving a huge range of emotion, form and substance, to her music and when she and Lisa play together it is truly magical.

Also featuring,

Deborah Tisdale

Deborah Tisdale is a Bay Area vocalist who began singing while growing up in Los Angeles, California. In addition to singing in various church choirs, she sang with the Pacific Chorale of Orange County. After moving to the Bay Area, she joined and sang with the East Bay Church of Religious Science Choir and has sung with the Berkeley Community Chorus. In the spring of 2008 she performed as a back-up singer for San Francisco jazz singer Paula West, and has further expanded her musical interests into jazz and pop. Currently, she sings with Dominion A Cappella Ensemble and the gospel group Sharon D. Henderson & Friends, and is a sought-after guest soloist in Bay Area New Thought churches.

Survivor Workshops – Saturday

David Shurter

Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor’s Story

David Shurter, author of the just published Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor’s Story, a book about SRA and events that surrounded Omaha NE and his life, is concerned that we are in a modern day rabbit hole concerning the allegations that have come out in our nation lately concerning child abuse, and details his life and the events that surrounded him as a comparison to what we are seeing today in hopes to educate people thus preventing history from repeating itself. Speaking of the societal implications that the child and drug trafficking had on the people involved with it, his focus is to explore the events that surrounded a failed savings and loan and his family and their affairs in order to explain what exactly was occurring in the middle of the country when he was inducted into a cult as a child- up to his adulthood, when the cult members sought him out again. Affirming that which has been kept hidden under the guise of conspiracy theories, it is his hope to bring survivors forward in a way that we no longer have to bother with the doubt of what happened because we already know, in order to help shape the newly developing consciousness concerning our plight. Exploring his past in Omaha, he brings a new perspective to satanic ritual abuse in such a way that it can no longer be denied, and it is his hopes to share his enthusiasm for the shift that is happening and to explore the concept that people are actually waking up.

Bio: David Shurter was intimately connected to events in Omaha surrounding a failed credit union and to the elite who were involved in a drug and child trafficking ring. Having written Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor’s Story, it is David’s hope to expose the SRA that occurred in his childhood.

Kitty Downey

How Pets Help Healing, Comfort and Living

Over view of various helper animals and birds including:
service, court, therapy, assistance, seeing eye, and less known psychiatric.

Research on how the presence of pets and interaction with them affects moods, depression, mental state, alertness, and even physical readings (e.g. blood pressure.)
Benefits from ownership of pet or visiting elsewhere.
Classification under American and Canadian rules.
How to qualify a psychiatric dog.
What organizations provide and what can be done on your own. Animals do NOT have to be purchased or donated from an official organization.
Healing benefits and suggestions in case some parts inside are afraid of the pet.
Being with the pet publicly, answering nosy questions, practical concerns, tips and warnings, choices so that public reaction and laws do not turn more restrictive.

Bio: Kitty Downey is a survivor of extreme child abuse of many types along with mind control, hypnosis and amateur programming. She has been learning and healing for decades using psychotherapy, faith, music, animals and self-help techniques. She volunteers with Survivorship as a webinar presenter and editor of the Journal.

Shelby

Empowering your SRA/RA Recovery

DID vs. DSS when is one a disorder and the other a survival skill?
Memories: know if it is real or fake.

• Good memories and how we feel, smell, experience taken back to that time and happiness experienced.
• Bad memories, how we feel, smell, experience taken back to that time and the trauma experienced.

Bio: Shelby was born in northern California. Her Mother was a multigenerational Mormon and The Father was a convert from a Masonic background. She has had her name removed from the Mormon Church and no longer affiliates with this organization.

Shelby owns her own martial arts school where she has been very successful in working with all ages of people and promoting a positive life.

She wants to tell her story to give hope, courage and inspiration to other victims/survivors.

“what you did to survive, you can use to heal”

Survivor Workshops – Sunday

Chaya Malika

Healing Ethnic Violence: a Story about Surviving My Family’s Nazi Cult

With the help of my many selves, I’ll tell my story, that of an Arab Jew raised in a Nazi/KKK cult. I’ll describe my recovery from ethnic violence and invite participants who want to share their own experiences. My love of dancing will be woven throughout my talk.

Bio: Chaya Malika is a writer, dancer, artist, healer, and survivor of ritual abuse and government torture. Her life is getting better and better.

Jen Cross

Writing Ourselves Whole – A Healing Writing Workshop

Many of us who are survivors of sexual trauma feel fragmented or disjointed and have come to believe we must always live our lives this way. Transforming our language is one way we transform our lives; we can create new art and new beauty out of the difficult and complicated realities of our lives. During this workshop, you’ll write in response to exercises chosen to elicit deep-heart writing, engaging with such subjects as family/community, dreams, love, faith, and more. This is a space in which you will be welcome to write in whatever voice(s) arise for you – no singular narrative or/of self is required in this space or on these pages.

Although the setting is a supportive one, this workshop is different from a therapy group, as the focus of the workshop itself will be on each person’s writing. Also, even as we come together as survivors, we are never required to write any particular version of our “abuse story.” In this space, you have the opportunity to write as you feel called to write, no matter what the subject. You’ll leave this workshop with: a renewed sense of yourself as resiliently creative, a rich body of new creative writing, feedback from your peers about what’s already strong in your new writing, and connection with a new writing community.

Bio: Jen Cross (MA-Transformative Language Arts) has facilitated survivors writing workshops since 2002. She worked with survivors of domestic violence and other traumas, individually and in groups, before beginning to lead workshops through which trauma survivors could express complicated truths through writing. She is the founder/facilitator of Writing Ourselves Whole.

Leslene della-Madre

Survivor Track: Shamanism and Healing Trauma

Shamanism is an age-old, cross-cultural healing practice. In using shamanism in healing I have discovered what I believe to be the root cause of all trauma and have created my own unique shamanic pathways in addressing this wounding. I will discuss this perspective and offer teachings on soul retrieval, power animal retrieval, the sacred Medicine Wheel and the retrieval of the Sacred Feminine. In shamanic teachings, there are parts of the soul that are never abused, never wounded, no matter what our experiences may have been. While we do need to heal our pain, if we can access what is known as the ‘nagual’ within, we can find hidden strengths that we never knew were there, learn to dis-identify from our wounded-ness and claim inner power that is stronger than the effects of any abuse.

Bio: Leslene della-Madre, author, spiritual “midwife,” shamanic practitioner, teacher and founder of Winged Women Return, a center for shamanic healing in Sebastopol, CA, incorporates the use of innovative shamanic techniques in the healing of trauma and serves as spiritual adjunct and colleague in the community of doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists.

Professional Workshops – Saturday

Lynette Danylchuk

Treating Ritual Abuse Survivors

At this point, there are many theoretical approaches to dealing with trauma survivors. They are all helpful, to a point. However, when the survivor has had to deal with ritual abuse, there are issues and dynamics that go beyond what most therapists are taught.

This workshop targets specific issues and patterns common to survivors of ritual abuse, along with some ways to deal with them, empowering both the therapist and the survivor.

The topics that will be covered include: the ordeal, double bind, illusion of choice, deliberate targeting of any attachment, training in external locus of control, use/misuse of magical thinking, attributing power to abusers that doesn’t exist, triangle, trauma bond, and the theological, alogical mind traps

Bio: Lynette Danylchuk, Ph.D. is a psychologist in private practice in San Mateo, Calif. She has served on the Board of Directors of Survivorship from 1989-2002. She is currently on the Board of Directors of ISSTD and Chair of their Professional Training Program. She has worked with survivors for over 25 years.

Randy Noblitt

Accessing Dissociated Mental States: Techniques, Ethics and Risk Management

This PowerPoint-assisted workshop teaches clinical skills for mental health professionals who work with survivors of extreme abuse. More specifically, we will discuss the clinical strategy that I call Accessing Dissociated Mental States (Noblitt, 1997; Noblitt & Perskin, 2000). We will review the narratives of survivors that explain how they were trained to experience trauma-mediated amnesia and dissociation of identity in response to particular triggering stimuli. We will discuss the details of how such abusive training is often done and how therapists can integrate this knowledge in their own clinical assessments and treatment planning. Included will be some of the common and more generic triggers as well as methods for discovering more idiosyncratic cues. Unfortunately many of these survivors are in therapy for years before these problems are accurately identified. Are there quicker, more efficient ways for detecting these cue-controlled behaviors and providing appropriate treatment? What are some of the common hand signals, touch methods and other programming cues? Should therapists know about these so that they can avoid those that may be harmful? On the other hand, can therapists use triggers as part of therapy to facilitate the survivor’s recover? We will consider these questions and others in the context of ethical practice and risk management. A survivor of extreme abuse will participate in the actual demonstration of specific techniques.

Bio: Randy Noblitt is Professor of Clinical Psychology at The California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University in Los Angeles, California. He is also an author and educator and has acted as consultant, expert witness, and fact witness in civil and criminal cases involving allegations of child abuse, ritual abuse, and cult affiliation.

Panels

Survivor Panel:
Therapists can ask questions to survivors about different issues.

Moderator – Neil Brick
Participants – dejoly Labrier, Dvora Gordon, Carmen Yana Holiday

Dvora is a survivor of child prostitution and ritualized abuse. She has been a member of Survivorship since 1998. She served as President of the Survivorship Bd of Directors for 4 years. She is honored to do work for Survivorship and feels really good about giving back to a community that was so essential in her own healing process.

Carmen Yana Holiday is a survivor of systematic Freemason and US government abuse including torture and deliberate dissociation, child pornography and human trafficking. She has facilitated recovery workshops for survivors of extreme abuse and presented as a survivor for several organizations.

Final Panel for All: Advocacy and the Future of the Survivor Movement

Jenny is a survivor of satanic abuse who experienced her first RA memories in 1990. She served for five years on Survivorship’s board of Directors in the early 2000′s, and continues to support Survivorship and other survivors in every way she can.

Neil Brick is a survivor of Masonic based Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA. He is the editor of S.M.A.R.T. A Ritual Abuse Newsletter and coordinator of annual ritual abuse conferences.

deJoly LaBrier is a survivor of extreme abuse in the forms of a military child sex ring, government experimentation, satanic ritual abuse, mind control and the resulting MPD/DID. She has written two books, Diary of A Survivor in Art and Poetry; and All Together Now, A Multiple’s Story of Hope and Healing. deJoly is an advocate, mentor and public speaker on the issues of sexual abuse, mind control and government experimentation. She feels that by giving voice to the truth of what has happened to her, others who are unable to speak, either out of fear or not believing they will be heard or believed, will find hope in their recovery from the abuse.

Professional Workshops – Sunday

Ani Rose Whaleswan

The Language of Integration and Altered States: Honoring our Dissociative Capacities

Living with multiplicity myself, and being a friend to many other survivors, I have long felt hurt, angered, and frustrated by the traditional definitions and limits put on the words: integration, altered states (alters), and dissociation (as a disorder). This eventually led me to start looking into other cultural and global uses of those words. Suddenly a lot of things began to make sense, to support my vision for new definitions and ways of discussing these words (and all that they mean in healing). It’s not the words so much as how we use them, which will transform and bring about healing. We have the power to change our own old ways of defining ourselves through expanding and transforming the words we use. If we can expand our definitions, then treatment visions and modalities can expand. Healing is a life-long process for all people. To limit the meaning of words solely to the understanding in the psychiatric/psychological field, limits treatment and hope.

This workshop will compare various uses of words, and expand their meaning for victims of trauma, and those that serve them, those that live with them, and those who seek to understand them as equals.

Bio: Ani Rose Whaleswan is a mom, writer and artist originally from the Pacific NW and now in Colorado. She is a survivor of severe trauma from early childhood. Besides her own healing work, she has several years’ experience as a group facilitator and in various kinds of ministry. As an advocate she believes deeply in the healing process and likes to share that, “art is healing, and healing is an art.”

Sonia Connolly

From Shame to Compassion: Reconciling with Ourselves after Abuse

Sonia Connolly, LMT, shares practical, try-it-now tools to move from shame to compassion as we heal from abuse. She recently published Wellspring of Compassion: Self-Care for Sensitive People Healing from Trauma.

When we start to heal from abuse, we interpret the metaphor of a healing journey as taking us from broken to whole, from deeply unsatisfactory Here to much improved There. We are ashamed of our wounds and set goals to appear normal and functional to outside eyes. We can journey instead from shame to compassion, from seeing with outside eyes to inside eyes. Our most important healing task is to reconcile with ourselves.

The metaphor of a growing tree expresses the process of becoming more ourselves as we heal. We are rooted in the past and in our physical bodies. We stretch our branches into new possibilities, shaped by the obstacles and open spaces we find. We can acknowledge our weaknesses and strengths, our goals and obstacles, and our rhythms of activity and rest as we grow into our unique shapes.

Rather than strive to eliminate our trauma symptoms, we can learn to respond to them differently. For example, one common result of abuse is suicidal thoughts and feelings. Both survivors and healers often react with judgment or panic. Once physical safety is assured, we can respond with acceptance and look at what is underneath. Some possibilities are exhaustion, shame, flashbacks, and past threats for telling about abuse.

As we journey from outside eyes to inside eyes, from shame to compassion, we create room for self-forgiveness. Survivors are urged to forgive their abusers, but little attention is focused on forgiving ourselves. Self-forgiveness is giving up all hope of being a different person. In healing, we forgive ourselves for action and inaction, for vulnerability and strength, for standing out and fitting in. We reconcile with ourselves and feel the support and acceptance we longed for.

Bio: Sonia Connolly, LMT offers intuitive, compassionate bodywork in Portland, Oregon for sensitive trauma survivors. Her new book Wellspring of Compassion: Self-Care for Sensitive People Healing from Trauma is inspired by twelve years of client sessions and twenty years of self-observation while healing from abuse.

Heather Dawn

Working with Nightmares

Nightmares are intense, frightening experiences that disrupt sleep and leave the dreamer in a heightened state of physiological arousal and emotional discomfort. Common reactions on awakening from a nightmare include increased heart and respiratory rates, sweating, sharpened attention, fear, anger, panic, or feeling helpless or out of control.

Nightmare may contain images of abandonment, falling, fear of failure or even replay waking life events which occurs in PTSD so often that it is one of the identifying factors.

In this workshop the methods for working with dreams and nightmares will be reviewed.

Bio: Heather Dawn is completing her Doctors in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) with a Specialization in Dreams at Saybrook University and also holds an MA in Consciousness Studies from John F Kennedy University. She has attended conferences of the International Association for the Study of Dreams and numerous symposiums on trauma. These experiences have given her the opportunity to study with some of the most well known people in the areas of dreams and trauma. Her ancestry roots are Celtic and Germanic. She has lived her life according to her dreams for over 30 years.

Co-sponsors

1. The North American Truth & Reconciliation Coalition (NATRC) seeks to raise public awareness about historical and ongoing human rights violations in North America, and works to establish an accurate and truthful historical record of such crimes, including human trafficking, organized ritual crime, child soldiering, mind control experimentation and other forms of torture, in both the private and public spheres.

The North American Truth & Reconciliation Coalition (NATRC)
PO Box 401
Council Bluffs, IA 51502-0401
http://natrcoalition.org/

2. S.M.A.R.T., a newsletter that examines the possible connections between ritual abuse and secretive organizations.

S.M.A.R.T
P. O. Box 1295
Easthampton, MA, 01027
E-mail: SMARTNEWS@aol.com
http://ritualabuse.us/

3. CPPA
The Mission of the California Protective Parents Association is to protect children from incest and family violence through research, education and advocacy.

California Protective Parents Association
PO Box 15284
Sacramento CA 95851-0284
E-mail: cppa001@aol.com
http://www.protectiveparents.com/

4. deJoly LaBrier is a survivor of extreme abuse in the forms of a military child sex ring, government experimentation, satanic ritual abuse, mind control and the resulting MPD/DID. She has written two books, Diary of A Survivor in Art and Poetry; and All Together Now, A Multiple’s Story of Hope and Healing. deJoly is an advocate, mentor and public speaker on the issues of sexual abuse, mind control and government experimentation. She feels that by giving voice to the truth of what has happened to her, others who are unable to speak, either out of fear or not believing they will be heard or believed, will find hope in their recovery from the abuse.

5. BAWAR
Bay Area Women Against Rape (BAWAR), the nation’s first rape crisis center, was formed in 1971 to provide 24-hour comprehensive, services for survivors of sexual assault and their significant others. We have a 24hr crisis line 510-845-7273; accompaniment/advocacy to hospitals, police departmens and through the court system; in-person counseling and community education programs. All of BAWAR services free of charge and available in English and Spanish. www.bawar.org

Bay Area Women Against Rape
470 27th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
E-mail: bawar@bawar.org
http://www.bawar.org/

24-hour Confidential Rape Crisis Hotline: (510) 845-7273

for information for the conference:
http://survivorship.org/2012conference.html

DoubleTree near
Bradley International Airport
16 Ella Grasso Turnpike
Windsor Locks, CT

Internet conference information:
http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/

2011 Ritual Abuse Conference CDs are now available http://ritualabuse.us/smart-conference/2011-conference/

Conference Goals
- To help stop future occurrences of ritual abuse
- To help survivors of ritual abuse
- To name the groups that have participated in alleged illegal activities
- To unite those working to stop ritual abuse

Conference Schedule
There will be a small get together, deli dinner, dessert and early registration for pre-registered attendees only, on August 10, Friday evening. The conference will be all day on Saturday August 11 and Sunday August 12. Please check our conference home page for the latest conference schedule information. Some presentations will also be recorded.

Conference Registration
(Please read the entire brochure before registering.)
Registration is not guaranteed, please wait for approval before making travel arrangements. Or you can preregister via E-mail at: SMARTNEWS@aol.com Please mail registration form and checks (US Banks only please), money orders (US) to: RA Conference, c/o S.M.A.R.T., P O Box 1295, Easthampton, MA 01027 USA

Name: (please include names and individual addresses of all registrees, thanks.)

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Fees
Early registration fees (all fees are per person)
(note: fees must be received by the due date below to get the special prices)

One and two day registrations do not include the Friday deli dinner and dessert buffet.

Before 4/2/12 – $150 special price for both days and Friday night dinner
Before 6/10/12 – 2 day $175, one day $90
Before 7/10/12- 2 day $185, one day $95
Before 8/1/12 – 2 day $205, one day $105
After 8/6/12 – 2 day $215, one day $110
(All fees must be received by due dates above.)

(Circle one – Sat – Sun for one day registrations)

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To add Friday night early registration, get together, deli dinner and dessert – $37.00

Donation to help those on fee waiver (not tax deductible):

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Total Amount Due _____________

special meals needed ____________________

Please make checks payable to S.M.A.R.T. (US banks only, please.)

Refund Policy: Fees will not be refunded after July 10, 2012. Please send us written notice. Refund will be minus $70.00 deposit per registree.

Conference Information

Conference Participants
The conference will include all those either recovering from ritual abuse and/or fighting against ritual abuse. This includes survivors, co-survivors, therapists, other helping professionals, lawyers and all others interested in learning more about ritual abuse.

Members of secret organizations, acting out perpetrators, and/or members of unsympathetic organizations are excluded from the conference. This is for the protection and safety of those in attendance.

People have told us that last year’s conference was the safest conference they have ever been to. But, this conference may not necessarily be safe for all survivors. S.M.A.R.T. recommends that you try to bring a support person that is familiar with mind control techniques and staying with that person or another safe person at all times.

Speakers and Biographies

Please note: Listing of these speakers does not necessarily constitute our endorsement of them. They are speaking at our conference for educational  value  only and some may be heavy for survivors.  Listening to the speakers at the conference may or may not help your recovery process, so use caution when listening to any speaker or contacting any resource mentioned in this brochure.  These descriptions may be heavy for survivors to read, so please use caution while reading these.

Neil Brick is a survivor of Masonic based Ritual Abuse and MK-ULTRA. He is the editor of S.M.A.R.T. – A Ritual Abuse Newsletter. His topic is: Recent Child Abuse Crimes and Efforts to Unite Survivors.

Shamai Currim PhD is a retired therapist, educator, and educational consultant. She continues to work with survivors and has been involved with children and families with special needs, AIDS hospice, and Prison communities. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of Survivorship and the Steering Committee of the Association for the Advancement of Psychosynthesis. Her topic is: Meaghan’s Story: A Tale of Integration

deJoly LaBrier has been doing recovery work for 22 yrs. She has spoken publicly about her experiences in a military sex ring, Satanic cult and government experimentation; and is grateful for the serenity and sanity she now experiences.  Her topic is:  Finding Our Individual Paths Out of Chaos

Dave was satanically abused for over 50 years by those he loved and trusted, as well as others who were paid to harm him for his refusal, as a child to join their cult. Dave hopes his story and recovery will help others by giving them hope and courage. His topic is: My Life and Attitudes Before and After My Recovery

David Shurter states he is a member of a satanic family and an MKUltra survivor. He believes his father was a practicing high priest in Omaha NE. Having written and published Rabbit Hole: A Satanic Ritual Abuse Survivor’s Story this year, he has detailed his experiences and those surrounding satanic events in Omaha NE. A founding member of the NATRC, David works extensively with survivor’s in the US and abroad in order to further the exposure of SRA and educate about the effects of RA on individuals. His topic is: Surviving Our Current Day Rabbit Hole

Sarah Jacqueline freed herself through deep self-journey from years of living in hell as an alleged victim of satanic abuse to now survivor.  Born into a family of Satanists and has experienced  and seen some horrific abuse.  She speaks of hope and freeing and illusion. Her topic is: Exposing Satanic Abuse

Until age seven, Maria was subject to satanic abuse. Maria experienced perverse worship, torturous brain programming, sexual violence, body dislocations, and was drugged. Although relocated at age seven, molestation from random strangers and family members continued until she moved out. She lives well with profound awareness. She now experiences joy and peace. Her topic is : Free at Last

Alexandra is a multi disciplinary therapist.  She incorporates various types of energy work, muscle testing, NLP, essential oils, and color into her cognitive behavioral therapy practice. She has an M. A. in Counseling Psychology and has been working with ritual abuse survivors for over 20 years. Her topic is: What I have learned so far.

Survivorship is an international non-profit organization for survivors of sadistic sexual abuse, ritualistic abuse, mind control, and torture. A history of Survivorship’s last twenty plus years of work helping survivors will be presented with interviews from members of Survivorship. The presentation will include Survivorship’s present day activities and ways survivors can learn more about the organization and get involved. Survivorship, FJC,470 27th St., Oakland, Ca 94612 survivorshipstaff@yahoo.com http://www.survivorship.org

Sponsorship  and Co-sponsorship Information

All sponsors and cosponsors have made promotional contributions to the conference. We want to thank them for all their efforts.

Please note: Listing of these resource organizations does not necessarily constitute our endorsement of them. They are helping to promote the  conference and some may be heavy for some survivors, so use caution  contacting any resource mentioned in this brochure.

The conference is sponsored by  S.M.A.R.T.,  a newsletter that examines the possible connections between ritual abuse and secretive organizations. E-mail:  SMARTNEWS@aol.com http://ritualabuse.us/

Promotional Co-sponsors

Mothers Against Sexual Abuse (MASA) 404 Wilson St., Union, SC 29379 864-429-9161 Updated website at http://www.Againstsexualabuse.org, newest book http://www.Childhooditshouldnothurt.com  MASA is dedicated to education and helping survivors of sexual and ritual abuse. We are in the process of trying to raise funding for a legal defense fund to assist protective parents involved in court cases where the perpetrators are winning custody over 70% of the time. MASA will be celebrating our 20 birthday March 25, 2012.  We are proud of our accomplishments, but there is still so much work to be done.  Every person must become a voice for the children who have no voice and no choice.

Survivorship is an international non-profit organization for survivors of sadistic sexual abuse, ritualistic abuse, mind control, and torture. The organization serves survivors, partners and other allies, therapists, clergy, and pro-survivor activists and advocates. Contact information: Survivorship, FJC,470 27th St., Oakland, Ca 94612 survivorshipstaff@yahoo.com http://www.survivorship.org

The North American Truth & Reconciliation Coalition (NATRC) seeks to raise public awareness about historical and ongoing human rights violations in North America, and works to establish an accurate and truthful historical record of such crimes, including human trafficking, organized ritual crime, child soldiering, mind control experimentation and other forms of torture, in both the private and public spheres. The North American Truth & Reconciliation Coalition (NATRC) PO Box 401 Council Bluffs, IA 51502-0401 http://natrcoalition.org

The Mission of the California Protective Parents Association is to protect children from incest and family violence through research, education and advocacy. California Protective Parents Association PO Box 15284   Sacramento CA 95851-0284 http://www.protectiveparents.com/  cppa001@aol.com

Registration Waivers
Fee waiver application fees are $95.00 for two days and $50 for one day, and are non-refundable. Please do not send fees until your application is accepted. Please add $30 to attend the Friday night early registration, get together and dessert buffet. Applications will not be accepted after July 1, 2012, payment must be made by 7/14/12. Acceptance will partially be contingent on the number of paid applicants. Fee waiver registrees must volunteer for four hours at the conference. Unfortunately, we cannot afford to pay any travel expenses. Please E-mail or regular mail us for a fee waiver application.

Transportation
There is a free shuttle to and from the airport. Hotel parking is available at no charge for those attending the conference. Conference sponsors, etc. assume no responsibility for ground and/or air transportation arrangements. Conference sponsors cannot assume responsibility for additional expense or losses due to illnesses, cancellation of flights, strikes or other causes.

Accommodations
Room rates at the DoubleTree Hotel at Bradley International Airport (CT) are $89 a day for one person (not incl. tax), please mention the SMART 2012 conference to get the special rate. This rate is guaranteed until 7/7/12 or all rooms at the special rate are gone. Call 860-627-5171 for information. Lunch will be free both days for all conference attendees that register before July 20, 2012. The hotel has no information about the conference, other than room information.

Attendance Policy
Survivors should try to bring a support person with them to the conference. Presentation of a picture ID will be required of all conference participants, unless prior arrangements are made. This is for the protection of all participants. Some of the topics discussed may be very heavy for survivors. The conference is educational and not intended as therapy or treatment. Conference sponsors, cosponsor, speakers, organizers and exhibitors assume no responsibility for any reactions resulting from attending our conference. Statements made and materials exhibited and distributed by attendees, speakers and exhibitors are their own and don’t necessarily represent the policies or views of conference sponsors, cosponsor, speakers, exhibitors, organizers or attendees. Children are not permitted to attend the conference. S.M.A.R.T. and its representatives also reserve the right to remove anyone from the conference at any time. Photographing, audio taping and videotaping without written permission from S.M.A.R.T. are prohibited.

Exhibitors
Tables and half tables will be available for exhibitors. All exhibitors and their materials, etc. must be pre-approved. Write for more information. Whole tables are $25, half tables are $15. Take one table fee is $5.00 per item.

Volunteers
S.M.A.R.T. is currently looking for volunteers to help at the conference. Volunteer need to be registered at the conference. Please let S.M.A.R.T. know if you are interested.

Conference Donations
Please consider sponsoring a full or partial registree, so that all are able to attend the conference. Thank you. (Donations are not tax deductible.)

For those interested in helping to promote the conference, please write smartnews@aol.com for a press release to forward to others.

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…crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance”

- Robert Kennedy, Day of Affirmation Address at Cape Town University, 1966